From Idea to Innovation: A Career Path Between Entrepreneurship and Energy Research

How impulses from entrepreneurship teaching at RPTU shaped an industrial engineer’s path between start-ups, the energy sector, and research.

Julius Remmlinger chose to study industrial engineering with a focus on chemistry at RPTU Kaiserslautern to combine science and practical application. A key influence during his master’s studies was the entrepreneurship teaching by Prof. Dr. Dennis Steininger, where he developed business models and explored how investors evaluate start-ups—an experience that strongly shaped his further specialization.

Alongside his studies, he gained hands-on experience, from founding his own start-up to completing his master’s thesis at EnBW, working on strategic challenges in the energy sector. After graduating, he moved into venture capital, analyzing start-ups in the energy and climate tech space. Today, he has returned to academia: as part of a European doctoral network, he researches the integration of renewable energy systems, demonstrating how curiosity, practical experience, and academic depth can come together.

Read the full RPTU Story article about his journey between entrepreneurship, the energy sector, and research here.