Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gregor Wehinger
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CS 30.44
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Institut für Chemische Verfahrenstechnik - CVT
KIT - Campus Süd
Gebäude 30.44
Fritz-Haber-Weg 2
76131 KarlsruheORCID-ID: 0000-0002-1774-3391
Brief description of the activities
Gregor D. Wehinger has been a university professor and head of the Institute of Chemical Process Engineering at KIT since October 2023. He studied Technology Management (Vordiplom) at the University of Stuttgart and Energy and Process Engineering at the TU Berlin and at the UPC in Barcelona. He wrote his dissertation on particle-resolved computational fluid dynamics of catalytic fixed-bed reactors at the Department of Process Engineering at TU Berlin with a research semester at Brown University. In his research and teaching, he deals with the fundamentals of chemical process engineering, focusing on the interactions between reaction and transport phenomena. The findings should help to make chemical processes sustainable.
Research Interests
- Multiscale modeling in chemical and electrochemical reaction engineering
- Process intensification with a focus on heat and mass transport
- Particle-resolved CFD simulations of fixed-bed reactors
- Customized reactor internals for gas-solid reactions
- Sustainable design of chemical processes
Relevant publications
For a complete list of publications see:
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ORCID
List of publications prior to 10/2023
Awards and Honors
| 2022 | Arnold Eucken Award 2022 of the VDI-GVC |
| 2022 | DECHEMA University Lecturer Young Talent Award for Process Engineering |
| 2019 | Prize of the Max Buchner Research Foundation |
| 2018 | Hanns Hofmann Award 2018 of the ProcessNet specialist group Reaction Engineering |
| 2018 | Senior Fellowship University Lecturer, Excellence in Teaching of Stifterverband |
| 2017 | BIMoS PhD Award of the Technical University of Berlin and Berlin International Graduate School in Model and Simulation based Research (BIMoS) |
| 2016 | Best Presentation Award at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2016 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| 2015 | DAAD Research Fellowship for stay at Brown University, USA |
| 2014 | Best Presentation Award at the AIChE Spring Meeting 2014 in New Orleans, LA, USA |
| 2009 | Erasmus scholarship for a stay at the UPC, Barcelona, Spain |
Memberships
| Since 2018 | Member of the Advisory board of DECHEMA/VDI Division Chemical Reaction Engineering |
| Since 2019 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Section of the DECHEMA/VDI Division Fluid Dynamics and Separation Technology |
| Since 2021 | Member of the Topic Editorial Board of the journal Catalysts (MDPI Verlag) |
| 2020-2022 | Member of the Board of the Junge Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (jBWG) |
| Since 2019 | Member of the jBWG |
| 2018-2022 | Spokesperson of the Young Reaction Engineering (NaWuReT) in the ProcessNet Division Chemical Reaction Engineering |
| 2018-2023 | Member of the Energy Research Center of Lower Saxony (EFZN), P2X technologies |
Career
| Since 2023 | University Professor and Head of the Institute of Chemical Process Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 2017-2023 | Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Dynamics of Chemical Processes at Clausthal University of Technology |
| 2016 | Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.), summa cum laude, at the Technical University of Berlin, with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kraume |
| 2015 | Research semester as a Research Fellow, DAAD scholarship, at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island/ USA with Prof. C. Franklin Goldsmith |
| 2013-2016 | Research assistant at the Department of Process Engineering, TU Berlin |
| 2007-2012 | Dipl.-Ing. degree in energy and process engineering, TU Berlin |
| 2009-2010 | Studied abroad at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona/Spain |
| 2005-2007 | Studies with Vordiplom in Technology Management, University of Stuttgart |
| 2004 | Abitur at Friedrich-Wöhler-Gymnasium, Singen (Hohentwiel) |