Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Rehtanz
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The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is "Dortmund-Eichlinghofen" (closer to Campus Süd), and from B 1 / A 40 "Dortmund-Dorstfeld" (closer to Campus Nord). Signs for the university are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dortmund.
To get from Campus Nord to Campus Süd by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at Campus Nord and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.
TU Dortmund University has its own train station ("Dortmund Universität"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station ("Dortmund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 20 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.
You can also take the bus or subway train from Dortmund city to the university: From Dortmund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station "Stadtgarten", usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At "Stadtgarten" you switch trains and get on line U42 towards "Hombruch". Look out for the Station "An der Palmweide". From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dortmund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dortmund main station to the stop "Dortmund Kampstraße". From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop "Dortmund Wittener Straße". Switch to bus line 447 and get off at "Dortmund Universität S".
The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.
The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on Campus Nord. One ("Dortmund Universität S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Campus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Campus Nord and offers a direct connection to Campus Süd every five minutes.
The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".
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Since 03/2007 | Full Professor and Head of Institute of Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency and Energy Economics, TU Dortmund University, Germany |
01/2005 - 02/2007 | Vice President and Director of ABB (China) Ltd - Corporate Research, Beijing, P.R. China |
02/2003 - 02/2005 | Head of Technology and Group Assistant Vice President, Business Area "Power Systems", ABB Power Technologies Management Ltd, Zürich, Switzerland |
01/2003 - 04/2003 | Head of the global research program "Power Transmission & Distribution Applications" within ABB Group R&D |
06/2001 - 12/2002 | Group Leader "Utility Solutions" at ABB Switzerland Ltd - Corporate Research, Baden-Dättwil / Switzerland |
03/2000 - 05/2001 | Scientist in the Department of Information Technologies at ABB Switzerland Ltd - Corporate Research, Baden-Dättwil / Switzerland |
11/1997 - 02/2000 | Setup and management of the Electric Power Systems Group at the ZEDO e.V. (Centre for Technical Consulting Systems, Dortmund) |
05/1994 - 02/2000 | Research Associate at the Chair of Electric Power Systems, University of Dortmund |
1. Oct. 2002 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi for "Electrical Power Systems" at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ) |
31. Oct. 1997 | Doctorate Thesis: "Implementation of a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) for the Improvement of Voltage Stability in Electric Power Systems" |
10/1989 - 03/1994 | University of Dortmund, Diploma in Electrical Engineering |
2023 | Appointment as IEEE Fellow |
02/2022-04/2022 | Otto Mønsted Gæste Professor, Center for Electric Power and Energy, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Kopenhagen, Denmark |
09/2016 | Appointment as "Advisory Professor" at Hohai University, Nanjing, China |
2015 | Green Tec Award 2015 (Category Energy) for the project "Smart Country / Grids for the power supply of the future" under the consortium leadership of RWE Germany |
2015 | ISGAN (International Smart Grid Action Network der International Energy Agency (IEA)) Award of Excellence 2015 for the EU-project Grid4EU |
2014 | Award "German Digital Heads - Deutschlands digitale Köpfe", German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik) |
2013 - 2018 | Honorary Professor at University of Queensland, Australia |
11/2012 | Appointment as Member of the Academy of Science Berlin-Brandenburg (one of the three German National Academies of Science) |
