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Electrical and control engineer. Electrical Engineering PhD on "Multidisciplinary Optimization of Drag Power Kites" from Technical University of Munich. Published more than a dozen of research papers about flying wind turbine technology. Inventor of 4 patents pending and one granted. Passionate about renewable energies and anything that flies.
Renewable energy engineer. Co-founder of climate NGO "Protect Our Winters Germany" which aims to shed light on the climate impact of winter sport activities and how to minimize them. Former start-up consultant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Aerodynamics engineer, graduated in M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Munich. Focused on aircraft, helicopter, and wind turbine technology. Responsible for aerodynamics, special interest in rotor aerodynamics. Personal motivation powered by the vision of changing the world's energy generation.
Graduated in M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Munich. Generalist and responsible for the mechanical aspects of Kitekraft's systems. Heavy interest in sustainability, social, and technological advances tackling climate change to which the solutions lie in the "We", not in the "I".
Renewable energy engineer. Co-founder of climate NGO "Protect Our Winters Germany" which aims to shed light on the climate impact of winter sport activities and how to minimize them. Former start-up consultant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Aerodynamics engineer, graduated in M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Munich. Focused on aircraft, helicopter, and wind turbine technology. Responsible for aerodynamics, special interest in rotor aerodynamics. Personal motivation powered by the vision of changing the world's energy generation.
Graduated in M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Munich. Generalist and responsible for the mechanical aspects of Kitekraft's systems. Heavy interest in sustainability, social, and technological advances tackling climate change to which the solutions lie in the "We", not in the "I".
Software
Control Software
Manufacturing
High Power Electronics
Aero-Structural Optimization
Life-Cycle Assessment
Propulsion
Professor at the Chair of High-Power Converter Systems, Technical University of Munich
Professor (retired) at the Institute for Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics, Technical University of Munich
Professor for Wind Energy, Technical University of Munich
Ex-CFO Enerjisa, E.ON (prev. VERBUND)
Kitekraft's technology is based on scientific research done during Florian's time as a PhD research student at the Technical University of Munich. Here you can find a list of the publications.
Florian Bauer. “Multidisciplinary Optimization of Drag Power Kites”. Dissertation. Technical University of Munich. 2021. Download: PDF.
André Frirdich. “Rotor Design Procedure for a Drag Power Kite”. Master thesis. Technical University of Munich. 2019. Download: PDF.
Christoph Drexler. “Design by Optimization of a Multi-Element Airfoil for
Drag Power Kite”. Master thesis. Technical University of Munich. 2019. Download: PDF.
During summer 2019 we were accepted into Silicon Valley's Y Combinator.
Since then we've received multiple awards, public, and private funding for our work on a technology relevant to climate change and other topics, such as digitization.
Most recently we got accepted into the RESPOND accelerator.
To make the future of wind energy not only more efficient, but also safer and more accepted, we are cooperating with or are members of the following institutions and associations.
Flying wind turbines.
