In order to improve his English, René Pöschmann left his home in Germany at the age of 16 and moved to a boarding school in Gloucestershire (Great Britain), where he also completed his sixth form. In his second year, he was not only appointed deputy head of house of his boarding house, but was also a respected member of the first rugby team of the collage. Following boarding school in the UK, he began an apprenticeship as a ship mechanic at the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, with worldwide deployment on container ships in engine and bridge watch. Particularly, the time spent in the engine room provided the foundation for his subsequent career as an engineer. Upon completion of this apprenticeship, he studied Energy and Process Engineering at the TU Berlin. During that time, he gained work experience through various working student positions at MAN Diesel & Turbo, Siemens, and EAM Software, a digitization consulting firm. After obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees, he began his PhD at the Process Dynamics and Operations Group of the TU Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jens-Uwe Repke. During that period, he devised, procured, constructed, and commissioned a measuring cell to characterize structured packing. He planned, executed, and evaluated experiments utilizing that measuring cell to ascertain the fluid dynamics and separation performance of structured packings under distillation conditions, with the objective of benchmarking this measuring cell. Subsequently, he proposed how the obtained outcomes from the measuring cell could be utilized in the design or retrofit of columns. Furthermore, he presented his results at national and international scientific conferences, as the AIChE annual meeting 2023 in Orlando. Additionally, he published his results in two articles in the peer-reviewed journal Separation and Purification Technology. Following his time at the Process Dynamics and Operations Group of the TU Berlin, he subsequently joined Sulzer Chemtech's R&D lab in Winterthur as a Senior R&D Engineer to assist in the development of mass transfer products, specifically structured packings and column internals, for utilization in distillation processes.