Gunther Kolb was appointed Head of the technology and Catalysis Department at IMM in 2006. The department's activities are focused on hydrogen technology and fuel processing for fuel cells. He studied chemical engineering and obtained his Ph.D. in reaction engineering at the University of Erlangen in 1993, after which he joined the Federal Export Office in Eschborn to work on the implementation of the chemical Weapon Convention. In 1995, he joined GRACE Davison Europe in Worms working as professional in the catalyst Evaluation and Catalyst Development departments. In 2001 he joined IMM and was appointed Leader of the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Process Engineering Group in the same year. he is the author of more than 50 publications in the fields of zeolite catalysis, supercritical fluids and fuel processing in microstructured devices.