New director of the FHNW School of Engineering and Environment

In view of the current challenges in the area of climate change, the scarcity of resources and the transformation in energy supply, the teaching and research at the FHNW School of Engineering will be supplemented with the area of environment from the beginning of 2025. For this purpose, new courses of study will be created and the corresponding institutes and laboratory facilities will be built. From 2025, the name of the university will be "Hochschule für Technik und Umwelt FHNW".

Dr. Peter Flohr (56) graduated in aerospace engineering from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in 1993 and obtained his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge (England) in 1998. From 1998 to 2020, he held various technical and management positions at ABB, Alstom, and General Electric, during which time he brought a large number of projects to success. Since 2020, Dr. Peter Flohr has been working at the ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur as a department head. In this role, he currently heads various institutes and degree programs and actively promotes strategic development projects as a member of the department management.

Dr. Peter Flohr will start at the FHNW on April 1, 2024 and will take over the strategic and operational management of the new School of Engineering and Environment FHNW as of Jan. 1, 2025. In his role as the new director, he will expand the university's regional and national network, lead the transformation of the university into the future School of Engineering and Environment UASNW, promote the associated positioning of the university and its education and training offerings, and share responsibility for the development of the UASNW as a member of the Executive Board of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland UASNW. Prof. Jürg Christener, who has been Director of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW since its foundation, will retire at the end of May 2024.

Source: FHNW