CONSULTANT to the battery industry with customers in Europe, USA, Canada, and China since 2014

MANAGEMENT of the development and manufacturing of battery materials for Clariant AG from 2011 to 2014

GENERAL MANAGER of GAIA Akkumulatorenwerke in Nordhausen, Germany, a Li-ion battery start-up, from 2004 to 2010. The company is now operating as EAS Batteries GmbH

Member of the MANAGING BOARD of IONITY AG, a manufacturer of Li-ion batteries for portable equipment, from 2002 to 2003

Manager Li-battery development at DURACELL INC. in Boston, Mass., from 1996 to 2001

Manager Li-ion battery development at the VARTA Research Center in Kelkheim, Germany, from 1992 to 1996

Co-founder and later Director of R&D of MOLI ENERGY Ltd in Vancouver, Canada. Moli was the first company that commercialized Li-batteries and was successful in the Japanese market.

• UNIVERSTY OF BRITISH COLUBIA, Vancouver, Canada, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN, PhD, solid state physics
• UNIVERSITÄT GÖTTINGEN, master’s degree, theoretical physics
• IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE in lithium-ion battery technology, its manufacturing, and markets
• INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE in the battery industry, especially China, Korea, Japan, USA, and Europe
• MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE with START-Ups and large organizations
• Holder of over ten PATENTS, scientific PUBLICATIONS, invited SPEAKER at international conferences
• Business fluent in German and English

• Start-ups and established players of material production and battery manufacturing
• Evaluation of new battery technologies for companies and organizations
• Consulting managers and investors in the battery industry
• Consulting government ministries at the federal and state level in Germany

• Focus on Battery Technology

(Lithium-ion technology and its successors)

• Research and Development of Energy Storage Systems

(materials, cells, and battery systems) 

• Management of Innovation

(Innovation protection, exploitation, and commercialization)

• Evaluating New Technologies

(Technical challenges, scale-up and cost)

• Partnering for Technology Development

(Universities, government institutions, industry)

• Applications and Markets

(Identification of markets and market entry for new technologies)

• Management of Start-ups

(Planning of research and development, advisory board)