Mario Ragwitz

Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz
Director of the Fraunhofer Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG)

Professor Mario Ragwitz is Director of the Fraunhofer Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG) since December 2019. Before that, he was Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe. As scientific director of the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence "Integrated Energy Systems" he coordinates the joint research of eight Fraunhofer Institutes in the field of energy system transformation, since 2019. He was also appointed as spokesman of the Fraunhofer Hydrogen Network in April 2020, which coordinates the work of 35 institutes in this field. He holds a chair in “Integrated Energy Infrastructures” at the Brandenburg University of Technology, a position as an honorary professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and is part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence.