Prof. Dr. Frank Messerer

Career

Frank Messerer (b. 1971) studied electrical and computer engineering with a focus on electrical power engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He graduated with a degree in engineering in 1996. From 1996 to late 2001, he served as Akademischer Rat at the Chair of High Voltage Engineering and Switchgear Technology at the Technical University of Munich. In 2001, he received his doctorate with a thesis on Gas-Insulated Substation (GIS) for HVDC.

Since the summer semester of 1999, Prof. Messerer has been a lecturer at the Chair of High Voltage Engineering, since 2002, as lecturer at the TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and, since 2018, as a TUM Honorary Professor for Electric Fields in the Domain of Power Engineering.

Prof. Messerer has held various positions in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs since 2002. He has been a senior administrative officer and deputy head of the office since April 2026. 

Functions

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the holding company of the Environmental Technology Business Start-up Center in Augsburg (BUGA)
• Member of the advisory council of Bayernwerk AG Regensburg
• Member of the Board of Directors of the ifo Institute
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Messe München GmbH
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Nuremberg Airport
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Bayern International GmbH
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
• Member of the Strategy Council of the Bavarian Research and Innovation Agency (BayFIA)