FRAUNHOFER ISE CALLAB PV CELLS - Key Persons
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- Administrative Assistant to Prof. Dr. Henning / Fraunhofer ISE
Arne Groß received his master's degree in physics from the University of Freiburg 2014. Since 2016, he is pursuing his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Moritz Diehl and Prof. Dr. Christof Wittwer. His research interests include the development of intelligent control strategies for energy systems in the smart grid considering uncertainties in forecasts for renewable energy generation. He focuses on implementation of efficient optimization algorithms for stochastic systems and applications to real life use cases arising due to the transformation of the energy system to renewable energy sources. Arne Groß maintains the optimization-based Energy Management Software for Battery systems as well as Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure.
Arne Surmann finished his master's degree in Renewable Energies at the University of Applied Science Cologne in 2018 after completing his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Mannheim in 2014. During his bachelor period (2011-2014) he worked for Siemens with a major focus on HVDC converter platforms connecting offshore wind parks. Since 2017 Arne works at Fraunhofer ISE, starting as a master student quantifying the flexibility demand of residential districts. Today Arne works in the department of Smart Grids. He develops decentralized agent-based energy management systems for renewable energy communities. In addition, he is the leading developer of the synPRO toolfor the generation of load-and production profiles for residential and commercial buildings including control schemes for various flexibility resources such as heat pumps, battery storage and electric vehicles.
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- Production of Photovoltaics in Europe. Opportunities and Challenges
- R & D and Innovations for Photovoltaics
- Research on High - Efficiency Tandem Solar Cells on Silicon at Fraunhofer ISE
- Research on Multi - Junction Solar Cells at Fraunhofer ISE
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- Administrative Assistant / Fraunhofer ISE
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- Next Generation High Throughput Production Processes & Inline Characterization for Si Solar Cells
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- Project Manager, Building Systems Technology, Division Heat and Buildings
Arnulf Dinkel studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT.
He has successfully applied all kind of renewable energy techniques and efficiency tools during his career as architect. With an extensive operational and technical expertise gained in a number of senior executive roles, he joins Fraunhofer in 2010. His current work is focused on energy efficiency measures in residential and non-residential building stocks and the related needs for efficient components, related controls and the transfer into digital environments. Amongst other projects he contributed the EU project Mapping and analyses of the current and future (2020-2030) heating / cooling fuel deployment and the BMWi project Wissenschaftliche Begleitforschung - EnEff.Gebäude.2050.
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- Contact Press / Media
- Project Manager, Buildings Systems Technology, Division Heat and Buildings
Axel Oliva studied Energy and Environmental Engineering at Technical University of Hamburg TUHH, Germany and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. He graduated evaluating the system performance for a new developed design of a concentrating solar-thermal process heat collector at TUHH in 2009. Since that time he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg i.Br., Germany where he joined the department of Energy Efficient Buildings and is working as project manager. Here, he is dedicated to thermal systems and focuses the broad range from component design, hydraulics as well as control strategies for efficient building supply systems and its integration into district heating networks and the power grid. He is conducting monitoring campaigns, and setting up numerical system simulation models that are calibrated by the analysed measured data or obtained from test laboratories. Evaluating the thermal and power-grid operable performance of systems leads him furthermore to analyse the entire product chain of building supply systems as well, especially by economic aspects like the indirect costs. He is furthermore engaged in process analysis of constructions to evaluate performance gaps and develop relieable and rational solutions with a high level of quality assurance for planning, installation, comissioning and operation of building supply systems.
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- Group Process Development, Division Hydrogen Technologies / More Info
Florian Rümmele studied Chemical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe). Heterogeneous Catalysis, Fuels in particular Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis and Computational Fluid Dynamics had been the focus of his studies before starting his Diploma project at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg. His (Dipl.-Ing.) diploma thesis was part of a joint project with Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, a process to gain aromatic basic chemicals from biomass was being developed and tested on a laboratory scale.
In 2014 he joined the development of the CatVap® technology focusing on emission reduction. Within the internal Fraunhofer programs INNOVATOR and FDays® the scientific findings were transferred to a strategic patent portfolio. Fraunhofer ISE is now aiming to integrate CatVap® in marketable products. Together with industry partners a new heating measure for exhaust aftertreatment systems was developed to fulfill strictest future emission limits for commercial vehicles:
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- Head of Group Building Performance Optimization, Department Energy Efficient Buildings, Division Heat and Buildings
Nicolas Réhault studied acoustical, thermal and lighting engineering at the Ecole Supérieure d´Ingénieurs de Poitiers. From 1998 until 2009, he has worked as a project engineer in the fields of building acoustics, heating, ventilation and air conditioning in companies located in France, Germany and Switzerland. In 2009, he started as a scientist at Fraunhofer ISE and has been leading the group Building Performance Optimization since 2012. He is coordinator of several German and international research projects in the field of energy efficiency in buildings. His research focus is on the development of practicable methods and tools that support the digitalization and the optimization of the operation of buildings.
