Fabian Mohr carried out both his undergraduate studies and his Ph.D. in chemistry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. After postdoctoral stays at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and the University of Maryland, USA, he moved to the University of Zaragoza in Spain with a Spanish research scholarship. In 2006 Fabian joined the University of Wuppertal as junior professor and became professor of inorganic chemistry there in 2014. Fabian is editor of a book on gold chemistry and has published more than 130 scientific articles mostly on the chemistry of precious metals and chalcogen ligands, especially those containing selenium. Visiting appointments have taken him to the University of Vienna, the University of Burgos and the Technical University Dortmund.