# Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern

Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern (born August 9, 1956 in Mittweida, East Germany) is a German Process Engineer. He is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and Chair of Chemical Engineering at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.

## Education & professional career

Seidel-Morgenstern graduated from Technische Hochschule Leuna-Merseburg and received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1987. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville he defended a Habilitation at Technische Universität Berlin in 1994. Subsequently he worked for Schering AG in Berlin, before becoming in 1995 Professor of Chemical Process Engineering at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. In 2002 he was appointed as a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, where he is head of the “Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering” group.

## Major research interests

Seidel-Morgenstern's research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, adsorption and preparative chromatography, crystallization and the development of new reactor concepts. The results of his work are published in more than 400 research papers. Specifically, the following topics are being investigated in his department:
* New Reactor Concepts
* Chromatographic Reactors
* Membrane Reactors
* Heterogeneous catalysis
* Adsorption and Preparative chromatography
* Crystallization
* Separation of Enantiomers

## Awards & honors (selection)

| Jahr | Position |
| since 2023 | International Member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America |
| 2021 | “Affordable Green Chemistry Award” of the American Chemical Society (ACS), together with Profs. K. Gilmore (University of Connecticut, USA) and P. Seeberger (Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Potsdam-Golm) |
| 2016 | “Emil Kirschbaum-Medaille” (ProcessNet) |
| 2019 - 2022 | President of the International Adsorption Society (IAS) |
| 2016 - 2019 | Vice-President of the International Adsorption Society (IAS) |
| 2015 | Humanity in Science Award, granted by Phenomenex and The Analytical Scientist |
| 2013 | Member of Editorial Board of "Adsorption" (Springer US) |
| 2012 | Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering "Acatech" |
| 2012 | Honorary Doctorate „Doctor technices h.c.“ at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU, Odense, Denmark) |
| 2010 | Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2008 - 2014 | Member of "Commission for the Collaborative Research Centers" (German Science Foundation, DFG) |
| 2008 | Honorary Doctorate „Science in Technology” at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT, Lappeenranta, Finland) |
| 2007 | Member of Editorial Board of the "Chemical Engineering Journal" (Elsevier, Amsterdam) |
| 2006 | Member of Working Party "Chemical Reaction Engineering" (European Federation of Chemical Engineering, EFCE) |
| 2005 | Member of Board of Trustees of the Journals "Chemical Engineering & Technology" and "Chemie Ingenieurtechnik" (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim) |
| 2003 - 2008 | Elected member of Board of Reviewers of the German Science Foundation for the fields of "Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering" |
| 2002 | Director at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Department of “Physical and Chemical Foundation of Process Engineering”, Magdeburg |
| 2002 | Otto von Guericke Research Award of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg |
| 2001 - 2021 | Member of International Editorial Board of "Journal of Chromatography A" (Elsevier, Amsterdam) |
| 2001 - 2015 | Member of Board of Trustees of Ernest Solvay Foundation, Hanover |
| 1999 | Max Buchner Award of Dechema e.V. |
| 1999 | Member of Otto von Guericke Society, Magdeburg |
| 1998 | Member of Board of “Technical Reactions” (DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt/M.) |
| 1998 - 2001 | External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg |
| 1992 - 1994 | Grant of German Science Foundation (DFG) to support Habilitation |
| 1991 - 1992 | Grant of the Scientific Council of NATO to support a Post-Doc stay in the USA |

## Publications (selection)

Journal and Book Contributions, Patents