Dr. Marcel Schaefer
Senior Program Coordinator
Fraunhofer USA

Dr. Marcel Schaefer has been leading the Fraunhofer USA office in South Carolina since March 2021. He is the Senior Program Coordinator for Fraunhofer USA’s activities within the South Carolina Fraunhofer USA Alliance that offer a 50% co-funding on all projects with Fraunhofer. Projects so far cover a broad spectrum ranging from smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, digitization to predictive analytics to sustainability, renewable energy, battery, hydrogen, and other innovative and emerging technologies. Typically, those projects have a strong manufacturing focus.

Dr. Marcel Schaefer has been a Senior Research Scientist for Fraunhofer USA since January 2019. From 2009 to 2018 he was with Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technologies SIT in Darmstadt, Germany. He holds a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and a PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. As PI, Co-PI and researcher Dr. Schaefer has led and worked in various projects that discover new challenges and opportunities in both the public and private sector.

Marcel is thriving to institutionalize Fraunhofer USA as an established organization in the US and to bring the newest technology "made by Fraunhofer" from the global Fraunhofer network into the US.