Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKSProf. Dr. Peter Dold, Executive Director (interim)
Since September 1, 2023, Prof. Dr. Peter Dold has been heading the Fraunhofer IWKS in Hanau and Alzenau together with Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff. Peter Dold is a professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the field of renewable energies.
His area of expertise includes the production, crystallization and processing of semiconductor materials and ceramics, the recycling of renewable energy materials, and materials separation and analysis. His focus at Fraunhofer IWKS will include the recovery, processing and recycling of inorganic and organic recyclables. Here, the focus will be on mechanical, thermal and chemical processing methods.
Peter Dold received his doctorate in 1995 from the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg in the field of crystallography and materials science, and his work was awarded the Gödecke Research Prize. This was followed in 2003 by his habilitation and the award of the Venia Legendi. After various shorter research stays - at NASA in Huntsville Alabama or at NEC in Tsukuba - Peter Dold worked for two years at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, before moving to Waterloo, Ontario for four years to work for the Canadian company Arise Technologies as head of the polysilicon division. In 2011, he accepted an offer from Fraunhofer ISE to head the Fraunhofer Centrum für Silizium Photovoltaik (CSP) branch office in Halle an der Saale, a position he held until 2023.
Peter Dold looks back on a total of seven years of industrial experience, relevant academic activities and now twelve years at Fraunhofer.
