René received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. in Engineering Cybernetics from the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany, in 2007 and 2014, respectively. From 2007 until 2012, he had been a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany. From 2013 until 2016, he was with the German Aerospace Center at the Institute of Transportation Systems in Braunschweig, Germany. Till 2021 René leat the Process Systems Engineering group at the Institute of Energy and Process Systems Engineering at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Since September 2021, he has been a professor of Smart Manufacturing/Industry4.0 at the Harz University of Applied Sciences. His current research interests include process digitalization, sensitivity/uncertainty analysis, model-based optimal experimental design, and hybrid modeling in the field of process systems engineering.