Dr. Cremers was born August 1970 in Krefeld, Germany. He studied Chemistry at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, where he graduated as Dipl.-Chem in 1995 and received his PhD in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as Postdoc at the CNRS Laboratory LURE in Orsay, France on LIGA process for MEMS technology. In 2000, he joined the group of Ulrich Stimmiing at the TU München, where he led a project on hydrogen generation and later became group manger fuel cells at the associated ZAE Bayern working on direct methanol fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cells. In July 2006, he joined Fraunhofer ICT working as project manger for direct alcohol fuel cells and military fuel cell systems and as group manger fuel cells since January 2010.