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.