Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Kfm. Alexander Sauer

Director of Fraunhofer IPA

Scientific Director for Sustainability, Circular Economy and Value Creation Systems

Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency in Production EEP University of Stuttgart

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Sauer completed a double degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from RWTH Aachen in 1997, where he also received his doctorate in 2005. After working as a research assistant at the WZL, Sauer joined Hoerbiger Automotive Komfortsysteme GmbH in 2006 as a member of the executive board.

In early 2011, he accepted the call to the Munich University of Applied Sciences as a professor for manufacturing technology. At the beginning of 2015, he was appointed as a professor at the Institute for Energy Efficiency in Production (EEP) of the University of Stuttgart and, in parallel, took on more and more management tasks at Fraunhofer IPA.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Sauer developed the energy efficiency index of the industry, head of the Ultra-efficiency Factory and spokesman for the Kopernikus Project SynErgie, one of the largest scientific projects in the context of the energy transition.

Advisory Board Member Sustainable Bioeconomy, State Government of Baden-Württemberg

Expert and Member of the core group for the evaluation of the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research, SCCER of InnoSuisse (Schweizerische Agentur für Innovationsförderung)

Head of the Technical Committee (VDI) »Energy Flexible Factories«

Member of the Advisory Board of Reutlinger Energiezentrum für Dezentrale Energiesysteme & Energieeffizienz (REZ)

Member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz e. V. – DENEFF

Chairman of the Advisory Board of Umwelttechnik BW GmbH,

Landesagentur für Umwelttechnik und Ressourceneffizienz Baden-Württemberg

Member of the Advisory Board of Regionale Kompetenzstellen Netzwerk Energieeffizienz of the Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector Baden-Württemberg