Dr. Holger Althues

Holger Althues is currently head of division “battery materials” and deputy head of technology field “battery technology” at Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology in Dresden, Germany. He studied chemical engineering and received his doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry at the University of Technology Dresden in 2007. Since then he is working at Fraunhofer IWS. 2008 he became a team manager for the chemical surface technology group and his team was transferred into a division in 2015. In his position as division manager he coordinates various R&D projects on developing materials and processes for future generation batteries. A recent research focus of his team is on material and electrode development for lithium sulfur and solid state battery cells.