Rainer Marutzky

Under the mentorship of Professor Karl Wagner, he earned his doctoral degree and subsequently served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Society for Biotechnology in Braunschweig-Stöckheim, specializing in enzyme chemistry.

He successfully completed his habilitation at the Institute of Natural Sciences at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in 1991.

His pioneering research work was predominantly related to the deleterious emissions from the wood-based products and the industrial environment.

[6][7] Marutzky held the position of director of the Fraunhofer WKI from 1989 until December 2009,[8] when he was officially retired.

[10][11][12] In 1988, Marutzky along with Edmone Roffael and Lutz Mehlhorn were awarded by the International Association iVTH for their research work on the topic "Investigations on the formaldehyde emissions from wood-based materials and other materials, and the development of methods to reduce formaldehyde emission potential.