Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Cyron studied mechanical engineering at the
Technical University of Munich. He received several prestigious
scholarships, including one of the German Academic Scholarship
Foundation. Currently, he is a full professor at Hamburg University
of Technology and Director of the Institute for Material Systems
Modeling at the Helmholtz Center Hereon. He is a member of the
Think Tank of the Helmholtz Association of German Research
Centers, Germany's largest public research organization, and one of
the three speakers of the Cluster of Excellence "BlueMat: water-
driven materials". In 2024, he was awarded together with two
colleagues one of the European Research Council's prestigious ERC
Synergy Grants (€10 million).