Hamburg University of Technology-Germany

TUHH is a technical university, founded in 1978 in Hamburg, Germany. It currently has a staff consisting of 95 professors, 614 research assistants, and around 6000 students. TUHH is especially focused on engineering sciences; it offers 13 Bachelor and 17 Master of Science study programs in German, in addition to 12 Master of Science study programs in English. TUHH is a global player, and almost every fifth student comes from abroad. Excellence in teaching and research are the university’s prior objectives.
The IUE addresses in depth all questions with regard to energy system analysis, environment technology and environment assessment, as well as economic aspects, e.g. provision process of fossil and renewable energy sources, in production processes and in case of technology-induced environmental processes. The economic and ecological analyses are carried out in the area of conflict of technical, economical, ecological and (eventually) social requirements. The environmental assessment is carried out basing on the life cycle assessment (LCA), the process analysis and the potential analysis.

Martin Kaltschmitt

Professor at Hamburg University of Technology; Head of Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics since 2006;Scientific Managing Director of the German Biomass Research Centre, Leipzig/Germany, 2008-2010 ,Managing Director of the Institute for Energy and Environment in Leipzig/Germany, 2001-2010  ,Head of Department "New Energy Technologies and Technology Assessment" at University of Stuttgart, 1993-2000 , Phd from the University of Stuttgart, 1990

Diploma from the Clausthal University of Technology in Petroleum Engineering, 1986 ,He is the author of several books on renewable sources of energy and energy from biomass as well as numerous papers throughout the field of energy.

 

Christina Wulf

PhD Canididate/Research Assistant at Hamburg University of Technology, since 2010

Diploma from the Hamburg University of Technology in Energy and Environmental Technologies, 2009
Voluntary ecological year, 2003-2004

 

She assesses the future role of hydrogen in the energy system. She analyses the hydrogen production with a life cycle approach as well as the distribution and usage.

 

Iris Gutiérrez

PhD Candidate at Hamburg University of Technology, 2010-2013

Diploma from the University of Bayreuth in Geoecology, 2008

She elaborates new testing methods for fine dust particles from small scale biomass stoves.

 

Verena Schmitt

PhD Candiate/Research Assistant Hamburg University of Technology, since 2010 ,Diploma from the Hamburg University of Technology in Process Engineering, 2010

She analyses the fusibility of fuel ash from herbaceous biomass.