Prof. Michael Eikerling received his Ph.D. in Physics from Technische Universität München (TUM) in 1999. From 2003 to 2019, he was Professor of theoretical chemical physics and electrochemical materials science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Between 2003 and 2013, he held a cross-appointment to the fuel cell institute of Canada’s National Research Council in Vancouver, BC, where he shaped a program in physical modeling of fuel cells. As of May 2019, he was appointed as Professor at RWTH Aachen University and inaugural Director at the new sub-institute for Theory and Computation of Energy Materials (IEK-13) in Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. His research employs a comprehensive spectrum of methods in physical theory and computation, to approach a diverse range of scientific challenges, from fundamental to applied topics. He has made high impact contributions to: transport phenomena at interfaces and in nanopores, theory and computation of electrocatalytic phenomena, self-organization in electrochemical materials, statistical physics of heterogeneous media, porous electrode theory, and modeling and diagnostics of electrochemical devices. Dr. Eikerling has supervised > 60 highly qualified personnel, including 22 PhD students and 25 postdoctoral fellows. He has published over 150 journal articles (h-index 40), 8 book chapters and 1 textbook. He has delivered 160 invited presentations (including 33 keynote and 8 plenary talks, and 65 seminars). In 2017, he was awarded the Alexander Kuznetsov Prize for Theoretical Electrochemistry of the International Society of Electrochemistry, in recognition of his groundbreaking work on modeling polymer electrolyte fuel cells, with an emphasis on water management, transport and electrocatalysis. He has served the electrochemical community as division chair (Div. 7) of the ISE and Canada section chair of the ECS. He has directed or (co-)organized 20 conferences, workshops and symposia. He sits on the technical steering committee of the HySA Catalysis centre of excellence in South Africa. He is a member of the editorial boards of Scientific Reports and a topical editor of the journal Electrocatalysis. Dr. Eikerling has collaborated extensively with partners in industry, including among others Nissan, AFCC, Ballard, Bosch, 3M, VW, Greenlight Innovation, AVL.