Peter Fritz (nuclear engineer)

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Peter Fritz (* 1952 in Waldheim ) is a German energy expert and science manager.

Fritz studied process engineering at the Leibniz University in Hanover from 1972 to 1978 and was then a research assistant at the Institute for Process Engineering . In 1981 he received his doctorate there (on reactor safety ). He then worked in industry: from 1982 to 1992 at EVT (energy and process engineering, Stuttgart), where he became the head of the design and development department , and from 1992 to 1999 at Preussag Noell GmbH in Würzburg as a member of the management and head of the energy division - and environmental technology.

He is chairman of the University Council and honorary senator of the University of Karlsruhe - Technology and Economics , Chairman of the Technology Committee of the IHK Karlsruhe, Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, and was until 2013 vice president for research and innovation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology after From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the board of the Karlsruhe Research Center . He was founding chairman of the sustainability advisory board of the state government of Baden-Württemberg, as well as a member of the presidium of the VDE Association of Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies, member of the board meeting and the scientific advisory board of the VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure eV and chairman of the board of the VDI / VDE society for microelectronics and precision engineering. From its establishment in 2000 until 2013, he was the spokesman for the nuclear technology competence network . From 2006 to 2009 he was also chairman of the Kerntechnische Gesellschaft , from 2009 to 2014 he was chairman of the Energy Facts Association . From 2010 to 2014 he was Vice President of the German Atomic Forum with responsibility for science and research and has been a member of the Presidium since then. He is the initiator of the bioliq process for the production of high-quality fuels from biomass residues at today's KIT. In 2009 he initiated the establishment of Celitement GmbH to develop a new, exceptionally environmentally friendly cement. From 2007 to 2014 he was vice-chairman of the consortium council of the environmental research station Schneefernerhaus and was awarded the Bavarian Merit Medal in 2014 for his environmental merits .

Since 2013 he has been the managing partner of Dr. Peter Fritz Consulting GmbH.

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