From 1987-1996 Michael Bredol was working at the Philips Research Laboratories in Aachen (Germany) as a research scientist, leading projects on light guiding glass fibres, on luminescent materials for cathode ray tubes and on novel display approaches, as well as on the related colloid chemistry. In 1996 he left Philips to take up a position as professor for Physical Chemistry at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. There he started his own group with independent research on luminescent materials, colloid chemistry, electrochemistry and chemical nanotechnology. In 2008, Michael Bredol was founding member of the Institute for Optical Technologies (IOT) of FH Münster. The IOT then won a major infrastructure grant from Bundesland NRW in 2017 to build an “Optical Center” on the campus in Steinfurt, including personnel and dedicated labs. Throughout his university carreer, Michael Bredol took part in double graduation programmes with various universities in Poland and Ireland. In this context he also participated in a major Erasmus project (“Strategic Partnerships”, partner among others Politechnika Krakowska) to implement best practice didactics across university and country boundaries. Additionally, Michael Bredol attracted research grants from various sources, public as well as private ones. This allowed him to continuously sustain his research group at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, including long-standing international cooperation.