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Department of Engineering and Communication

Tanja Clees Portrait

Prof. Dr Tanja Clees

Engineering, particularly Informatics for Engineers, Modeling and Simulation/TREE - Member of Executive Board/Research Professorship

Unit

Department of Engineering and Communication, Institute of Technology, Resource and Energy-efficient Engineering (TREE)

Research fields

  • Energienetze (Gastransport, Fernwärme, Strom)
  • Energiemanagement
  • Sektorkopplung (v.a. Wasserstoff)

Location

Sankt Augustin

Room

B 245

Address

Grantham-Allee 20

53757 Sankt Augustin

Fraunhofer SCAI

Location

Sankt Augustin

Address

Schloss Birlinghoven

53757 Sankt Augustin

Telephone

+49 (2241) 14-4074

Curriculum vitae

  • since 1998 working at Fraunhofer SCAI (former GMD)

  • 1999 Diploma in Mathematics, University of Cologne

  • 2000 „Best Diploma Thesis at GMD“ award: „Mehrgitterverfahren für die zwei- und dreidimensionale Poissongleichung mit periodischen Randbedingungen und eine Anwendung in der Molekulardynamik“

  • 2004 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Cologne: „AMG Strategies for PDE Systems with Applications in Industrial Semiconductor Simulation“

  • 2007 - 2010 group leader "Robust Design" at Fraunhofer SCAI

  • since 2007 young researcher, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation

  • 2008 - 2010 "Fast Track" programme for postdoctoral researchers, Robert Bosch Foundation

  • 2008: portraited in „Frauen, die forschen“ (B. Flitner, J. Rubner)

  • since 2009 „Vintage Class“ (High Potentials), Fraunhofer Society

  • since 2010 academia-net.de portal

  • 2011 - 2018 head of department "High Performance Analytics" at Fraunhofer SCAI

  • since February 2018 professor of engineering at Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

  • since 2020 member of executive board of the TREE institute

  • since September 2021 research professor at EMT faculty

 

Projects

  • ​BMWi MathEnergy
  • EFRE/NRW ES-FLEX-INFRA

Research Projects

MarrakEsH - modular, renewable, and self-sufficient energy supply with H2 technology

In the MarrakEsH project, GKN HYDROGEN GmbH, Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS), the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology (IEE), Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG and Infineon Technologies AG are working on a self-sufficient energy supply with hydrogen.

Project management at the H-BRS

Prof. Dr Marco Jung Prof. Dr Tanja Clees
SimBench Sector

SimBench Sector is a joint project in the 7th Energy Research Programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. Based on the results of the SimBench research project, SimBench Sector aims to methodically develop a data set that enables the realistic modelling of German electricity, gas and heating grids. Innovative use cases in the area of neighbourhood development, the redesign of gas networks for hydrogen or even cross-sector simulations make the development of gas and heating network components as part of a benchmark dataset sensible and necessary. In particular, future studies on coupled infrastructures as part of the energy transition and its digitalisation require consistent test networks in all sectors.

Project management at the H-BRS

Prof. Dr Tanja Clees
GREATER - Growing Rwandan Energy Awareness Through Higher Education

The GREATER project aims at supporting Rwandan country in the energy transition which is needed for sustaining its social and economic growth. In order to fill the energy gap and to enable equal access of the Rwandan population to electricity, widespread exploitation of renewable energy sources is planned. According to Governmental strategies for energy development, low-power, off-grid, distributed power generation will play a key role, this calling for both the training of a new generation of skilled professionals and for the widest diffusion of green awareness in the national community.

Project management at the H-BRS

Prof. Dr Marco Jung Prof. Dr Stefanie Meilinger Prof. Dr Tanja Clees Derk Gonschor
Green hydrogen from brewing biomass

In this project, the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences will analyse the availability of brewer's grains and the sustainability of procurement and processing. The design of a suitable electrochemical electrolysis cell will be carried out at Robert Gordon University.

Project management at the H-BRS

Prof. Dr Tanja Clees Prof. Dr Stefanie Meilinger
TransHyDE-Sys-MechaMod

TransHyDE-Sys is a system analysis project and a joint project within the lead project TransHyDE. In addition to the system analysis, there are also implementation and research projects on the topic of H2 transport in the lead project. As a cross-sectional project, the system analysis performs a special function: On the one hand, essential system knowledge for the time-dependent construction and coupling of the energy infrastructures is generated with the help of own modelling and simulation work as well as ecological analyses.

Project management at the H-BRS

Prof. Dr Tanja Clees
TRE3L - TREE-Energy Lab

The institute TREE operates the TREE-Energy Lab (TRE3L) in the university's Center of Applied Research (ZAF)  with it's industrial partners GKN Driveline and GKN Sinter Metals. In the three sub-labs Powder Fabrication-Lab, Mobility-Lab and Hydrogen-Lab the three partners work on innovative techniques in powder metallurgy and recent topics of environment friendly mobility and energy-efficiency. These labs are supported by a Simulation-Lab.

Project management at the H-BRS

Prof. Dr Alexander Asteroth Prof. Dr Tanja Clees Prof. Dr Dirk Reith