Dr. Björn Wolf
Head of Technology Transfer 
and Innovation

tel: +49 351 260-2615

e-mail: b.wolf@hzdr.de

• Business networking
• Financing of transfer projects
• Management of the HZDR Innovation Fund
• Support for spin-offs
• Investment management
• Negotiation of contract terms
• Controlling and reporting

Dr. Thuro Arnold
Innovation Manager Resource Ecology

tel: +49 351 260-2432

e-mail: t.arnold@hzdr.de

Uwe Pöpping
Innovation Manager Fluid Dynamics

tel +49 351 260-2397

e-mail: u.poepping@hzdr.de

Dorit Teichmann
Innovation Manager Life Science

tel: +49 351 260-2800

e-mail: d.teichmann@hzdr.de

Stephan Krüger
Innovation Manager
Physical Technologies / New Materials 

tel: +49 351 260-2180

e-mail: s.krueger@hzdr.de

Stefanie Hartmann
Innovation Manager

tel: +49 351 260-2710

e-mail: stefanie.hartmann@hzdr.de

Christian Stewart Christesen
Innovations Manager
Resource Technologies

Tel.: +49 351 260 4402

E-Mail: c.christesen@hzdr.de

• Evaluation of inventions and technologies with regard to their application potential and usability
• Development of systematic exploitation strategies for the commercial exploitation of research results
• Business networking, customer acquisition and customer care
• Support for the preparation of offers and transfer-related grant applications
• Contract negotiations 
• Management of technology transfer projects
• Support for spin-offs

Sebastian Löbelt-Friedrich
Spin-Off Manager

tel: +49 351 463-31627

e-mail: sebastian.friedrich@dresden-exists.de

• Support for spin-offs
• Consultation with company founders and transfer project representatives of the HZDR, IFW and IPF

Melanie Giebel

Tel.: +49 351 260 2062

e-Mail: m.giebel@hzdr.de

• Technology marketing
• Event Management, e.g. regarding education for technology transfer managers

Noora Kinnunen

Tel.: +49 351 260 2374

E-Mail: n.kinnunen@hzdr.de

• Establishment of an alumni network at the HZDR

Merit Grzeganek

Rechtsassessorin

tel: +49 351 260-3080

e-mail: m.grzeganek@hzdr.de

Martina Moravcikova

Rechtsassesorin

tel: +49 351 260-3647

e-mail: m.moravcikova@hzdr.de

• Contracts, e.g. regarding
  • R&D
  • cooperations (incl. EU consortium contracts)
  • licenses
  • purchases and hire
  • services
• Other legal issues, e.g. regarding
  • offers
  • liabilities
  • grants
  • claims
  • software
  • spin-offs

Karina Sattler
Contract Management
Team Assistant 

tel: +49 351 260 3648

e-mail: vertragsverwaltung@hzdr.de

Anja Pintaske
Contract Management
Team Assistant

tel.: +49 351 260 2161

e-mail: vertragsverwaltung@hzdr.de

• Contract management
• Changes in contract status (termination, extension)
• Administration
• Assessment requests (Sachstandsanfragen), general information requests

Dr. Martin Hiller
Patentassessor

tel: +49 351 260-3038

e-mail: patente@hzdr.de

• Advice for inventors on property rights issues
• Processing of invention disclosures, assesment of inventions under technical and property rigths aspects
• Preparation of patent and trademark applications
• Processing of national and international registration and examination procedures
• Monitoring of the patent portfolio
• Advice on issues pertaining to employee inventions law

Linda Mißbach
Patents
Team Assistant

tel: +49 351 260-2273

e-mail: patente@hzdr.de

• Queries pertaining to procedures, documents and inventor compensation
• Document and deadline formalities
• Database maintenance
• Payments pertaining to property rights