Marcus Waurick graduated in Mathematics with minor in Physics at TU Dresden in 2009. During his first employment at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, he finished his PhD in 2011 on homogenisation theory and accepted a position at the Institute for Analysis at TU Dresden later that year. In 2015, he took up a research post at the University of Bath, and in 2016, he completed his habilitation thesis. The following year, he became Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Strathclyde where he was honored with the Research Excellence Award in 2018. In 2020, he accepted a position at TU Hamburg as research associate, and in November of the same year, he became deputy professor at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Since April 2021, he has been a University Professor at TU Bergakademie Freiberg and held the chair for Partial Differential Equations. He has contributed to more than 70 research articles and 3 books, with his work spanning partial differential equations, evolutionary equations, operator theory, numerical analysis, homogenisation, control theory, and functional analysis.