Peter Wasserscheid is Head of the Institute for Chemical Reaction Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Director at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

He studied chemistry at RWTH Aachen University and obtained his doctorate there in 1998. After a six-month research stay as an industrial postdoc at BP Chemicals in Sunbury (UK), he returned to RWTH Aachen University to complete his habilitation. In 2003, he took up his current position at FAU, and in 2014 he added the role of founding director and later director at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy.

Peter Wasserscheid has also been a member of the board of the Hydrogen Center Bavaria since 2020 and spokesperson for the Helmholtz Cluster for a Sustainable and Infrastructure-Compatible Hydrogen Economy (HC-H2) since 2021. Since May 2025, he has also headed the “Reaction Engineering for Chemical Hydrogen Storage” division at the Institute for Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (INW) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

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