Kevin Schalk is working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems in Bremerhaven since the start of 2020. He is part of the team and responsible for the construction of the Hydrogen Lab Bremerhaven which is being built as part of the EFRE-project “Hydrogen – Green Gas for Bremerhaven”. Additionally he is responsible for the future research activities in the testing facility. The main focus hereby lies on the research question how to integrate hydrogen into existing and new systems in the course of the energy transition.

Aside from the activities at Fraunhofer IWES, Kevin Schalk is deputy chairman of the Bremerhaven local hydrogen network “H2BX – Wasserstoff für die Region Bremerhaven e.V.”. The main emphasis here lies on networking activities especially regaring the technological and scientific players of the region as well as communication and transfer of knowledge for the general public. He has been active in the network since 2017.