Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern

Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, 2013, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern (*August 9, 1956 in Mittweida, Germany) is a German Process Engineer. He is a Director[1] of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and Chair of Chemical Engineering at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.

Education & professional career

Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern graduated from Technische Hochschule Leuna-Merseburg and received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1987. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville he defended a Habilitation at the Technical University Berlin in 1994. Subsequently he worked for Schering AG in Berlin, before becoming in 1995 Professor of Chemical Process Engineering at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. In 2002 he was appointed as a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, where he is head of the “Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering” group. The research interests of Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern include heterogeneous catalysis, adsorption and preparative chromatography, crystallization and the development of new reactor concepts. The results of his work are published in more than 400 research papers. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern received the Max Buchner Award of DECHEMA (2000), holds Honorary Doctorates of the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark) and the Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland). He is Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Major research interests [2]

Awards & honors (selection)

Jahr Position
2016 - Vice-President of the International Adsorption Society (IAS) [3]
2015 Humanity in Science Award, granted by Phenomenex and The Analytical Scientist[4]
2013 - Member of Editorial Board of "Adsorption" (Springer US)
2012 - Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering "Acatech"
2012 Honorary Doctorate „Doctor technices h.c.“ at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU, Odense, Denmark)[5]
2010 - Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2010 - Member of Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society (IAS)
2008 - 2014 Member of "Commission for the Collaborative Research Centers" (German Science Foundation, DFG)
2008 Honorary Doctorate „Science in Technology” at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT, Lappeenranta, Finland)[6]
2007 - Member of Editorial Board of the "Chemical Engineering Journal" (Elsevier, Amsterdam)
2006 - Member of Working Party "Chemical Reaction Engineering" (European Federation of Chemical Engineering, EFCE)
2005 - Member of Board of Trustees of the Journals "Chemical Engineering & Technology" and "Chemie Ingenieurtechnik" (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim)
2003 - 2008 Elected member of Board of Reviewers of the German Science Foundation for the fields of "Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering"
2002 Otto von Guericke Research Award of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg[7]
2001 - Member of International Editorial Board of "Journal of Chromatography A" (Elsevier, Amsterdam)
2001 - Member of Board of Trustees of Ernest Solvay Foundation, Hanover
1999 Max Buchner Award of Dechema e.V.[8]
1999 - Member of Otto von Guericke Society, Magdeburg
1998 - Member of Board of “Technical Reactions” (DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt/M.)
1998 - 2002: External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg
1992 - 1994: Grant of German Science Foundation (DFG) to support Habilitation
1991 - 1992: Grant of the Scientific Council of NATO to support a Post-Doc stay in the USA

Publications (selection)

Journal and Book Contributions, Patents

External links

References

  1. ↑ Profile of Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern at MPI Magdeburg
  2. ↑ Research Group of Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern at MPI Magdeburg
  3. ↑ Website of IAS Board of Directors
  4. ↑ Website Humanity in Science Award
  5. ↑ Report of University of Southern Denmark
  6. ↑ Press release Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (in German)
  7. ↑ Press release of Otto von Guericke University (in German)
  8. ↑ Article of prozesstechnik-online (in German)
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