Alexander Tollkötter studied process engineering at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld since 2004 and completed this with his external bachelor thesis "Determination of the deactivation kinetics of an activated carbon catalyst during phosgene synthesis" at Bayer Technology Services GmbH in Leverkusen. Subsequently, he studied process engineering at the RWTH in Aachen since 2007. He finished his studies with the master thesis "Acid catalytic Diels-Alder reaction using the example of acrolein and butadiene based on renewable raw materials". Since May 2011, he has been a research associate at the Laboratory of Equipment Design.