Dr. Jakob Burger

Professor

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Biography

Professor Jakob Burger works on conceptual design processes in chemistry and biotechnology. His applications focus on synthetic fuels based on C1-chemistry, downstreaming aqueous solutions, and white biotech processes. By conducting experiments on both laboratory and pilot-plant scales, Professor Burger develops computer-aided methods for process design, short-cut apparatus models, and Pareto optimization. He studied process engineering at the University of Stuttgart, which included a stay abroad in Kyoto, Japan. Professor Burger completed his doctorate in the Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics at the University of Kaiserslautern in 2012. Following a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London in 2013, he returned to the University of Kaiserslautern, where he took up the position of assistant professor for Process Design of Raw Material Change. In 2017, Professor Burger was appointed to the Chair of Chemical Process Engineering at the Technical University of Munich.

Research Interests

Experience

Chair

2017-01-01 — Present

Chemical Process Engineering • Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Leading the department in researching and developing new processes in chemical engineering.

Assistant Professor

2013-01-01 — 2017-01-01

Process Design of Raw Material Change • University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Involved in academic instruction and research in process design.