Since 2021
Director Energy Process Engineering of the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Professor for Energy Process Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Since 2023
Head of department Energy and Process Engineering (Freiberg) – Circular Carbon Technologies – Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS 

2021 – 2022 
Head of Business Unit (Freiberg) Circular Carbon Technologies (KKT) – Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS

Since 2023
Deputy Director of the Center for Efficient High Temperature Processes and Materials Conversion (ZeHS), Freiberg

2012 – 2021
AIR LIQUIDE Forschung und Entwicklung GmbH, Frankfurt am Main

2020 – 2021 International Senior Expert Gas Production - Gasification

2019 – 2021 Scientific Director Combustion and Syngas Production
Global strategy and management of R&D portfolio for business units syngas production, metals, cement and glass 

2017 – 2019 Pole Manager Partial Oxidation Processes
Head of R&D group for oxygen-based syngas production

2017 Short-Term Assignment Air Liquide Fuzhou, China
Participation in commissioning of Gasifier Island at an industrial complex for the production of 150,000 Nm³/h of hydrogen

2017 – 2020 International Expert Gas Production - Gasification
International Due Diligence for waste/biomass gasification, methane splitting into hydrogen

2013 – 2019 R&D Project Manager
Project coordinator of interdisciplinary, international teams

• Entrained-flow gasification: fuel blending, online fuel analysis, operation and lab data monitoring, performance testing
• Biomass gasification: Hydrogen and Bio-SNG production, biomass pyrolysis and bio-slurry entrained-flow gasification
• Waste gasification: syngas production from plastic waste (Chemical Recycling) 
• Oxygen-based syngas: GasPOx, autothermal reforming (ATR) and oil gasification (MPG)
• Lurgi fixed-bed gasification: feedstock analysis and evaluation, modeling, campaigns in China, development of fuel tests

2014 – 2016 Senior Research Engineer 
Local Expert Gasification and Syngas Production

2012 – 2013 Research Engineer
Employee in the Syngas Production department for solid fuel gasification

2012 Dissertation
PhD in Process Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
PhD Thesis „Modeling-based evaluation of gasification processes for high-ash coals“

2006 – 2012 Research Associate
Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (IEC), Chair of Energy Process Engineering and Thermal Waste Treatment, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2009–2012 Head of Department “Gasifier Development”

2004 – 2005 Practical Semester
University of Cincinnati, USA
Topic "Production of increased concentrations of hydrogen from coal gasification"

2001 – 2006 Academic studies
Diploma Energy Process Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Thesis „Mathematical Modeling of two-phase flow on the example of a circulating fluidized bed gasifier“