Sven studied Biology in Bochum and received his PhD from Prof. Thomas Happe in 2010. He joined the Department of Experimental Physics at Freie Universität Berlin where he became an independent group leader in 2015 developing various in situ approaches to infrared difference spectroscopy and spectroelectrochemistry. Sven’s expertise is biological PCET in gas-processing metalloenzymes like hydrogenase, nitrogenase, and terminal oxidase. He finished his habilitation in Physical Chemistry in 2021 at Freie Universität Berlin and will continue his career as a Heisenberg fellow of the DFG in 2023.