Andreas Reuter works as professor for wind energy technology at the Leibniz University of Hannover and managing director of the Fraunhofer IWES with a total of 220 scientific employees and a well-established testing infrastructure.
His education is in aviation and space technology, after completing his doctoral thesis on fatigue of wind turbines at the Technical University of Berlin he has worked in the wind industry for 15 years for companies such as Aerodyn, GE Energy and Bharat Forge as project engineer, director of engineering and managing director before returning into the scientific community in 2010.
The main focus of his current work is the structural analysis and design of large components such as offshore support structures and rotor blades.