Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Altstädt

CEO of New Materials Bayreuth Center, Germany

Since 1st of October 2000, Professor Dr.-Ing. Volker Altstädt is full professor at the Department of Polymer Engineering at the Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences (FAN) of the University of Bayreuth. After his university studies in physics and Dr.-Ing. in 1987 with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ehrenstein at the department of Mechanical Engineering in Kassel, respectively, he worked as a group leader for 8 years in the Department of Polymer Physics under the Polymer Research Division of BASF AG in Ludwigshafen. Since 1995 Volker Altstädt has been a full Professor for Polymers in Mechanical Engineering and head of the Department of Polymers and Polymer Composites at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany.