The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is the Research University in the Helmholtz Association, and being one of eleven “Universities of Excellence” in Germany, the KIT combines a long university tradition with a large scale national research. More than 9,000 employees cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in natural sciences, engineering, economics, and humanities and social sciences. In the Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT), founded in 2011, the focus of our work is the sustainable utilization of alternative feedstocks and their conversion into energy carrier intermediates.