President

• Overall direction and coordination of all areas of operations
• University development and strategy
• Strategic planning
• Professorial appointments
• Public relations, marketing (including event management and alumni liaison)
• Fundraising
• Strategic control, including the statistics section of Admin Dept. 2
• Research centers
• Quality management
• All other matters not explicitly assigned to Vice-Presidents

1979	Born in Zittau, Germany, on July 7
2002 – 2007	Student of electrical engineering, specializing in environmental technology/renewable energy, in Berlin
2006 – 2007	Project coordinator in the field of solar cell materials recovery at BAM, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, for the EU project RESOLVED – Recovery of Solar Valuable Materials, Enrichment and Decontamination
2007 – 2010	Research assistant at the spin-off company Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG in Berlin, responsible for the development of methanol fuel cell and electrolysis systems with several patents, production of demonstration models and laboratory configuration for quality assurance
2010	Doctorate on “Hybride Duennschicht-Solarzellen aus mesoporoesem Titandioxid und konjugierten Polymeren (Hybrid thin-film solar cells comprising mesoporous titanium dioxide and conjugated polymers)”, Soft Matter Physics Group, University of Potsdam
2012 – 2020	Manager for research on the executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft headquarters; deputy head of the Materials and Life Sciences department; general coordinator for materials research of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, responsible for steering key interinstitutional projects (>EUR 10 million), development of hub strategies and specialist regions, and analysis of technology development and research market for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and its institutes; author of the research brochure Kompetenz für das Wasserstoff-Zeitalter on readiness for the age of hydrogen; key initiator of the Fraunhofer Hydrogen Network
2019 – 2022	Deputy head of the Fraunhofer IMWS, the Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems, in Halle (Saale)
2022 – 2023	• Acting head of the Fraunhofer IWES, Institute for Wind Energy Systems: The development and operation of three hydrogen labs at Fraunhofer gave rise to a first digital network of infrastructure with capacities for testing and certifying the necessary >25 MW electrolysis and fuel cell systems. • Deputy head of institute and head of section for hydrogen and carbon process technology at IMWS, the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems, and responsible for establishing the green hydrogen value chain and technology transfer to fields of application in central Germany • Member of the board of Hydrogen Power Storage & Solutions East Germany e. V., an association concerned with the entire value chain of electricity-based hydrogen applications and structural change in central Germany • Deputy spokesperson for the Fraunhofer Hydrogen Network, which connects around 30 Fraunhofer institutes in one of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s six strategic research areas
Nov. 2023 – present	President of TU Clausthal