As a chemist by education, with a Ph.D. thesis in 1994 about the conversion of waste to activated carbon and crude oil, I have been working at the Baden-Württemberg State Institute for the Environment, then as a head of a commercial environmental lab, as a process specialist in surface engineering and precious metal recycling, as a technical author and marketing lead, and as a developer of industrial adhesives and thermal interface materials for electric vehicle batteries. From 2019 I am a senior research scientist, project lead, lecturer, and responsible for sustainable polymer applications at the Institute for Microtechnology and Photonics, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences. I enjoy developing and managing conferences and webinars about the future of polymers (www.ost.ch/coffeelectures). My passion is supporting technologies that shape the future, like energy storage, power conversion, sustainable mobility, water management, and recycling, by creating and providing novel and multi-functional polymers and composites. In view of the U.N. strategic development goal no. 12: Responsible consumption and production, I focus on renewable and circular materials that can help preserving the environment and the climate by establishing closed material loops (http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13452.63363). I am highly interested in a world remaining worth living in it for us and our children, open-minded, and always searching for scientific collaboration on innovative solutions to future challenges.