Nicolai Kolb studied Chemistry at Free University of Berlin from 2006-2009 and at SUNY Stony Brook in 2009-2010. He then pursued his Ph.D. at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the group of Michael Meier from 2010-2013. After a one-year Postdoc at CAT Catalytic Center of RWTH Aachen, he joined Evonik in 2015 as a lab leader for polyester-polyols and later polybutadienes. In 2020, he switched to the strategic innovation unit CREAVIS at Evonik and is now responsible for the activities concerning debonding on demand.