Professor Faulstich is a senior professor at the Technical University Dortmund. In this context, he is Scientific Director for the new Master’s programs to be established on the EUREF-Campus Düsseldorf and Research Coordinator for the research and development activities of the UA Ruhr. From 2020 to 2023, he held the Chair of Resource and Energy Systems at the Technical University Dortmund. Previously, he held the Chair of Environmental and Energy Technology at Clausthal University of Technology and the Chair of Raw Materials and Energy Technology at the Technical University Munich. He has also taught and conducted research as a visiting professor at international institutes and has set up and restructured scientific institutions. Faulstich has also been active in political consulting for many years. He was initially a member and from 2008 to 2016 Chairman of the German Federal Government’s Council of Experts, which provided significant impetus for the energy and raw materials transition. He is currently Co-Chairman of the Resources Commission at the Federal Environment Agency. Since 2018, he has also been a board member of the INZIN Institute for the Future of Industrial Society in Düsseldorf and editor of the specialist journal “Sustainable Industry”.
His work focuses on strategies for a sustainable industrial society. To this end, he develops models and scenarios for the energy and raw materials transition as well as concrete technical solutions for the circular and energy economy. He is a member of numerous committees of renowned institutions, including the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) and the Circular Economy Coalition for Europe. He also served for many years on the Board of Trustees of the Daimler and Benz Foundation and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.