Prof Dr Hanke-Rauschenbach, born in 1978, completed his studies in the subject of energy technology in 2001 and received his doctorate in 2007 on the subject of fuel cells. He has been a professor since 2014.

He is the author of over 90 articles in international journals. His current fields of work include:

• PEM water electrolysis in the context of power-to-gas applications,
• the design of vehicle energy systems for the utilisation of renewable energies in road mobility and aviation,
• energy system analysis with a particular focus on techno-economic and ecological aspects of the defossilisation of the electricity, heating and mobility sectors
• the techno-economic evaluation of business models in the areas of flexibility for the electricity system and hydrogen provision
• the design and flexibilised operation of stationary power-to-heat/cold and power-to-gas systems
• and technology selection and design methods for electrical energy storage systems
• Hanke-Rauschenbach is the initiator of the Lower Saxony Hydrogen Research Network and has been its spokesperson since 2019. Since 2019, he has also been a member and spokesman of the board of the Energy Research Centre of Lower Saxony(www.efzn.de/).