Director Process & Chemical Engineering

Lutz Mädler is Director of the Process & Chemical Engineering Division of the Foundation Institute of Materials Science (IWT) and full faculty leading the Particle and Process Technology division in the Department of Production Engineering at the University of Bremen. He is also head of the Reactive Spraying group in the Process & Chemical Engineering Division at the IWT.

Education

2008 Professor, Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany.

2003 Habilitation, Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

1999 Ph.D., Process Engineering, Univ. of Freiberg, Germany (summa cum laude).

1999 Dipl.-Ing., Process Engineering, Univ. of Freiberg, Germany

1996 MS, Appl. Physics, Univ. of Appl. Sci. Zwickau, Germany (magna cum laude).

1993 BS, Physics, Technical Univ. Zwickau, Germany (summa cum laude).

Professional Experience

2008 Director of Process & Chemical Engineering Division, Foundation Institute for Materials Science (IWT), Faculty of the Department of Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany.

2005-07 Lecturer and Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles.

2003-05 Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent, PD), ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

1999-03 Senior Scientist (Oberassistent) and project leader at the ETH Zürich, Particle Technology Laboratory (Group Prof. Dr. Pratsinis).

1996-99 Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Aerosol Research, Hannover, Germany, (Aerosol Technology Group Prof. Dr. Koch).

1995 Research Assistant at Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

1994 Research Associate

Research Interest

Spray processing for particulate materials and functional surfaces, particle science and engineering, particulate systems, reactive and non-reactive spray systems, aerosol manufacturing of materials, nanoparticle technology, air pollution, environmental health (“nanotox”).

Awards

2009         DECHEMA Award

2007         Associated member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA

2005         SMOLUCHOWSKI Award conferred by the Aerosol Society

2004         BASF Award in Process Eng. for a young scientist whose research brings the close relationship between natural and engineering sciences at a high level.

Publications