Hon. Prof. Dr. Sascha Peters

Hon. Prof. Dr. Sascha Peters is founder and owner of the material and technology agency HAUTE INNOVATION in Berlin. He studied mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and product design at the ABK Maastricht, Netherlands. He investigated communication problems between engineering and design in his doctoral thesis which he completed at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. From 1997 to 2003, he led research projects and product developments at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen and subsequently became deputy head of the Design Zentrum Bremen until 2008. Sascha Peters is author of various specialist books on sustainable raw materials, smart materials, innovative production techniques and energetic technologies. He is a leading material expert and trend scout for new technologies. Since 2014, he has been an advisory board member of the funding initiative “Zwanzig20 – Partnerschaft für Innovation” (2020 – Partnership for innovation) commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.