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Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Grützner

  • Deputy Director
  • Group leader Thermal Process Engineering
  • Lectures
    • Technische Thermodynamik (B.Sc.)
    • Thermodynamik der Gemische (B.Sc.)
    • Thermische Verfahrenstechnik (B.Sc.)
    • Thermal Process Engineering II (M.Sc.)
    • Thermal Process Engineering III (M.Sc.)

Scientific Career

1994 - 1999Process Engineering studies at TH Nürnberg
1999 - 2001Process- and Chemical Engineering studies TU Clausthal
2001 - 2006Doctorate at the Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Hasse), University of Stuttgart
2006 - 2017Employee of the division "Research & Development" of Lonza AG, Switzerland in different functions: Engineer responsible for thermal seperations equipment design, project manager and head of the competence center "Thermal Process Engineering"
since 2017

Professor at the Institute for Chemical Engineering, Îçҹ̽»¨

Head of the research group "Thermal Process Engineering"

Memberships and Functions

  • Appointed member of the Board of Editors of the Springer Nature Journal ‘Discover Chemical Engineering’ (since 2024)
  • Elected member of the board of DECHEMA/VDI division "Fluid Dynamics and Separation Technology" (since 2024)
  • Appointed member of the ProcessNet working party "Thermodynamik" (2015 - 2019)
  • Appointed member of the DECHEMA/VDI working party "Fluidverfahrenstechnik" (since 2018)
  • Member of the admission commitee "Chemical Engineering" at Îçҹ̽»¨  (since 2021)
  • Vice chairman of the examination board "Chemical Engineering" at Îçҹ̽»¨ (since 2021)
  • Member of the doctoral committee "Dr.-Ing." at Îçҹ̽»¨ (since 2020)
  • Member of the board of topic editors of MDPI "ChemEngineering" Journal (since 2019)
  • Fellow of the Center for Energy Research and Technology, Ulm (since 2019)
  • Host of the Podcast "" (since 2022)

Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, German Scholar Organization (GSO) and multiple national Universities.

Journal Reviewer for

  • AIChE Journal
  • Chimia
  • Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quaterly
  • ChemBioChem
  • ChemBioEng Reviews
  • ChemEngineering
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification
  • Chemical Engineering Research and Design
  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Digital Chemical Engineering
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Processes
  • Reviews in Chemical Engineering
  • Separation and Purification Technology
  • The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

 

Publications