Matthias Meier-Grüll is member of the institute for Plant Sciences at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Leader of the Agri-Horti-PV activities at the research center. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Nanotechnology at the Technical University of Aachen in 2009. After his Post Doc he became Group Leader at the institute of Photovoltaics in Jülich in 2013. In 2015 he became Head of the department of Scientific Coordination at the PV institute where he was responsible for strategy development, third party funding and resource management as science manager. Finally, he changed to the institute of plant sciences as project leader of the first APV 2.0 project in Jülich in the frame of the BioökonomieREVIER initiative and Hub-Lead “Bioeconomy meets Energy”, wherein he develops and runs energy projects with bioeconomy background. Together with the Agri-PV team Matthias actually runs six Agri-PV projects with different focus on e.g. soy bean growth or semitransparent PV modules.