Christoph J. Brabec received his PhD (1995) in Physical Chemistry from Linz University, Austria joined the group of Alan Heeger at UC Santa Barbara (USA) for a sabbatical. He joined the SIEMENS research labs (project leader) in 2001, Konarka in 2004 (CTO), Erlangen University (FAU - Professor for Material Science) in 2009, ZAE Bayern e.V. (scientific director and board member) in 2010, spokesmen of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films (IZNF) in 2013 and became director at FZ Jülich (IEK11) in 2018. In 2018 he was further appointed as Honorary Professor at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His research interests include all aspects of solution processing organic, hybrid and inorganics semiconductor devices with a strong focus on photovoltaics and renewable energy systems. His combined scientific and technological interests supported the spin-out of several companies. He published over 700 articles, about 100 patents, several books and book chapters and overall received more than 80000 citations. His h-index is over 100 and Thompson Reuters HRC lists him for the last years consecutively as a highly cited researcher.