New at the faculty - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Schossig

The professorship is a cooperation between the faculty and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, where Peter Schossig will take on a management function in the field of heat and buildings in parallel to his teaching activities in accordance with the so-called "Jülich model".

The professorship will focus on issues relating to the expansion of solar energy generation in the area of building envelopes and the system integration of technologies for the climate-friendly provision of electricity, heating and cooling - particularly in existing buildings. In addition, cross-building approaches to energy exchange via grids are considered with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions over the entire life cycle.
Dr. Peter Schossig is Head of the Heat and Buildings Division at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg. Since 2016, he has taught at the University of Freiburg, at the Institute for Sustainable Technical Systems INATECH (Solar Energy, Heat Pumps and Energy Storage). In 2021, he was appointed as "Alternate Delegate" for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection BMWK in the heat pump program of the International Energy Agency IEA.

He studied physics (diploma degree) at the University of Freiburg. In 2005, he successfully completed his doctorate in architecture at the Institute for Building Physics and Building Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He started at Fraunhofer ISE in 1998 as a research associate and since 2017 has been responsible for around 250 employees in the departments "Energy Efficient Buildings", "Heating and Cooling Technology" and "High Temperature Solar Thermal and Industrial Processes", the research group "Characterization, Testing and Quality Assurance" with its accredited testing facilities.

As a professor at the KIT Department of Architecture, he not only wants to impart knowledge, but also arouse enthusiasm for the topic of energy in the built environment, especially for the success of the heat transition. He aims to make his teaching very interactive and practical by actively involving students in projects and their implementation.

Curriculum vitae

2024 Head of the "Heat and Buildings" division.
2017 Head of the "Thermal Systems and Building Technology" division.
2017 Head of the "Heating and Cooling Technology" department
2016 Deputy Head of the "Thermal Systems and Buildings" division
2011 Head of the "Thermally active materials and solar cooling" department
2005 Head of the "Thermally active materials" group
2005 Doctorate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
"Microencapsulated phase change materials in wall composite systems"
1998 Research assistant "Building concepts, analytics, thermal energy management, thermal energy storage"
1991 Physics (diploma studies) at the University of Freiburg
"Measurement and modeling of the angular dependence of the efficiency of concentrating solar collectors"

Teaching

since 2016 Lectures at the University of Freiburg: "Solar energy" and "Energy storage"
Since 2012 External examiner for doctoral examinations
at the Universities of Lleida and Valencia, Spain and Warwick, United Kingdom and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2012-2022 Lectures at the University of Fribourg on thermal energy storage and heat generation
2009- 2013 Guest lectures at the Technical University of Munich on "Thermal energy storage and solar cooling"

Supervision of diploma / master and PhD students
Supervisor of various diploma and master's theses and
Supervisor of several doctoral theses (also in other European countries)

List of publications

https://publica.fraunhofer.de/search?query=Schossig

website

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterprofile/schossig-peter.html