I am the Director of the Institute for Thermal Energy Technology and Safety (ITES) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the appointed Professor for Hydrogen-based Energy Systems.

Our mission is to enable the clean energy transition in heat, hydrogen, and resilience!

My previous experience includes a faculty position at The University of New Mexico (UNM), postdoctoral positions at Caltech / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as Stanford's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) and its Silicon Valley spin-off Cascade Technologies Inc..

Before, I have been a Research Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology, Spacecraft Department in Göttingen, where I did numerical research on combustion and injection in rocket engines, and hypersonic flow / flow control.

I received my Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree from the University of Stuttgart (Dissertation) and the Dipl.-Ing. (MSc) from RWTH Aachen University in Germany. I spent a year as a Graduate Research Trainee at the University of Tennessee Space Institute.

Like any engineer, I am excited about my work and thus more than happy to discuss it. If you want to find out more, send me an email, or visit one of my online profiles.