The Academic Advisory Board has an advisory function and serves to ensure academic quality assurance. Above all, it advises on scientific topics and issues relating to academic teaching, its future organization and other courses on offer. Advisory Board members use their networks to promote research and teaching at the EUREF-Campus.
Professor of Product Development and Mechatronics at Technical University Berlin
Professor Göhlich has headed the Department of Methods of Product Development and Mechatronics at Technical University Berlin since 2010. He is Managing Director of the Institute of Machine Design and Systems Engineering and Scientific Director of the Central Facility 3D Technologies founded at TU Berlin in 2021. The mechanical engineer studied at TU Berlin and completed his doctorate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. From 1989 to 2010, he held a leading position in passenger car development at Daimler AG, including in overall vehicle design. He is a proven expert in the design and methodical development of vehicles and mechatronic systems. Göhlich is involved in various projects and organizations for an integrated energy and transport transition. He is spokesman for the BMBF research campus Mobility2Grid on the EUREF-Campus Berlin and is a member of the board of the Werner-von-Siemens Center for Industry and Science, a member of the Scientific Society for Product Development and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering.
Former member of the Executive Board of GASAG AG
Olaf Czernomoriez holds a degree in mathematics and was a member of the Executive Board of GASAG AG Berlin from 2003 to 2014. He began his career at GASAG in 1993, initially as Head of Controlling, later as authorized signatory and Head of Accounting and Finance. In 2002, Czernomoriez became Chief Representative of the company, then Deputy Member of the Executive Board for Finance, Controlling, Corporate Development, Accounting and IT in 2003 and finally Full Member of the Executive Board in 2005. In 2012, the business areas of project accounting, purchasing, risk management and auditing were added.
Senior Professor at the Technical University Dortmund and Academic Director of the master’s degree programs at the EUREF-Campus Düsseldorf
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.
Professor and Chairholder at Ruhr Universität Bochum and Scientific Director of the Master’s program “Management of Smart and Sustainable Energy Systems” at the EUREF-Campus Düsseldorf
Professor Löschel has held the Chair of Environmental/Resource Economics and Sustainability at Ruhr Universität Bochum since 2021 and is a researcher at the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. As Academic Director of the Master of Science (MSc) program “Management of Smart and Sustainable Energy Systems,” he has also been active at the International Academy for German Engineering and Science (IAGES) at the EUREF-Talent-Campus Düsseldorf since 2025 and played a key role in developing the program.
He studied economics in Nuremberg and earned his doctorate from the University of Mannheim. Before moving to the Ruhr region, he was a professor at the Universities of Münster and Heidelberg and headed a research unit at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. Since 2011, he has chaired the The German Federal Government’s Independent Expert Commission for Energy Transition Monitoring (EEM). In 2024, he also appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Academies’ Initiative Energy Systems of the Future (ESYS), supported by acatech – the National Academy of Science and Engineering, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. As Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he is responsible for the chapter on energy systems in the Seventh Assessment Report.
In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s (F.A.Z.) economist ranking, he has been repeatedly ranked among the 50 most influential economists in Germany. For his research, he received, among other awards, the German Business Prize from the Joachim Herz Foundation in 2022. Löschel is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
Managing Director of E.ON Stiftung gGmbH
Dr. Muschick is Managing Director of the E.ON Foundation, which supports artistic and scientific projects. He was previously responsible for the foundation work of the Essen-based energy companies RWE and Innogy. He studied Scandinavian and German studies in Berlin and Uppsala and wrote his doctoral thesis on the relationship between Sweden and Europe. The aim of the E.ON Foundation is to help shape the sustainable energy system of the future. In doing so, it focuses on society as a whole and relies on social innovation and the participation of people. In a fair, open and networked process, the funding projects and partnerships offer space for well-founded and critical reflection on the transformation process. This creates the basis for offering, testing and implementing new solutions. To this end, the foundation relies on close cooperation with numerous partners from the non-profit sector and on local activities to put concrete solutions for sustainable transformation into practice.
President of Technical University Berlin
Professor Rauch has been President of TU Berlin since 2022 and is spokesperson for the Berlin University Alliance, the Berlin Excellence Network of FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin and Charité – Berlin University Medicine. She studied mathematics at the University of Bremen and completed her doctorate at Roche Diagnostics GmbH in Penzberg. From 2009 to 2016, she taught and researched at the University of Heidelberg, where she received her venia legendi in medical biometrics in 2015. In 2017, she took up a W3 professorship for Medical Biometry at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. A short time later, she accepted an appointment at Charité – Berlin University Medicine. There she was Director of the Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology and, from 2020 to 2022, Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching with a focus on life and health sciences. Rauch has written several textbooks and specialist books. She is a Review Board Member of the Department of Medicine of the German Research Foundation and a full member of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association. She is also active in various professional societies, particularly in the areas of promoting young scientists, teaching and didactics.