Hans-Peter Heim represents Hessian research network ProLOEWE

With immediate effect, the deputy speaker of the directorate is Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Böhm. Heim and Böhm both research and teach at the University of Kassel. ProLOEWE combines research centers and research priorities of the LOEWE funding program, with which the state of Hesse has been providing impetus for science policy and strengthening the Hessian research landscape since 2008.

Ehresmann had held the office for three years and now intends to devote more time to his duties in research and as vice president of the University of Kassel. Heim's term of office as ProLOEWE spokesperson is initially one year. The ProLOEWE office is based at the University of Kassel.

Heim (51), a plastics engineer, is considered strong in research and experienced in the administration of large research projects. He has been a professor of plastics engineering at the University of Kassel since 2008 and has been spokesman for the LOEWE "Safer Materials" project since 2015. He is also a trustee of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP), Potsdam, and scientific director of the Plastics Technology Application Center in Kassel. Until 2015, he was spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center TR30 of the German Research Foundation. Böhm is head of the Department of Separating and Joining Manufacturing Processes at the University of Kassel and spokesman for the LOEWE project Allegro. Heim said, "I look forward to working with the ProLOEWE office in the coming year to help make top Hessian research even more visible to society and to promote exchange between scientists in our state."

Prof. Dr. Reiner Finkeldey, President of the University of Kassel, expressed his delight that in Heim and Böhm a top-class leader had again been found. "Their experience as researchers and leaders of large projects and their excellent networking will pay off for ProLOEWE. In addition, as president of the University of Kassel, I am of course pleased with the short line to the office, which - since it came to Kassel a year and a half ago after a vacancy - has made LOEWE research more visible again, for example through its presence at the Hessentag and the university's campus festival, its web presence and its informative annual report."

Ehresmann drew a positive balance of his three-year term: "LOEWE is a unique state program. ProLOEWE was founded to intensify cooperation among the LOEWE centers and focal points and to make a broader public aware of the research that state funding makes possible and how society benefits from it. This has been achieved with great success for many years now, and I am very pleased that we can continue to contribute to this success from the Kassel site in the future - with LOEWE projects and ProLOEWE."

LOEWE is a state program to promote cutting-edge research at Hessian universities and research institutions. The ProLOEWE network brings together 14 LOEWE centers and 54 LOEWE focal points with a total of more than 1,580 employees.

Contact:

Tanja Desch

ProLOEWE. Network of LOEWE Research Projects
c/o University of Kassel

tanja.desch-proloewe[at]uni-kassel[dot]de

Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
Communication, Press and Public Relations
mense[at]uni-kassel[dot]de