Andreas joins Breakthrough Energy’s Innovator Fellows program from Ferrum Technologies in Vienna, Austria. Andy is a trained metallurgist with a focus on iron & steel, and he is the founder and CEO of Ferrum Technologies.

Steel is foundational to global society—this industry emits 7 to 9% of global CO₂ emissions. Ferrum Technologies is committed to eradicating this core problem and making steel production CO₂ free. Its world-class technical team is commercializing a technology, which makes existing and trusted low-emission steel production technologies cost competitive to CO₂-intensive processes while also decoupling them from critical raw materials constraints. Through the fellowship program Andreas and his team aim to derisk the technology further and scale it up to industrial scale.

Andreas earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in metallurgy from the University of Leoben. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in international business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. After his time at Voestalpine, a global technology leader in the field, he spent two years on the investment team of Speedinvest, the largest seed venture capital fund in Europe.