Robert Hahn is head of the Microenergy Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (Fraunhofer IZM) in Berlin. Since completing his diploma and doctoral studies in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden in 1986 and 1990, he has coordinated several national and European research projects for the development of new batteries and integrated power supplies for microsystems and autonomous electronics.

Dr. Hahn has registered 30 patents in the field of microenergy systems and has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal and conference articles as well as contributions to monographs. His research focuses on the development of lithium-ion and zinc microbatteries as well as hydrogen generation in galvanic cells.

He was the coordinator of the BMBF projects »PemGen« and »MetalFuel« and is currently leading the BMBF project »Zn-H2«.