Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energies

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Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN)
Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN)
Logo of the HI ERN
Category: research Institute
Facility location: Erlangen , Nuremberg
Type of research: Energy research
Areas of expertise: Electrochemistry , catalysis , photovoltaics
Basic funding: Federal Republic of Germany (90%), Free State of Bavaria (10%)
Management: Karl Mayrhofer
Peter Wasserscheid
Christoph Brabec
Employee: approx. 75
Homepage: www.hi-ern.de

The Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energies ( HI ERN ) is a research institute in Bavaria . As an external institute, it is part of Forschungszentrum Jülich and, through this, part of the Helmholtz Association . Within the structure of Forschungszentrum Jülich, it is the Institute for Energy and Climate Research 11 (IEK11) .
The HI ERN is located on the southern site of the university there in Erlangen and on the AEG site in Nuremberg . In Erlangen, the HI ERN is currently housed in the rooms of the university and the ZAE Bavaria . From 2020, a separate building with around 3,200 m² of office and laboratory space, which will provide space for around 110 employees, will also be ready for occupancy on the southern site of Erlangen.

history

The Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg was founded in 2013. The founding ceremony took place on August 20, 2013 in the rooms of the Energie Campus Nürnberg . The aim of the new establishment was a close collaboration between Forschungszentrum Jülich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin . The task of the institute is to develop material and process-based approaches to make renewable energies climate-neutral and cost-effective. Peter Wasserscheid
is the founding director of the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Research priorities

Research at the HI ERN is divided into six research departments. Research focuses on the areas of hydrogen technology and photovoltaics . In the hydrogen sector, the main focus is on the electrocatalytic splitting of water ( electrolysis ) or the generation of electrical energy from hydrogen ( fuel cell ) as well as the storage of hydrogen in the form of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) . The focus in the field of photovoltaics is the development of printable photovoltaics.

Research at the HI ERN is divided into six departments:

  • Electrocatalysis (Head: Karl Mayerhofer)
  • Electrocatalytic Interface Process Engineering (Head: Simon Thiele)
  • Material hydrogen storage (Head: Peter Wasserscheid)
  • Dynamics of Complex Fluids and Interfaces (Head: Jens Harting)
  • High throughput methods of photovoltaics (Head: Christoph Brabec and Jens Hauch)
  • X-ray spectroscopy at interfaces of thin films (Head: Marcus Bär)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c data and facts at www.hi-ern.de (accessed: July 22, 2019)
  2. ↑ Site Journal - Archive message (accessed: July 24, 2019) on hi-ern.de
  3. ↑ Press invitation to the founding ceremony of the new Helmholtz Institute - press release from the University of Erlangen on November 15, 2013 (accessed: July 24, 2019)
  4. ^ Organization chart of the HI ERN (as of July 24, 2019)