Degenhard PEISKER heads the National Contact Point for the EU-Programs Energy /FP7, Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) and the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU) in Germany. He implements European and National Research Funding Programs in the field of non-nuclear energy technologies, including in his position at Project Management Jülich where he coordinated R&D project clusters and developed national funding programs. Since1995 he participates as National Expert in EU Energy Programme Committees supporting the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). He studied mining engineering at Technical University of Aachen (RWTH).