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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Related Institutions
Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry
Institute for Catalysis Research and Technology
Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences
Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
Center for Emission Control Karlsruhe
Research PID
ORCID 0000-0001-9211-7529
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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 |