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- Research Assistant / Fraunhofer ISE
- Research Assistant, Division Heat and Buildings
- Research Assistant, Division Heat and Buildings / Research Focus
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- Researcher, Energy Management and Networks, Division Power Solutions
Wolfgang Biener is working since 2012 at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. His current research topics are operation control of electrical grids and optimal grid planning. Operation control is divided into two main fields communication based optimal control and robust decentralized control without communication. Grid planning is done applying optimization algorithms on the use case.
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- Head of Group Thermal Processes / Fraunhofer ISE
- Head of Group Thermal Processes, Division Photovoltaics
- Head of Group Thermal Processes, Division Photovoltaics / Research Focus
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- Project Manager, Energy System Analysis, Division Power Solutions / Research Focus
- Project Manager, Energy Systems and Energy Economics, Department Energy System Analysis / Fraunhofer ISE
I am a trustee at Fraunhofer ISE because:
Fraunhofer ISE is one of the world's most important institutes for the solar industry and the exchange with industry is very important.
My background is:
Physicist, solar expert.
I am a trustee at Fraunhofer ISE because:
Fraunhofer ISE creates paraxis-appropriate knowledge for the energy transition, often in cooperation with housing companies.
My background is:
I work in the GdW for the housing industry and deal with the theory and practice of energy-efficient refurbishment, the use of climate-neutral energy, building operation and building control as well as user influence for rented apartment buildings.
I am a trustee at Fraunhofer ISE because:
In my work in the innovation department at E.ON, I work on new topics, ideas and trends and develop innovative solutions.
A connection between science and business is particularly important here: how do you transfer scientific findings to business, how do you take customer/market needs into account in scientific work and how can you work together?
I strengthen this connection through my work as a curator.
My background is:
Energy industry, electromobility
Gas distribution networks/gas storage
Energy customer solutions
green gases
RWE/ innogy/ E.ON
After studying law and completing his legal clerkship, Dr. Markus Zirkel initially worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Public Law at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Hermann Reichold at the Faculty of Economics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt in Ingolstadt. He completed his doctorate under Prof. Dr. Hanns Ullrich in the field of intellectual property and copyright law. In 2002/2003 he was a lecturer at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.
He is an external scientific member of the Research Center for Research Promotion and Technology Transfer at TU Dresden and a member of the Export Control Working Group of DICO e.V.. He has held various positions at Fraunhofer and has been Head of the Legal & Compliance Directorate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft since 2022. Publications of various specialist articles on the legal framework conditions of research and development projects round off his profile.
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- Contact Press / Media
- Head of Department Characterization and Simulation, Division Photovoltaics / Research Focus
Munib Amin heads the Research & Technology department and is Managing Director of E.ON Group Innovation GmbH. His aim is to bridge the gap between science and industry with cooperative research and development projects. Before joining E.ON, he held various positions at RWE and innogy, most recently as head of the central market analysis team at innogy. Munib Amin graduated in physics from the University of Kiel in 2004 and received his doctorate from the University of Düsseldorf in 2009. During his subsequent work in the energy industry, he led the exercises for a lecture on energy economics and technologies at RWTH Aachen University for 10 years. In 2023 he was a guest lecturer at Stanford University. Munib Amin has several mandates in the academic environment and is a member of the board of the IERE research association.
Fraunhofer ISE is dedicated to developing solutions to master the energy and heating transition, in my view one of the central challenges facing humanity. My background is: CEO Vaillant Group, manufacturer of heat pumps and gas heating systems
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- Head of Group Coating Technology and Systems, Division Energy Technologies and Systems
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- Engineer for Physical Technology / Biomedical Technology
I am a trustee at Fraunhofer ISE because:
the energy transition is one of the greatest tasks of our time with regard to climate targets and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Fraunhofer ISE in particular are making significant contributions to this.
My background is:
Engineer for physical technology/biomedical technology and electrical engineering with a focus on microelectronics and sensor technology.
