School of Mechanical Engineering and Safety Engineering

Department Process and Plant Safety

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Head of Department


Consultation hours by appointment (also telephone), please send an email to make an appointment.

Short CV

1995 Diploma, Energy and Process Engineering, TU Berlin
1995 -2001 Research assistant at the Department of Process Dynamics and Operation, TU Berlin
2001 Dissertation
2001 -2009 Senior Scientist at the Department of Plant and Safety Engineering, TU Berlin
2008 Habilitation
2009 -2020 Professor at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences for Energy and Process Engineering
since 2020 Professor at University of Wuppertal and Head of Department of Process and Plant Safe
since 2014 nominated member of the Commission on Process Safety (KAS) at the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Research interests

  • Energy and Process Engineering
    • Optimization of complex plants
    • Energy efficiency of process plants
    • Waste heat utilisation
    • Integration of renewable energies
  • Process and Plant Safety
    • Holistic safety assessment of complex process plants
    • Alarm management systems
    • Optimisation of process control systems
    • Operator support systems
    • Modelling of processes, incident scenarios and their consequences
    • Safety-Security interface

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