External Collaborators

Collaborator	Contributions to SmartProSys	Status of Collaborations, Selected Joint Publications
Prof. Ina Vollmer University of Utrecht, The Netherlands	Reactive milling and pyrolysis processes for plastic waste	Newly agreed collaboration
Prof. Catherine O'Sullivan Imperial College London, London, UK	Computing drag and interactions between fluid and polydisperse particles	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Peter Seeberger Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC), Delitzsch, Germany	Transfer of process systems engineering methodologies to industry; scale-up of processes for plastic waste conversion	Newly agreed collaboration
Xi’An Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	Supercritical decomposition of plastic particles	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Martha Grover Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA	Modeling and control of reactive crystallization processes	Newly agreed collaboration (supported by Ernst Dieter Gilles Lecture Award of MPI-DCTS)
Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	Machine learning-supported solvent design for lignin-first biorefineries and lignin upgrading	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Alain Vande Wouwer University of Mons, Belgium	Process modeling and control	Ongoing collaboration

Collaborator	Contributions to SmartProSys	Status of Collaborations, Selected Joint Publications
Prof. Troels Skrydstrup Aarhus University, Denmark	Efficient catalyst systems for sustainable chemical conversion pathways	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Tapio Salmi Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland	Kinetic modeling of complex catalytic reactions	Newly agreed collaboration
Prof. Tamás Turányi Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary	Identification and simplification of reaction networks	Ongoing collaboration

Collaborator	Contributions to SmartProSys	Status of Collaborations, Selected Joint Publications
Prof. Jennifer Wilcox University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA	Carbon capture and CO2 lean production technologie	Ongoing collaboration (supported by Max Planck Sabbatical Award)
Prof. Michal Tzur Tel Aviv University, Israel	Supply chain management optimization and sustainable operations	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Nancy Bocken Maastricht University, The Netherlands	New routes to value preservation in a sufficiency-based circular economy	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Christian Klöckner Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway	Modeling of environmentally relevant decisions and behaviors, innovative environmental communication methods	Ongoing collaboration
Dr. Andreas Förster DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany	Bridging into various stakeholder groups involved in the transformation of the carbon-based chemical industry	Newly agreed collaboration

Collaborator	Contributions to SmartProSys	Status of Collaborations, Selected Joint Publications
Prof. Karen E. Willcox Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA	MOR and learning of dynamical systems for DT; Uncertainty Quantification	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Lorenz Biegler Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA	Advanced optimization methods for chemical processes	Ongoing collaboration
Dr. Sven Leyffer Argonne National Lab, Argonne, USA	Modeling expertise and optimization algorithms	Ongoing collaboration
Prof. Serkan Gugercin Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA	MOR and data-driven modeling	Ongoing collaboration