Mitarbeitende

- Born on Jan 15th, 1965 in Schlema (Germany)

- Married with Elke Griepentrog

- One child

- Living in Bavaria / Franconia

- since 04/13 Full Professor at TU Darmstadt and Head of the Institute for Power Electron-ics and Control of Drives

- 08/02 – 03/13 Head of R&D departments at Siemens Corporate Technology, latest position: Head of the Technology fields „Power and Actuators“ with ~100 employees worldwide with outposts in the U.S. and China. Responsible for P&L and re-search projects covering Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Power Management and Smart Grid

- 04/96 – 08/02 Project engineer and project leader at Siemens Corporate Technology

- 05/93 – 03/96 PhD candidate at the TU Chemnitz. Dissertation titled: "Lifetime determining parameters of Low Voltage Circuit Breaker”, Completion with the “Dr.-Ing.” degree in 10/96 with „summa cum laude“

- 04/93 – 05/93 Freelancer at TU Chemnitz

- 09/88 – 03/93 Study of power engineering and automation at the TH Zwickau / TU Chem-nitz, Diplom-Ingenieur 03/93 „With Distinction”, received first prizes of nation-wide mathematical competitions of engineering faculties in 1990 and 1991 re-spectively

- 09/84 – 08/88 Military service in a troop air defense platoon

- 06/84 – 07/84 Electrician at SDAG Wismut

- 09/81 – 06/84 Vocational training (electrician) with high school diploma (SDAG Wismut)

- VDE (German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies) since 1993

- IEEE – Power Electronics Society (PELS), IEEE Member since 1996, Senior Member since 2019

- General Chair of the ECCE Europe 2024

- IEEE Chair of the Joint German Chapter IAS, PELS und IES 01/2017 – 12/2020

- Representative at the Faculty Association of Electrical Engineering (FTEI) since 03/2020

- Spokesman of the research profile “Integrated Energy Systems (IES)” at TU Darmstadt since 05/2022

- Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Darm-stadt 10/2014 – 09/2016

- Dean of Studies of interdisciplinary Field of Study “M.Sc. Energy Science and Engineering (ESE)” at TU Darmstadt since 11/2018

- Approx. 100 publications, among them approx. 80 in peer reviewed journals or conferences

- Approx. 75 granted patent families (> 300 single patents) in Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Power Management and Smart Grid