CORRESPONDING MEMBER

Ralf Gerdes is Head of Product Development and Engineering of Sulzer Pumps. He is located in Winterthur, Switzerland. He has been with Sulzer since 2006 and had various positions in the turbo machinery industry.

Previously, he was with Alstom and responsible for the global development of steam turbines. Ralf Gerdes received his M.S degree (Turbo machinery, 1990) and his Ph.D. (Engineering Mechanics, 1995) from the technical University of Braunschweig (Germany).