Prof. Dr. Rüdiger-A. Eichel

Rüdiger-A. Eichel is an expert for electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering. He holds a chair for Energy Conversion and Storage at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, as full professor. In a joint appointment, he acts as scientific director of the Institute of Energy Technologies (IET-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Prof. Eichel is also founding director of the “Competence Center Sustainable Electrochemical Process Engineering” (ELECTRA) of the State of North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). He acts as coordinator of the national flagship projects “iNEW – Incubator Sustainable Electrochemical Value Chains” and “PHOENIX – Launch Space Power-to-X”, as well as in several projects within the national H2Giga flagship alliance dealing with alkaline, PEM, AEM and high-temperature electrolysis. Prof. Eichel is principal investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Fuel Science Center – Adaptive Conversion Systems for Renewable Energy and Carbon Sources” (FSC). Prof. Eichel earned his diploma in solid-state physics at the University of Cologne, Germany, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry at the Swiss National Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. Prof. Eichel was qualified as a university lecturer (venia legendi) in Physical Chemistry at Darmstadt Technical University with a habilitation thesis on “Nano-scale properties of functional ceramics”. Prof. Eichel is member of the World Energy Council Germany and member of the Managing Board of the German Renewable Energy Research Association (FVEE).