
Harald Hauf
Sales Manager
UP Catalyst
Harald is a French-German physicist with a career spanning over four decades. He has consistently worked at the intersection of industrial innovation and the global energy transition. With a strong foundation in semiconductors, renewables, and nano-manufacturing, his professional journey has taken him across Europe, the United States, and Asia, where he held key roles from R&D to General Management in both multinational corporations and start-ups.
He contributed extensively to a leading U.S.-based semiconductor company, advancing capital equipment and reactor technologies. He later ran a renewable energy start-up, where he drove embedded software solutions. His work in nanotechnology further established his reputation for transforming frontier science into first-of-kind industrial applications.
Currently, he is fanning out the conversion of CO₂ into industrial-grade carbon raw materials.