Dr. Ralph-Uwe Dietrich,
Head of Alternative Fuels, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) / Germany
"Without strong political authority the market introduction of power-to-X will not start. When will politics demand power based fuels?"
Vita
Dr.-Ing. Ralph-Uwe Dietrich leads the research area Alternative Fuels at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart. He is responsible for the research group on techno economic and ecologic evaluation of alternative fuels for aviation and global transport. He received his PhD in Engineering at the Technical University Clausthal in 2013 as a Scientific coworker at the Clausthaler Umwelttechnik Institute (CUTEC-Institut GmbH). Before that, he got 15 years of project manager experience at different enterprises (SME and Fortune 500) of the petroleum and process industry.