Prof. Dr. Maximilian Fichtner is Chemist and Executive Director of the Helmholtz-Institute Ulm for Electrochemical Energy Storage (HIU), where he is leading the “Solid State Chemistry” Department. At the Institute for Nanotechnology of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) he is head of the Research Unit “Energy Storage Systems”.
Fichtner is also full professor for Solid State Chemistry at the Ulm University and Honorary professor at the University of Wales in Swansea, UK.
He is member of the Advisory Board for Battery Research of the German Ministry BMBF. Fichtner is scientific director of CELEST (Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm-Karlsruhe) and spokesperson of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Cluster of Excellence “Energy Storage Beyond Lithium” (POLiS) where 120 researchers are working on new ways to replace lithium in batteries by more sustainable elements.
His research interests are new principles for energy storage and the synthesis and investigation of related materials. Fichtner is author and co-author of approx. 450 refereed publications, conference- and book contributions, 24 patents and editor of a book on magnesium batteries.
His h index is 64 (SCOPUS).