
Forschungszentrum AZARE
Anwendungszentrum für alle regenerativen Energieformen zur Dekarbonisierung von Verkehr, Gebäuden und Industrie
Prof. Dr. Thomas Heimer
I have been Professor of Innovation Management at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (HSRM) since 2009. My research focus is on economic technology and innovation research. I work primarily in the field of technology genesis and climate policy effects. Empirically, I work in the field of digitalization and decarbonization in the transport and building sector. I am also a member of the Expert Council for Climate Issues.
- Since 2009
Professor of Innovation Management and Project Management at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (HSRM), Rüsselsheim, and Honorary Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt am Main - Scientific Director of Technopolis Deutschland GmbH, a research and consulting institute for innovation and technology policy, Frankfurt am Main
- 2018 - 2022
Head of the IMPACT RheinMain project funded by the "Innovative Hochschule" program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the "Joint Economic Conference" - 1999 - 2009
Professor of Innovation Management and Managing Dean of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt am Main - 1995 - 1999
Head of the Society Division at the VDI/VDE Technology Center for Information Technology, Teltow - 1988 - 1995
Consultant and lecturer for the design and implementation of European adult education as part of the activities of the European Social Fund - 1988 - 1995
Research assistant at the Department of Economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt - 1993
Doctorate with the topic "On the economics of the emergence of technologies" - 1990 - 1991
DAAD guest lecturer in economics at the University of Leipzig - 1990
Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York - 1983 - 1988
Studies of economics at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
- Member of the Expert Council for Climate Issues
- Chairman of the "Go-Cluster" advisory board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection until 2024
- Chairman of the Carolinum Foundation
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Gewobau Rüsselsheim
- Innofuels, Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport
- Smart Living Hessen Cluster, HessenAgentur (until the end of 2023)
- IMPACT RheinMain as part of the Innovative Hochschule program, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (until the end of 2022)
Expert Council for Climate Issues (ed.), 2023, Review report on the calculation of German greenhouse gas emissions for the year 2022
Expert Council for Climate Issues (ed.), 2022, Biennial report 2022
Expert Council for Climate Issues (ed.), 2022, Review report on the 2022 immediate action programs for the building and transport sectors
Expert Council for Climate Issues (ed.), 2022, Report on the previous year's estimate of German greenhouse gas emissions for 2021
Blind, Knut, Marianne Kulicke, Thomas Heimer, Stephan Kreuzter, Heike Nachtigall, Lisa Pschorn, Christian Rammer, Bettina Müller, 2021, Cross-sectional evaluation "Support landscape for innovative start-ups"
Expert Council for Climate Issues (ed.), 2021, Report on the previous year's estimate of German greenhouse gas emissions for 2020
Rammer, Christian, Lena Füner, Sandra Gottschalk, Hannes Marks, Thomas Heimer, Heike Nachtigall, Jerome Treperman, 2020, Correlation between the implementation of digitization and innovation projects in SMEs, report to KfW Bankengruppe

Rüsselsheim Campus, Room A010
Am Brückweg 26, 65428 Rüsselsheim
Email: thomas.heimer(at)hs-rm.de
Mobile: +49 173 7250913