Innovation is industrial

Dr. Sebastian Stießel is Senior Business Development Manager at Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Oberhausen. He is responsible for the transfer of developments from applied research to industry, particularly in the areas of hydrogen, Power-to-X and Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCUS). He also heads the Cross-industrial Production Systems working group, which deals with the systemic evaluation, modeling and simulation of complex energy and industrial processes. Since the beginning of 2021, he has also been managing director of the office of the leading industrial innovation cluster, or SPIN for short.

Dr. Stießel studied industrial engineering with a specialization in energy and process engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen and during this time worked in various industrial companies including ThyssenKrupp, Babcock and Bilfinger.

After his studies, he received his doctorate in engineering. at the Ruhr University Bochum at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with Fraunhofer UMSICHT on the topic of “Multi-criteria evaluation of cross-industrial systems”. As a research assistant, he worked on the projects Carbon2Chem®, Power-to-X Bad Langensalza and enerPort, among others. As head of the SPIN office, he is responsible for the strategic development of the leading-edge cluster, the scientific orientation as well as the development and initiation of new projects on the topics of hydrogen, Power-to-X, CCU and digitalization as well as artificial intelligence.