2019 SVC TechCon

Christoph Herrmann

Technische Universität Braunschweig,


Christoph Herrmann is university professor for Sustainable Manufacturing & Life Cycle Engineering and co-director of IWF, Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, Technische Universitat Braunschweig. After his doctor degree (Dr.-Ing.) in 2003 he worked in production engineering in 2008 and was appointed associate professor in 2011. In 2013, he became full professor. As a company’s founder (2002 - 2007) he has transferred tools and services to support design for environment into the electric/electronic and automotive industry. From 2005 to 2008, he was also scientific director of KERP Center of Excellence Environment & Electronics, Vienna. From Aug.t 2009 to Feb. 2013, he was scientific director and member of the Automotive Research Center Niedersachsen. Since 2009 he leads the Joint German-Australian Research Group on “Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Engineering” together with Prof. Sami Kara from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Since 2012, he is Visiting SIMTech Fellow at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. Since 2018, Prof. Herrmann also leads the internationalization program of the Open Hybrid LabFactory (OHLF). OHLF is a Research Campus supported by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) and organized as Public-Private Partnership for Innovation. Prof. Herrmann is also member of the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig, an open research infrastructure to investigate and develop electrochemical storage devices from laboratory to pilot plant scale. He is member of Aeronautics Research Centre where he focuses on life cycle engineering to foster energy system transformation in aviation. Within the Center of Pharmaceutical Engineering he coordinates the work of the cross-sectional group on pharmaceutical manufacturing engineering.

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