Prof. Dr. Martin Gräbner

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Graebner is Director Energy Process Engineering of the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (IEC) and Professor for Energy Process Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg and also Division Head (Freiberg) Energy and Process Engineering, Circular Carbon Technologies at the Fraunhofer IKTS Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems since 2021. Since 2023 he is Director of the Center for Efficient High Temperature Processes and Materials Conversion in Freiberg.

He researches, develops and optimizes new processes for the energy and raw material transition. The focus is on the creation of closed carbon cycles using renewable energies. This includes in particular the chemical recycling of residual materials (especially plastics), the production of synthetic raw materials and fuels (e.g. e-fuels) and the thermochemical production of hydrogen (e.g. from biogenic waste). The aim is the basic development of technologies up to industrial scale at the interface between plant engineering, the energy industry, waste management, the chemical industry, and metallurgy.

Before his appointment as Professor at IEC, he was Scientific Director at Air Liquide responsible for managing the global R&D strategy for exploratory projects and competence development in the field of syngas production, metal, cement, glass and CO₂ capture. He was also Air Liquide’s delegate at the World Economic Forum for Waste Processing in the Low-Carbon Emission Technologies initiative. During his nine years at Air Liquide, he was based at the Frankfurt Innovation Campus (Germany) and had short-term assignments in China. Prof. Graebner was recognized as Air Liquide’s International Senior Expert for gasification.