Thomas Fröhlich
Scientific Director
Main Topics: Industry and Products, Resources
Research Topics
- Life Cycle Assessment of products, processes, and technologies (LCA, Eco-profiles)
- Chemical and petrochemical industry
- Plastics
- Sustainable Chemistry
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 2025 Scientific Director and Member of the Board at ifeu, Heidelberg
- 2022 - 2024 Team Lead Basic Industry at ifeu, Heidelberg
- 2019 - 2021 Senior project mananger Chemistry and Petrochemistry
- 2012 - 2019 Research associate and project manager at ifeu, Heidelberg
- 2010 - 2012 Freelance team trainer, outdoor trainer and event coach
- 2005 - 2010 PhD studies at the Institute of Chemical Process Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1999 - 2004 Studies in Chemical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Selected Projects
- Eco-profiles for
- Refinery- and steam cracker products
- Production of polymers and plastics (e.g. PE, PP, PET, PVC)
- Production of monomers and intermediates (e.g. chlorine, caustic, chlorinated hydrocarbons)
- Environmental impacts of Power-to-X products
- Investigation of environmentally relevant impact categories of the hydrogen economy (including derivatives) to anchor sustainability requirements
- Development of criteria for the sustainable supply of electricity based regenerative energy carriers
- H2-Companion – Supportive research for the model region “Green Hydrogen Baden-Württemberg”
- CORAL/ CORA - CO2, a resource from the atmosphere (funded by German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- Kopernikus P2X – Research, validation and implementation of “Power-to-X” concepts (funded by German Federal Ministry for Education and Research)
- SYSEET- System Comparison of Storable Renewable Energy Sources
