Florian Rasch

About

Materials scientist with long-term experience in interdisciplinary research & development within academia and industry. Currently working as a senior material scientist at Quest One in the R&D department for PEM electrolysis stacks.

Experience

• Quest One (5 yrs 2 mos)
  • Senior Material Scientist
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Technical lead of team for development of porous layers, coatings and material analysis methods.

  • Material Scientist
    May 2021 - Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    R&D within field of PEM electrolysis with focus on porous stack components PTL & GDL as well as protective coatings: - Initiation and leading of internal & external development projects with research & industry partners - Qualification of suppliers & components for implementation in product - Planning, execution and evaluation of tests for characterization of stack performance & degradation - Implementation & running of various material analysis tools

• Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (3 yrs 10 mos)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    Jan 2021 - Mar 2021 · 3 mos

  • PHD Student
    Jun 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Development of porous materials based on various polymers and 2D nanomaterials for a wide range of applications, including drug delivery ("Materials for Brain", www.grk2154.uni-kiel.de), tissue engineering, gas sensing, and energy storage.

• Visiting Graduate Researcher at California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA
  Mar 2019 - May 2019 · 3 mos

  Research stay at Khademhosseini Lab (tissueeng.net), a world-leading interdisciplinary group in the field of biomaterials, tissue engineering and organ-on-a-chip.

• Internship at tesa SE
  May 2014 - Oct 2014 · 6 mos

  Department "Research & Development – Backings"

• Research Assistant at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
  Mar 2012 - Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  Chair for Functional Nanomaterials (www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/fnano)