Prof. Dr. Maximilian Fichtner

Nanostructured Materials for Energy Applications:

• nanocrystalline materials for hydrogen storage and batteries
• mechanical and chemical synthesis methods (nanoscale building blocks and nano-composites)
• thermodynamics/kinetics of nanocomposites
• size effects in nanoconfined energy materials
• conversion materials for nanostructured electrodes in batteries

Functions

• Scientific Director of CELEST (Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm-Karlsruhe) - an R&D platform comprising 46 working groups at Ulm and Karlsruhe (2018)
• Spokesman of the German Excellence Cluster “Energy Storage Beyond Lithium” (POLiS) (2018)

• Vice Executive Director at Helmholtz Institute Ulm (October 2018 – present)

• Executive Director at Helmholtz Institute Ulm (June 2015 – October 2018)
• Member of the core group of the European Flagship activity “BATTERY2030+”

• Co-ordinator of the FET-OPEN project “LiRichFCC” in HORIZON2020
• Member of the Steering Committee of the KIT Center "Energy"

• Vice Executive Director at Helmholtz Institute Ulm (July 2014 – June 2015)

• Head of Research Group “Solid State Chemistry” and “Nanomaterials & Nano-/Mikrostructures” at HIU (May 2013 – present)
• Chairman (2013) of the GORDON Research Conference on Hydrogen-Metal Systems in Il Giocco/Italy
• Vice-Chairman (2011) of the GORDON Research Conference on Hydrogen-Metal Systems

• Spokesman of KIT Topic "Storage and Distribution"
• Co-ordinator of EU-RTD project "NANOHy" and the EU-ERA-NET project "Hy-CO" in the 7th FP
• Co-ordinator of the "German-Chinese Sustainable Fuel Partnership" (GCSFP)
• Member of the International Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems

• Head of Working Group "Energy Storage Systems" at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2001 – present)

• Group Leader "Micro Process Engineering" at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (1997 –2000)

• Assistant to the Board of Directors at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (1994 – 1997)  

Teaching Experience

• Professor for Solid State Chemistry at the University Ulm (May 2013 – present)

Awards

• Project Prize (2010) of the International Energy Agency (IEA-HIA)