Max Decker has been appointed Deputy Managing Director
At its autumn meeting, the members of the Executive Committee of FVV eV appointed Max Decker as new Deputy Managing Director. In this role, he will lead the research programme as well as the research association’s knowledge transfer and networking events. Max Decker forms part of the FVV’s management board alongside Managing Director Martin Nitsche, Deputy Managing Director Mathias Zelinger and the two Chairmen, Prof. Dr Markus Schwaderlapp and Christopher Steinwachs.
Max Decker, MSc (born 1987) studied mechanical engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. In 2019, he joined the FVV as a project manager for pre-competitive research within the framework of the Industrial Collective Research (IGF) programme and has since been overseeing projects in the fields of materials science and recycling, including critical raw materials and additive manufacturing, as well as zero-impact emissions, including non-exhaust emissions such as brake dust or tyre wear.
Previously, from 2015, he had worked as a technical manager, initially in the field of emissions legislation and type-approval within the Traffic Department of the VDMA eV. After moving within the VDMA Group to the Engines and Systems Association, he was responsible for the areas of international emissions legislation for engines and mobile machinery, as well as Power-to-X technologies.
In July 2022, Max Decker was appointed Managing Director of the German Research Association for Automation and Microelectronics (DFAM) eV. Like the FVV, DFAM is an Industrial Research Association within the Mechanical Engineering Research Federation (FKM) eV – the VDMA’s knowledge and cooperation platform for Research + Innovation and Industrial Collective Research (IGF).
In addition to the growing diversity of topics in pre-competitive research into sustainable energy conversion systems, the generational change within the FVV’s innovation and transfer network presents a challenge. Remaining technologically future-proof while preserving a transgenerational identity – this is the task to which the FVV’s newly completed management team intends to devote greater attention.