2012 | Best Paper Award for the Symposium of "Performance Analysis and Co-simulation" in the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2012) |
2012 | Best Paper Award of the Journal ’at’ of year 59 (2011), category “Applications”, for „Dezentrales autonomes Energiemanagement“ |
2010 | Adjunct Professorship at the Hunan University, Changsha, China |
2009 | IEEE Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award as Member of "IEEE Task Force on Blackout Experience, Mitigation and Role of New Technologies" |
2008 | E.ON Research Award 2007 |
2005 | Swiss Technology Award 2005 for special IGBT-Modules for HVDC und FACTS-Devices |
2003 | TR100 - World Top 100 Young Innovators Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Technology Review Magazine |
1998 | Doctorate Thesis Award of the President of the University of Dortmund |
1994 | Award of VDE Rhein-Ruhr e.V. (German Association of Electrical Engineers) for outstanding Diploma |
since 05/2022 | Member of the Climate Advisory Council of the city of Dortmund |
since 06/2021 | Member of the Technical Advisory Board of GWI e.V. (Gas and Heat Institute Essen) |
07/2020 – 03/2023 | Member of the Advisory Board of innogy Westenergie GmbH |
01/2020 – 12/2022 | Vice-Chairman of Power Engineering Society (ETG) of VDE |
01/2017 – 12/2019 | Chairman of Power Engineering Society (ETG) of VDE |
10/2016 – 12/2019 | Head of "International Business Council – Grid & Infrastructure" of innogy AG |
since 05/2015 | Member of the board of KoCoS Messtechnik AG (since 12/2018 chairman of the board) |
since 01/2014 | Member of the Advisory Board of RWE AG |
2013 - 2017 | Member of SweGRIDS Advisory Board |
01/2013 – 12/2018 | Member of the Scientifc Board of the OFFIS e.V. appointed by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxonia |
07/2012 – 07/2022 | Member of the Executive Board of the European Association EES-UETP (Electric Power Systems - University Enterprise Training Partnership) |
since 05/2012 | Member of the Advisory Board of the DLR-Institute of Networked Energy Systems, before Next Energy Institute (EWE Research Center), Oldenburg |
03/2012 – 09/2026 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of VGB Powertech |
07/2011 – 07/2020 | Member of the General Council of the Power System Computation Conference (PSCC), Vice Chair of the Technical Program Committee (2016-2018), Chair of the Technical Program Committee (2018-2020) |
since 10/2010 | Member of VDE-ETG V2 „Transmission and Distribution of Electric Energy“ |
since 11/2009 | Member of Study Committee C2 of the German CIGRE |
08/2009 - 2014 | Curator of the Energy Research Center of Lower Saxony (EFZN) |
since 09/2007 | Member of Advisory Board and Scientific Spokesman of ef.Ruhr Gmbh |
since 08/2007 | Chairman of ZEDO e.V. (Centre for Technical Consulting Systems, Dortmund) |
since 2006 | Alumni of BMW-foundation Herbert Quandt as „BMW Foundation Young Leader“ |
08/2004 - 03/2007 | Convenor of CIGRE Task Force "Wide Area Monitoring and Control for Transmission Capability Enhancement" within WG C4.6.01 |
06/2002 - 06/2005 | Initiator and Vice Chair of the Swiss Chapter of the Power Engineering Society (PES) of the IEEE |
03/2001- 11/2004 | Member of the Trendwatch Group of the Swiss Government Office for Energy (BFE) |
since 1996, 2004, 1993 | Member of IEEE (Senior Member), CIGRE and VDE |
since 01/2018 | Member of Editorial Board of int. peer-reviewed Journal "Energy Systems Research", esrj.ru, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science |
since 03/2013 | Editor-in-Chief of int. peer-reviewed Journal "IET Transmission, Distribution & Generation" |
since 06/2008 | Member of Editorial Board of int. peer-reviewed Journal "IET Transmission, Distribution & Generation" |
01/2008 - 10/2013 | Member of Editorial Board of int. peer-reviewed Journal "Electrical Engineering" (Springer-Publisher) |
11/2007 – 12/2018 | Member of Editorial Board of peer-reviewed Journal "AT-Automatisierungstechnik" (Oldenbourg-Publisher) |
01/2024 – 12/2026 | Elected member of the Senat of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
10/2016 – 09/2020 | Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the TU Dortmund University |
since 04/2016 | Elected Review Board Member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
09/2014 - 09/2016 | Vice-Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the TU Dortmund University |
02/2008 - 06/2016 | Member of the Senate of the TU Dortmund University (since 06/2012 as deputy) |