Fraunhofer Bessel Prize winner Dr. Jasna Jankovic conducts research at Fraunhofer ISE
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- Fellow Mrinal Madas Researches Sustainable Urban Development at Fraunhofer ISE
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- Development of the Future Energy System and a Possible Role of Nuclear Fusion
- Editorial
Development of the Future Energy System and a Possible Role of Nuclear Fusion
Henning, Hans-Martin
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- Schüle Young Scientist Award for His Development of a High - Efficiency PV Hybrid Concentrator Module
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- Development and Modelling of Highly - Efficient PVT Collectors With Low - Emissivity Coatings
Development and modelling of highly-efficient PVT collectors with low-emissivity coatings
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- Development of Boron Emitters for Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact Solar Cells With Current - Assisted Contact Formation
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- Development and Characterization of Multifunctional PassDop Layers for Local P - Laser Doping
Development and characterization of multifunctional PassDop layers for local p+-laser doping
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- Director / Fraunhofer ISE
- Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy
- Director, Division Institute Directorate / Research Focus
The main areas of research of Prof. Dr. Andreas Bett include solar silicon material, epitaxial growth of Si and III-V semiconductors, development of characterisation techniques for advanced solar cell devices and the fabrication of solar cells. Furthermore, he develops concentrator module and systems and is involved in field testing.
He is also co-founder of the company Concentrix Solar which manufactures and installs CPV systems. In addition he is active member in the IEC TC82 WG7 for standardisation of CPV technologies and member of the European PV Platform WG3. He has organised several international conferences and served in many scientific committees.
Prof. Dr. Andreas W. Bett is director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany and operates the chair »Solar Energy - Materials and Technologies» in the Faculty of Mathe-matics and Physics, University of Freiburg. He received the Dipl. degree in physics and the state exami-nation in physics and mathematics from the University of Freiburg, Germany in 1988 and 1989, respec-tively and the PhD degree in physics from the University of Konstanz, Germany in 1992. He joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, ISE in 1987. In 1993 he became the head of the group »III-V - epitaxy and solar cells«. From 2007 until 2016 he was division director »Materials - Solar Cells and Technology« and from 2009 until 2016 he was deputy director of the institute. In 2017 he was ap-pointed director of the institute.
the research and development of technologies and materials for renewable energies is one of the most important challenges of our time for research and industry and we can work together to develop sustainable, future-proof solutions. My background is: Chemist and materials scientist with a focus on the development of circular materials and sustainable production technology.
I am a trustee at Fraunhofer ISE because:
it strengthens the link to INATECH and the work of the ISE is very exciting.
My background is:
Industrial engineer, interface between technology and business, especially electricity grids and electricity markets.
Together, we can make a substantial contribution to the success of the energy transition. My background is: Managing Director of the Baden-Württemberg Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) and Head of the Energy Policy and Energy Sources division at ZSW Professor of »Innovation Management in Energy Systems« at the University of Stuttgart
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- Director / Fraunhofer ISE
- Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy
- Director, Division Institute Directorate / Research Focus
Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Henning's research focus lies in building energy technology and energy system analysis. He plays a leading role in the development of computer models for the comprehensive simulation and optimization of complex energy systems. Their results are applied for developing national / regional energy systems with consideration of all energy sources and end-use sectors.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Henning is Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany and Professor for "Solar Energy Systems" at the Institute of Sustainable Systems Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg. He is chairman of the Expert Council on Climate Issues (appointed by the German Government), member of the Advisory Board for the Energy Research Program of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, member of the acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering) and member of the board of directors of the academy project "Energy systems of the future". Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Henning is chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Energy Technologies and Climate Protection and member of the presidential council of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
Prof. Dr. Henning obtained his PhD in physics at Oldenburg University in 1993. Since 1994, he has been working at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg. In 2014 he was appointed Professor of Technical Energy Systems at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT and in 2017 Director of Fraunhofer ISE.
Henning's research focus lies in building energy technology and energy system analysis. He plays a leading role in the development of computer models for the comprehensive simulation and optimization of complex energy systems. Their results are applied for developing national / regional energy systems with consideration of all energy sources and end-use sectors.
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- Development and Process Optimization of a P - IBC Solar Cell With PECVD Deposited Passivated Contacts
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- I Am a Trustee at Fraunhofer ISE Because
Fraunhofer ISE can make an important contribution to climate protection and the success of the energy transition with its research focus and innovative projects. My background is: Head of the Climate, Sustainability, Resource Efficiency, Circular Economy Department at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector.
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- Consultant at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action
- I Am a Trustee at Fraunhofer ISE Because
The implementation of the energy transition in Germany is not only necessary for climate protection reasons, but also offers economic potential. Research funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection supports necessary innovations in the field of energy transition technologies and thus mitigates development risks. My background is: Consultant at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (Division IIB5, Energy Research - Project Funding and Market Preparation; Key Technologies of the Energy Transition) Graduate engineer in energy technology and process engineering (Technical University of Berlin)
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- Administrative Assistant to Prof. Dr. Bett / Fraunhofer ISE