Werner Bonrath studied Chemistry at the University of Münster (Germany) and obtained his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck Institute for Kohlenforschung in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr (Germany), followed by habilitation and venia legendi in Technical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (Germany). Currently he is working at DSM (Chemical Sciences, Nutritional Sciences) in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland on developing new catalysts for fine chemicals such as vitamins. He published over 150 articles, chapters and patents. In 2013 Werner Bonrath was awarded with the KGF-SCS Senior Industrial Investigator Award. He is a lecturer at the University of Jena (Germany) and at the University of Basel.