Thomas Eppinger obtained his Diploma degree in Chemical and Process Engineering from Technical University of Berlin. After working for almost three years as technical support engineer at CD-adapco he return to Technical University of Berlin for a PhD at the chair of Chemical & Process Engineering of Prof. Kraume. His doctoral work was on the spatially resolved simulation of fixed bed reactors for the oxidative coupling of methane. Since May 2013, Thomas Eppinger joint CD-adapco again as a technical specialist for reaction engineering in Nurnberg, Germany.