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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Roland Dittmeyer

  • Institut für Mikroverfahrenstechnik (IMVT)
    Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

    KIT Campus Nord
    Gebäude 605

    Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
    D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth 11.10.1964  
   

Education

 1989 Dipl.-Ing. (Chem. Eng.), Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Germany, 1989
1994 Dr.-Ing. (Chem. React. Eng.), Erlangen-Nürnberg University
2001 Habilitation (Technical Chemistry), Erlangen-Nürnberg University
   

Employment

 1990-1991 Research Associate, Erlangen-Nürnberg University
1991-1996 Research Assistant, Erlangen-Nürnberg University
1996-1998 Assistant Professor, Erlangen-Nürnberg University
1998-2008 Research group leader for Technical Chemistry, Karl-Winnacker-Institute, DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2003-2004 Sabbatical year, Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés Catalytiques, Ècole Supérieure Chimie Physique Electronique (CPE) de Lyon, France
2008-2009 Director for Chemical Process Technology, Karl-Winnacker-Institute, DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt am Main
   
   
Current Position Full Professor (W3) and Director of the Institute for Micro Process Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
   

Functions

 2000-2008 Organizing committee and scientific committee of the annual meeting of the DECHEMA/ProcessNet section on Catalysis, now German Catalysis Society (GeCatS)
2008-2009 Organizing committee and scientific committee of the annual meeting of the DECHEMA/ProcessNet section on Reaction Engineering
2003
2006
2009		 Organizing committee and scientific committee of the ACHEMA congress
2002-2019 Scientific committee of the International Conference on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors (ICCMR, biennial)
2004 Chairman of the ICCMR-6, Lahnstein, Germany
2006-2022 Scientific committee of the International Conference on Inorganic Membranes (ICIM, biennial)
2003-2008 Elected research proposal evaluator, AiF – German Federation of Industrial Cooperative Research Associations Otto von Guericke e.V.
2010-2019 Appointed Member of the DECHEMA/ProcessNet expert committee on industrial reactions
2011-2016 Vice chairman of the DECHEMA/ProcessNet expert committee on micro process engineering
2017- Chairman of the DECHEMA/ProcessNet expert committee on micro process engineering
2010-2017 Vice chairman of the Helmholtz Research School Energy-Related Catalysis (KIT)
2011- Member of the Board of Directors at the Institute for Catalysis Research and Technology (KIT)
2011-2014 Spokesperson of the topic Energy-Efficient Processes of the Helmholtz Program Efficient Conversion and Use of Energy
2011-2015 Member of the KIT senate
2013-2015 Coordinator of the Helmholtz-CAS joint research group on integrated catalytic technologies for efficient hydrogen production (HCJRG-118)
2015-2020 Spokesperson of the topic Synthetic Hydrocarbons of the Helmholtz Program Storage and Cross-Linked Infrastructures
2014- Project Leader of the Helmholtz Large-Scale Infrastructure Project Energy Lab 2.0
2015- Scientific coordinator of the Research Unit Measurement and control of dynamic local process states in micro reactors by novel in situ sensors (FOR 2383) of the German Natural Science Foundation
2016- Scientific committee of the International Conference on Micro Reaction Engineering (IMRET). Chairman of the IMRET-15 (Oct. 21-24, 2018, Karlsruhe)
2016- Member of the steering committee of the Kopernikus project P2X: Research, Validation and Implementation of Power-to-X-Concepts
2018- Jury member of "The Smarter E AWARD", The smarter E Europe, Munich, Germany

2021-

 Member of the Advisory Board of the VDMA Working Group Power-to-X for Applications
     
     
Honors 1995 PhD-Award, Erlangen-Nürnberg University
2003-2006 Guest Professor, Regensburg University
2004 Chair in Technical Chemistry (C4), TU Berlin, declined
2006 Apl. Professor of Technical Chemistry, Erlangen-Nürnberg University
2009-2010 Visiting Professor, Université de Strasbourg
   
Research Focus Micro process engineering, catalytic reaction engineering, multifunctional reactors, catalytic membrane reactors, chemical energy storage, conversion of renewable power into gas, synthetic fuels and chemicals
   
Publications
  • 177 peer-reviewed scientific journal publications
  • 4 book chapters
  • 13 patents issued, 25 patent applications pending
  • Co-editor of Winnacker-Küchler – Chemische Technik – Prozesse und Produkte, 5th ed., Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2003-2006, 8 volumes, 9556 p.
  • Guest editor of Catalysis Today 104 (2005)
  • Guest editor of the Special Issue Reaction Eng and Catalysis: Microreactor Engineering of Curr. Open. Chem. Eng. (2022)
  • Guest editor of the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing of Chem. Ing. Tech. 94 (7) (2022) 
   
Memberships DECHEMA, VDI, DHV