Brief Biography

1995 – 2001
Studies of Chemical Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

2000/2001
External diploma thesis at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India

2001
Diploma degree (with distinction) in Process Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

2001 – 2005
Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg (Prof. K. Sundmacher)

2005
Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing., summa cum laude) in Process and Systems Engineering at the University of Magdeburg

2006 – 2007
Senior Researcher/Senior Engineer at the Energy Research Center of Samsung SDI Ltd., South Korea

2008 – 2011
Head of Otto Hahn research group Portable Energy Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg

2009 – 2011
Junior-Professor for Portable Energy Systems at the Chair for Process Systems Engineering, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg

Since 2012-2020
Full professor at and head of the Institute for Energy and Process Systems Engineering, Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig

2017
Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering (Prof. Richard Braatz)

Since 2020
Full professor and head of the Institute for Applied Materials – Electrochemical Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe.