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

Since 2021
Director of the Branch Lab “Circular Carbon Technologies” in Freiberg (part of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems - IMWS)

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 exploratory project portfolio, sustainable competence development for syngas production, metal, cement, glass and CO2

2017 – 2019: Pole Manager Partial Oxidation Processes
Deployment of agile management methods, development of new R&D center communication and identification, shift to product-focused working

2017: Short-Term Assignment Air Liquide Fuzhou, China
Commissioning of 150,000 Nm³/h H2 production gasifier island

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

2013 – 2019: R&D Project Manager
Coordination of interdisciplinary teams in Frankfurt, Shanghai and Paris

• Entrained-flow gasification: fuel blending, online fuel analysis, operation and lab data monitoring
• Biomass gasification: H2 and Bio-SNG production from biomass and waste plastics, biomass pyrolysis and bio-slurry entrained-flow gasification 
• O2-based syngas: NG-POx, autothermal reforming (ATR) and oil gasification (MPG)
• Lurgi fixed-bed gasification: feedstock analysis and evaluation, modeling, campaigns in China, development of proprietary fuel tests

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

2012 – 2013: Research Engineer
Syngas Production team member for solid fuel gasification

2012
Doctorate, PhD in Energy Process Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Title "Modeling-based evaluation of gasification processes for high-ash coals“

2006 – 2012
Research Associate at the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (IEC), TU Bergakademie Freiberg, since 2009 Head of Department “Gasifier Development”

2004 – 2005
Visiting Scholar at University of Cincinnati, USA (6 months)
Topic "Production of increased concentrations of H2 from coal gasification"

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

• Air Liquide’s delegate at the World Economic Forum for Waste Processing in the Low-Carbon Emission Technologies initiative
• German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology
• Organization Committee International Freiberg Conference and International Conference on Coal Science & Technology
• Reviewer for international scientific journals (Fuel, Fuel Processing Tech., …)

2006
Georgius-Agricola-Medal

2006
Helmut-Erich-Rammler Prize 

2001 – 2006
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

2004 – 2006
German Academic Scholarship Foundation