Dr. Martin Peter Elsner

Date & place of birth: August 29th, 1970 in Hindenburg (Zabrze)
Nationality: German
Address: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering
Sandtorstraße 1
D-39106 Magdeburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)391 6110-438
Fax: +49 (0)391 6110-626
E-mail: mpelsner@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de

Education


09/1981 - 01/1988 Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium (Grammar School), Bochum
02/1988 - 06/1991 Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gymnasium (Grammar School), Bochum Graduation: Abitur (A-level)
10/1991 - 11/1996Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), Chemistry Department, Diploma in Chemistry
05/1996 - 11/1996Diploma thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. H.-J. Freund, Physical Chemistry I, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany)
"Elektronenspektroskopische Studien an reinen und adsorbatbelegten V2O5(010)-Oberflächen" ("Electron spectroscopic studies of pure and adsorbate covered V2O5(010) surfaces")

Postgraduate Education


03/1997-12/2002 PhD Student at the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany), Chair for Reaction Engineering Research assistant in the Department of Chemical Engineering in the group of Prof. Dr. D.W. Agar "Bewertung adsorptiver Reaktionsführung am Beispiel des Claus-Prozesses"
("Assessment of adsorptively-enhanced reactor operation exemplified by the Claus process")
01/2004 PhD defence
01/2003 - 12/2003 Internship at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (Scholarship from the Max Planck Society)

Current Position


since 01/2004 Research Associate ("Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter") at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (in the group Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering of Prof. Dr. A. Seidel-Morgenstern). This study shall lead to a habilitation degree.

Grants


01/2004 Research grant from DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, "German Research Foundation") for an 18 months stay at the University of Pittsburgh (USA), Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (Prof. Dr. G. Veser) (for private reasons withdrawn)
04/2008 ERASMUS grant for a stay as guest lecturer at the Technical University of Rzeszów (Poland)
07/2009 Best paper of 2007 published in Computers & Chemical Engineering; GANI, R. (2009): Computers & Chemical Engineering: Best Paper of 2007 (Editorial). Comp. & Chem. Eng. 33(12), 1905-1906

Third-Party Funded Projects


since 2008 "Modellbildung für die "Bevorzugte Kristallisation" zur Gewinnung reiner Enantiomere" (DFG SE 586/15-1, DFG Paketantrag) Funded: DFG (German Research Foundation)
2008-2009 Project Based Personnel Exchange Programme with Poland (Technical University of Rzeszów), Funded: DAAD "Evaluation and comparison of diastereomeric and preferential crystallization for pharmaceutically active compounds"

Courses (for Graduate Students of Engineering, Biotechnology & Chemistry)


Taught & Developed:
  • Einführung in die Kristallisation (Introduction into Crystallisation)
  • Technische Kristallisation (Technical Crystallisation)
  • Crystallisation & Enantioseparation (compact courses on crystallisation with emphasize on enantioseparation taught as guest lecture at the University of Technology in Rzeszów, Poland, April 2008)
      (1) Innovative Resolution Concepts for Chiral Substances: Theory, Methods & Experimental Studies
      (2) Crystallisation: Fundamentals and Classical & Novel Applications
      (3) Why crystallisation as long-established thermal process is still interesting? Wise old sayings and new insights!
  • Anwendung numerischer Werkzeuge für technisch-chemische Problem­stellungen ("Application of numerical tools for technical and chemical problems")
    • together with Dr.-Ing. C. Hamel, Otto von Guericke University (Magdeburg), Chair for Chemical Process Engineering
  • Innovative Reaktorkonzepte ("Innovative Reactor Concepts")
    • together with Dr.-Ing. C. Hamel, Otto von Guericke University (Magdeburg), Chair for Chemical Process Engineering

Research Interests


  • Crystallisation
  • Separation of Enantiomers
  • Modelling
  • Process Design & Multifunctional Reactors
  • Adsorption & Heterogeneous Catalysis

Collaborations


  1. TU Berlin (Germany), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Control Systems (Fachgebiet Regelungssysteme), Dipl.-Ing. S. Hofmann, Prof. Dr. J. Raisch
  2. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany), Department of Mathematics, Institute for Analysis and Numerics, Prof. Dr. G. Warnecke
  3. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad (Pakistan), Department of Mathematics, Prof. Dr. S. Qamar
  4. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (USA), School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Dr. Y. Kawajiri
  5. Research Centre Jülich (Germany), Institute of Biotechnology 2, Prof. (em.) Dr. C. Wandrey, Dipl.-Ing. K. Würges and University of Basel (Switzerland), Dr. S. Lütz
  6. Rzeszów University of Technology (Poland), Chemical Faculty, Chemical Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. D. Antos
  7. IANUS Simulation GmbH Dortmund (Germany), Dr.-Ing. F. Platte
  8. ICN Polfa Rzeszów S.A. (Poland)

