Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Schweiger was born in Ingolstadt 1977. He studied chemistry at the University of Regensburg (Germany) from 1998 to 2002 and graduated as Dipl.-Chem. in 2002. He started his PhD thesis in the field of electrochemistry in the workgroup of Professor Heiner J. Gores at the University of Regensburg (Germany) and in the end of 2004 he received his Dr. rer. nat. degree in chemistry there.  

He joined EVA Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH (Munich) as a development engineer for HEV energy storage systems in 2005. In this position, he was appointed as an engineering consultant to BMW AG (Munich, Germany). January 2007 he joined the HEV department of Continental AG (Berlin, Germany). In this company, he worked as an expert for lithium ion batteries, In 2008 he was appointed as project leader for energy storage systems in the same company. In this position, he was leading series development projects for HEV and EV battery systems as well one basic research project for the development of 5 V Lithium ion cells. 

He was also part time lecturer on electrochemical energy storage systems at the Technical University of Berlin (2009-2011). 2011 Prof. Dr. Schweiger was appointed as Professor for Automotive Electronics and Electric Mobility at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt.  He founded the research group “Safe Electromobility”. 2020 this research group was transformed into CARISSMA Institute of Electric, COnnected, and Secure Mobility  for . Since then, he is head of this research Institute. 

The primary field of his group are energy storage systems for automotive applications and automotive safety of electric vehicles. His workgroup of 17 coworkers is working on 9 industry and government financed research projects in the field of automotive energy storage systems. He is also director of study programs in the field electric engineering and electric mobility. He author/coauthor of more than 39 research papers and he holds more than 10 patents. He is member of IEEE, VDE and VHB.