Research centers

The Automotive Research Centre Niedersachsen (NFF) bundles the research activities around the topic of mobility in Niedersachsen. Professor Spengler is a founding member of the NFF board and, together with Professor Woisetschläger, he heads the cross-sectional research field "Mobility Management and Logistics". In terms of content, the research field focuses on established and innovative mobility concepts that address classic mobility and logistics needs and combine them with new mobility-related services. Based on changing mobility and logistics needs, innovative concepts for individualised and safe passenger and freight transport are developed in the form of services and business models that meet technical, ecological and economic requirements at any time and in any place. On this basis, framework conditions for sustainable mobility are created.

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The Aeronautics Research Centre Niedersachsen (NFL) supports coordinated and strategically important aerospace research projects at the Braunschweig Research Airport. A major research project is the Cluster of Excellence „Sustainable and Energy Efficient Aviation“ (SE²A), which aims at investigating technologies for a sustainable and environmentally sound development of air transport. Professor Spengler is a board member of SE²A and leads the research cluster “Integrated Assessment of the Air Transport System”. The Chair of Production and Logistics also contributes to the Junior Research Group “Overall System Evaluation“ and the research project „Sustainability Modeling and Analysis of Future Aircraft Systems“ (SUMAFly).

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The Energy Research Centre of Lower Saxony (EFZN) bundles the energy research activities of the universities of Braunschweig, Clausthal, Göttingen, Hanover and Oldenburg. As a central research, networking and communication platform, the EFZN brings together the stakeholders involved in the transformation of the energy system from science, industry, politics, and civil society. At the energy research node in Braunschweig, we mainly work on the two EFZN research lines "P2X Technologies" and "Integrated Energy Systems". In particular, issues relating to the ongoing digitization as well as the transition to and storage of renewable energies play a special role.

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The Battery LabFactory Braunschweig bundles the research activities at Technische Universität Braunschweig in the field of electrochemical energy storage. Together with the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, we lead the the research team “Sustainable Supply Chains and Factory Systems”. The research in this team focuses on the development of methods and tools to assess and improve the sustainability of current and future battery technologies and to design flexible, transparent and efficient factory systems. Research activities comprise the planning and control of the production system, the use of Industry 4.0 technologies, the recycling and second use of batteries, and methods for life cycle sustainability assessment.

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