External Collaborators
Process Level
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 |
Molecular Level
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 |
System Level
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 |
Computational Methods & Algorithms
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 |