Thermal safety of chemical processes : risk assessment and process design Weitere Angaben Verfasser: Francis Stoessel is head of Chemical Process Safety Consulting in the Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety & Security. Having obtained his degrees from the Université de Haute Alsace he spent most of his career working for Ciba Geigy in their Chemical Engineering department. He was head of the Thermal Safety Department at Ciba later of Process Safety Consulting at Novartis. He became professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne. He received awards from the Swiss Expert Commission for Safety in the Chemical Industry and the Swiss Society for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry