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Bernhard Dietrich heads the Competence Centre.

Bernhard Dietrich heads the competence center and is responsible for the center's projects and strategic development. He worked for many years in various management positions and business units of the Lufthansa Group, most recently as head of the Environmental Concepts department. Earlier professional positions included consulting and project management positions at Roland Berger and Partner. He also taught at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer for sustainability management in the aviation and tourism industry. Bernhard Dietrich holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering (TU Munich-Weihenstephan) and a degree in Industrial Engineering (TU Munich).

Léonie Lauer is deputy head at CENA and responsible for "Decarbonization and Communications".

Léonie Lauer is an environmental scientist (M. Sc.) and deputy head of the competence centre. In the area of decarbonization, she is responsible for acquiring projects and designing specialist events, among other things. She also manages the aviation application field in the nationwide "InnoFuels" cluster project. As a communications expert for energy, sustainability and climate protection, she is the contact person for press and public relations.

Alexander Zschocke is responsible for "Sustainable Aviation Fuels" at the Competence Centre.

Dr. Alexander Zschocke is responsible for the field of alternative energies in the aviation sector at CENA. This mainly includes Sustainable Aviation Fuels, e.g. in the management of the projects "RePoSe" and "P2Fuels", but also electric and hydrogen powered aircraft. Dr. Zschocke is an economist (University of Cologne) and a specialist in Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). He worked for 30 years at Deutsche Lufthansa in various functions, interspersed with activities for Thomas Cook, BMI, aireg/DBFZ, SunExpress and as an independent consultant. He has been active in SAF since 2010, in particular in the burnFAIR, HBBA and DEMO-SPK projects, and was Chairman of the European Commission's Flightpath 2020 from 2013 to 2016. In 2023, he received the ASTM Award of Appreciation for leading the ASTM approval of the ATJ-SKA fuel.