• Born in 1961
• Manager of ‘Future Fuels and Drives Network’, EnergyAgency North Rhine-Westphalia since 2005

Education

• Study of chemical engineering at Dortmund University; focus on energy management, industrial organic chemistry, fluid engineering
• Study for a PhD in energy process technology/fluid mechanics at Dortmund University

Employment

• Research assistant at Dortmund University, project leader industry (optimisation of DENOx reactors)
• Project leader main department of technology, Stahlwerk Dortmund, Krupp Hoesch Stahl AG
• Head of Division environmental management and chemical process engineering for disposal engineering at Institut für Bodensanierung, Wasser- und Luftanalytik, Iserlohn
• Project leader Management Consultant, IMPAC, Ltd, Dublin
• Project leader/senior consultant agiplan GmbH, Muelheim
• Manager of ‘Fuels and Drives of the Future Network’, EnergyAgency North Rhine-Westphalia, in contract Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Deputy Manager Model Region Electric Mobility Rhine-Ruhr

Field of expertise

• Management of ‘Future Fuels and Drives Network’ with focus on alternative fuels, innovative engines and electric mobility
• Strategies for introduction alternative fuels (including manufacturing) and engines of car fleets
• Coordination of environmental monitoring research for model region electric mobility program of the BMVI
• Coordination of the regional innovation network ‘model region material flow Rhineland’ (with CLIB2021, DGAW)
• German – Chinese exchange in alternative drives and fuels sincs 2006 Co-operation NRW Wuhan