Chemical engineering
Manfred was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1948. He obtained his PhD in Chemical engineering at the "Institute for Polymer Processing" of Stuttgart University. He worked as a post-doc in Polymer Physics under Joachim Meissner at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, and in the Plastic industry, then he returned to Stuttgart University in 1988 as Professor for Fluid Dynamics and Rheology. In 1998-1999, he was "Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Cybernetics" of Stuttgart University. In 1999, he moved to "Technical University of Berlin".