Maximilian Lackner holds a master's degree in physical and analytical chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. from Vienna University of Technology, Austria. As post-doc, he carried out spectroscopic investigations in optical engines at the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. His main research interest is the use of lasers in chemistry, applied to combustion and ignition. Dr. Lackner is an expert in laser ignition and tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), where he also holds a patent. Apart from his position as senior researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering at Vienna University of Technology, he is founder and chief technical officer of the company ProcessEng Engineering GmbH, also in Vienna.