Prof. Dr. Olaf Deutschmann
- Office Hours:
appointment by request only
- Room: 105.2, Bldg. 11.21, Campus South (Engesserstr. 20, 76131 Karlsruhe)
- Phone: +49 721 608-43064 (secretary)
- Fax: +49 721 608-44805
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Education/ Degrees
| 2001 Habilitation / Privatdozent (Venia legendi in Physical Chemistry) Department of Chemistry, University of Heidelberg Thesis: Interactions between transport and chemistry in catalytic reactors Mentor: Jürgen Warnatz |
| 1996 PhD in Chemistry (Dr. rer. nat.) Department of Chemistry, University of Heidelberg PhD thesis: Modeling of Surface Reactions and their Coupling with Chemically Reacting Flows Advisor: Jürgen Warnatz |
| 1991 MS in Physics (Diplom-Physiker) Technical University "Otto von Guericke" Magdeburg MS thesis: Theoretical Investigation of Flame Instabilities and their Description with Chaos-Theory Advisor: Rainer Grabski |
Work History
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since 11/06 |
KIT (former University of Karlsruhe), Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry Professor (W3/Full, Chair in Chemical Technology) |
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4/03 - 10/06 |
University of Karlsruhe, Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry Professor (C3/Assoc.) |
| 8/98 - 3/03 | University of Heidelberg, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) Assistant Professor (Wiss. Assistent / Hochschuldozent) |
| 7/98 - 8/98 | Los Alamos National Laboratory, Division of Chemical Science and Technology, Los Alamos, NM, USA Consultant |
| 4/97 - 6/98 | University of Minnesota, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minneapolis, MN, USA Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Lanny D. Schmidt |
| 11/94 - 3/97 | University of Heidelberg, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) Research Fellow with Jürgen Warnatz |
| 3/92 - 10/94 | University of Stuttgart, Institute for Technical Combustion Research Fellow with Jürgen Warnatz |
Honors
| 2018 | Fellow of The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, USA, for pioneering research in heterogeneous catalysis in support of combustion and energy-conversion technologies. |
| 2006 | Offer for Chair in Combustion Technology at University of Stuttgart (declined) |
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2004 |
DECHEMA Award of the Max Buchner Research Foundation |
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2001 |
Distinguished Lecturer Series, Catalysis Center of the University of California at Berkeley |
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1996 |
Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a one-year research visit abroad |
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1991 |
Hermann - Oberth - Medal in Silver, Student Award of the International Astronautical Federation |
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1991 |
Award of the Department of Science for best graduation of the year, Technical University of Magdeburg |
Further Activities
| 2020 | Co-Speaker of National Research Data Infrastructure for for Catalysis-Related Sciences "NFDI4Cat" |
| 2017 | Visiting Professor (6 months) at Colorado School of Mines, Dept. Mech. Eng., working with Robert J. Kee |
| since 2016 | Adjunct member of the KIT Department of Chemical and Process Engineering |
| 2015-2018 | Editorial Board of "International Journal of Chemical Kinetics" |
| since 2014 | Editorial Board of "Journal of Emission Control Science and Technology" |
| since 2014 | Coordinator at KIT of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR150) "Turbulent, chemically reacting, multi-phase flows near walls" |
| since 2013 | Editorial Board of "The Proceedings of The Combustion Institute" |
| since 2013 | Member of the Board (Beirat) of the Working group (Fachgruppe) "Reaction Engineering" (Reaktionstechnik) of ProcessNet |
| since 2011 | Head of Exhaus-Gas Center Karlsruhe |
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since 2011 |
Head of Division "Modeling and Simulation" and Member of the Board of Directors at Institute for Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) of KIT |
| since 2010 | Speaker of the Helmholtz Research School Energy-Related Catalysis |
| since 2009 | Head of Enermat Lab (Materials for Energy Systems and Processes), collaboration of EIFER and KIT |
| since 2008 | Director of Steinbeis Transfer Center Reactive Flows, an enterprise of the Steinbeis GmbH & Co. KG für Technologietransfer, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2008 - 2011 | Vice Dean (Chemistry) of Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences |
| 2007 - 2012 | Head of Group “Chemical Process Engineering” at Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies (IKET) of KIT (former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) |
| 2007 - 2011 | Speaker of the research field “Fuel and Combustion” at KIT |
| 2005 - 2010 | Editorial Board of „Combustion and Flame“ |
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2005 - 2007
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Chairman of the Karlsruhe Chemical Society |