Prof. Dr. Julian Jepsen

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Julian Jepsen studied industrial engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Wedel near Hamburg and the University of Abertay Dundee in Scotland. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (now Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon) and the University of Pavia in Italy. He completed his PhD in materials science at the Helmut Schmidt University (HSU) in 2013. After his PhD, he completed a higher fire service education with the second state examination. Starting from 2016, he worked in various leading positions at Hereon and is still employed there today as deputy director of the institute of hydrogen technology. In 2022, he also became an assistant professor at HSU for applied materials science. With his research teams at Hereon and HSU, he is working on energy storage by hydrogen based on metal hydrides and their integration into existing applications. An additional focus is the coupling of different energy sectors for the integration of renewable energy with volatile behaviour and the compression of hydrogen.