Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wetzel holds the Chair of Heat and Mass Transfer at the Institute of Thermal Process Engineering (TVT), he is Head of the Karlsruhe Liquid Metal Laboratory (KALLA) at IKET. His expertise is in the fields: heat and mass transfer research - particularly complex heat transfer in single and multiphase flows, thermal and electrochemical energy storage, renewable energy - especially solar thermal, experience in chemical and process industry as well as automotive industry.