Dr. Peter Klein is a senior scientist at Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), Kaiserslautern, Germany. He holds a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, with a thesis on “Klassische und Tight-Binding Molekulardynamik für niederenergetische Prozesse in Materialien”. 

During his 20+ years at the ITWM Dr. Klein held various R&D roles at several departments, covering fluid dynamics, parallelization, molecular dynamics, development of production devices and medical applications. Since his PhD thesis, Peter is working on multiscale models for materials, with a focus on surface and interface related phenomena. The current research focus of Peter is the area of business decision support systems, where he couples materials modelling with multi-criteria optimization methods, and their integration in platforms supporting open innovation processes along value chains.