Ingo Saas

Ingo Sass studied geosciences in Hamburg and Karlsruhe and completed his doctorate at the former Karlsruhe University of Technology, now KIT. He has been a professor at TU Darmstadt since 2005, where he now represents the ‘Applied Geothermal Energy’ department. Since 2021, he has headed the ‘Geoenergy’ section at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. He is a publicly appointed and sworn expert for geothermal energy, deep drilling technology and well construction and has been a consulting engineer for geothermal energy and geotechnics at the Chamber of Consulting Engineers since 2004. As co-author of the ‘Roadmap Geothermal Energy’ published by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Helmholtz Association in February 2022, he is convinced that decarbonisation in the heating sector in Germany can only succeed with geothermal energy.