Dr. Carlos Härtel

Managing Director, GE Global Research Center Europe

General Electric (GE) has appointed Dr.-Ing. Carlos Härtel (44) as the new Managing Director of the GE Global Research Center Europe as of 18 June 2007. In his previous position, Dr. Carlos Härtel managed the Laboratory for Alternative Energies at the Global Research Center Europe. He played a key role in establishing partnerships with universities and companies and developed the scientific cooperation with various divisions of GE.

Prior to joining GE, Dr. Härtel held positions as scientist and manager in the development of gas turbines at Alstom (Schweiz) AG. He studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen and at the Technical University of Munich. He received a doctorate from the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center), Göttingen, and spent several years in research at ETH Zurich, where he qualified as a university lecturer in 1999. Dr. Härtel owns several patents and has published over fifty scientific papers.

The GE Global Research Center in Garching near Munich is one of four GE Research Centers worldwide. The main areas of research are alternative and renewable energy sources, manufacturing technologies for composite materials, instrumentation for security applications and imaging technologies for medical diagnostics.