Dr. Helmut Ehrenberg is Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Head of the Institute for Applied Materials (IAM). He addresses fundamentals and new materials for novel energy storage systems, development and processing of components for electrochemical energy storage devices and the integration of batteries into applications. He is speaker of the topic “Electrochemical Energy Storage” within the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF), a spokesperson of the cluster of excellence “energy storage beyond lithium” (POLiS) and the co-director of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CELEST).