Günter Georg Hoffmann received his diploma in chemistry and biochemistry in 1978 at Bochum University, Germany, where in 1983 he received his PhD. Postdoc positions brought him at the end of 1983 to Essen University and in the years 1985-1986 to the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry, Mülheim. 1986 he came back to Essen as assistant professor, where 1989 he won the Bennigsen-Foerder award of the Minister of Science and Education of Northrhine-Westfalia. 2004 he was appointed visiting professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is the owner and CEO of Hoffmann Datentechnik HHD.