Since the beginning of October, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harry Hoster has taken over the Chair of Energy Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE). He succeeds Prof. Dr. Angelika Heinzel, who retired due to age. As a result, he will also become the new Scientific Director at the The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Center (ZBT) on the UDE campus in Duisburg.

"I am looking forward to the new task of providing scientific support to the ZBT. The institute has an excellent reputation among experts and, with its dedicated scientists and engineers, stands for excellent basic and applied research in its core areas of hydrogen, fuel cells and batteries," says Hoster.

ZBT Managing Director Dr. Peter Beckhaus also looks forward to the collaboration. "With Prof. Hoster, we are gaining a scientific director who has an excellent scientific reputation, combines diverse experience from industry and science at an international level, and will therefore advance the ZBT with great commitment," comments the managing director.

Hoster studied physics at the University of Bonn. Starting in 1996, he completed his doctorate on anode materials for methanol fuel cells at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. In 2003, after a postdoctoral stay in São Paulo, he established a research group for surface science and electrochemistry at the University of Ulm. After his habilitation in physical chemistry in 2010, he took over a W2 professorship at the Institute of Technical Electrochemistry at TUM. In 2011, he became scientific director of TUM CREATE in Singapore. In 2013, he received an appointment as visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2015, he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Hoster was most recently Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of Energy Lancaster at Lancaster University.