Dr. Alexander Hofmann
Fraunhofer UMSCHT,
Company: Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Position: Head of Department Thermochemical Conversion Technologies
Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Hofmann started at Fraunhofer UMSICHT in July 2019. Since April 2021, he has been the Head of the Department of Advanced Carbon Conversion Technologies.
He holds a doctorate in chemistry and focuses on thermochemical recycling processes for hard-to-recycle feedstocks.
One key area of his work is on downstream processes for pyrolysis products and their conversion into basic chemicals for defossilized chemistry.