Siemens AG
Erlangen, Germany
Scientist in Charge: Dr. Harald Schmidt
Expertise and experience
Siemens is one of the world's largest electrical engineering and electronics companies. In 2003, the company had roughly 417,000 employees of which 67% (278.000) were in Europe and the company has an annual turnover of €75,2 billion. At Corporate Technology, the department "Power Components and Superconductivity" has been mainly involved in the implementation of superconducting technologies for energy applications and magnet technology, since 1986. HTS demonstration models of practical size, such as fault current limiters, transformers, motors, magnetic bearings and MRI-magnets have been already successfully tested.
Within 20 years of R&D in superconductivity for power engineering and magnet technology Siemens was involved in several federal and international (EU) funded research projects involving partners from industry, universities and research institutes, including the network teams. In the framework of such projects, Masters and PhD students have performed their thesis work at Siemens. Training of students in the Siemens Corporate Technology laboratory provides close contact to highly skilled scientists and engineers coupled with an insight to industrial R&D activities.
Role in the project
Research and development projects at Siemens Corporate Technology are related to industrial application of superconductivity within the field of power engineering and magnet technology. Siemens will provide opportunity for researches to participate in ongoing R&D by means of research stays in the Siemens Corporate Technology laboratory. Guest researches will be put in charge of specific, well-defined R&D tasks, which will be embedded within ongoing projects at Siemens. These tasks shall be adequately assessed in order to be completed within the duration of the research stay. Siemens will lead WP4.
Key scientific staff
Key personnel involved in the project will be Dr. Heinz-Werner Neumüller (Division Head), Dr. Harald Schmidt (Principle Research Scientist ), Dr. Wolfgang Schmidt (Principle Research Scientist) and Dr. Marijn Oomen (Senior Research Scientist) assisted by other scientists to be appointed.