Felix Vandercruysse

Director Product Management SOEC

Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany

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Experience

  • Sunfire (6 yrs 3 mos)
    • Director Product Management SOEC
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Head of Stack Design and Materials
      Jul 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      - Project manager industrialization of SOEC/SOFC stacks (incl. equipment, processes, supply chain, quality and design) - Team leader design and materials development of SOEC/SOFC stacks - Technical management/setting up supply chain - Technology scouting/assessment of competitive landscape including PEM and Alkaline - Product and development strategy - Improving workflow and methodical engineering

    • Senior Engineer
      May 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

      - Project lead/owner - design projects - General SOEC/SOFC stack and materials development - SOEC/SOFC stack design development - Process development - coating and structuring processes - Technical and strategic management supply chain

  • HEXIS AG ()
    • Team Leader Materials and Stack Development
      Dec 2016 - May 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      - Team lead stack design and materials development of SOC Stacks - Project manager industrialization stack module (incl. cell, stack and module production, processes, quality, product design and supply chain management of key components) - Technology scouting/assessment of competitive landscape - Product and development strategy

    • Project Manager Stack Module Development
      Oct 2014 - Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      - Project manager industrialization stack module (incl. cell, stack and module production, processes, quality, product design and supply chain management of key components) - Project acquisition/public funding - Testing and definition of stack operation management

  • Project Engineer at Empa
    Jul 2011 - Jun 2014 · 3 yrs

    - PhD-Thesis - Failure analysis of SOFC stacks - Development of a high temperature, high throughput, multi media strength test set up for thin brittle plates - Improvement of cell failure rate at stack level by improving stack design and manufacturing

  • Assistant Scientist at Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
    May 2008 - Feb 2009 · 10 mos

    - Preparation and characterization of hard magnetic nano thin films

  • Research Intern at Liquids Research Ltd
    Oct 2007 - Apr 2008 · 7 mos

    - Magnetic and morphological characterization of nano particles for magnetic tape storage applications