Students (Advisor in Bachelor & Master Thesis Projects)


  1. Udo Teßmer: Diploma Thesis (University of Dortmund, completed 1998)
    Title: Untersuchung der H2O-Adsorption im Rahmen adsorptiver Reaktionsführung beim Claus-Prozeß

  2. Michael Droll: Diploma Thesis (University of Dortmund, completed 1998)
    Title: Aufbau eines Differentialkreislaufreaktors und experimentelle Studien zur Bestimmung der Kinetik der Claus-Reaktion

  3. Georg Tisborn: Student research project (University of Dortmund, completed 1998)
    Title: Experimentelle Studien zur Charakterisierung der H2O-Adsorptionsfähigkeit spezieller Zeolithe

  4. Tim Weber: Diploma Thesis (University of Dortmund, completed 1999)
    Title: Experimentelle Studien zur Charakterisierung der H2O-Adsorptionsfähigkeit spezieller Zeolithe

  5. Şebnem Doğueri: Diploma Thesis (University of Dortmund, completed 1999)
    Title: Experimentelle Studien zur Aufklärung der chemisch-physikalischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Katalysator und den an der Claus-Reaktion partizipierenden Komponenten

  6. René Schöbel: Student research project (University of Dortmund, completed 2001)
    Title: Aufbau und Inbetriebnahme einer Pilotanlage für den adsorptiven Claus-Prozess

  7. Daniel Polenske: Diploma Thesis (Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal & MPI Magdeburg, completed 2003)
    Title: Untersuchungen zur Racemattrennung von Threonin mit Hilfe der "Preferential Crystallisation"

  8. Eva Alonso Muslera: Diploma Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg & University of Oviedo, Spain, completed 2003)
    Title: Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Trennung racemischer Gemische mittels "Preferen­tial Crystallisation" im quasi-kontinuierlichen Betrieb

  9. Dimas Fernández Menéndez: Research work (MPI Magdeburg, finished 2005)
    Title: Simulation of preferential crystallisation for the separation of enantiomers

  10. Lucía Iglesias Díaz: Master Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg & Uni­versity of Oviedo, Spain, completed 2005)
    Title: Experimentelle und modellbasierte Studien zur Untersuchung von Einflussfaktoren auf die Kinetik bei der "Bevorzugten Kristallisation" von Threonin

  11. Ana Martínez Sáenz de Jubera: Master Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg & University of Oviedo, Spain, completed 2006)
    Title: Dissolution Kinetics of Threonine in H2O: Experimental Investigation, Parameter Estimation and Statistical Data Analysis

  12. Mladen Bijelić: Bachelor Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg & University of Sofia, Bulgaria, completed 2006)
    Title: Statistische Analyse von Datensätzen zur bevorzugten Kristallisation sowie experi­mentelle Untersuchung des Einflusses von CH3OH und Pufferzusätzen auf die Löslichkeit und metastabile Breite von Methionin/H2O

  13. Anna Pietrasz: Master Thesis (MPI Magdeburg & University of Rzeszów, Poland, completed 2007)
    Title: Effect of initial enantiomeric excess on productivity of coupled preferential crystalli­zation

  14. Lucía Fernández López: Master Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg & University of Oviedo, Spain, completed 2007)
    Title: Theoretical and experimental study on polythermal operation for enantioselective crystallization

  15. Polina Peeva: Master Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg & University of Sofia, Bulgaria, completed 2007)
    Title: Bestimmung der optimalen Bedingungen für die Trennung racemischer Mischungen von ausgewählten Aminosäuren mittels Prozesskopplung der Flüssigchromatographie, Kristallisation und Racemisierung

  16. Noelia Melero Pereira: Master Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg & University of Oviedo, Spain, 2008)
    Title: Experimentelle Studien zur Untersuchung von Einflussfaktoren auf die Kristallisations­kinetik von Asparagin in H2O

  17. Ewelina Płoszaj: Master Thesis (MPI Magdeburg & University of Rzeszów, Poland, 2008)
    Title: Separation of pharmacologically active substances by means of crystallization

  18. Jenny Eilers: Student research project (MPI Magdeburg & Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 2008)
    Title: Seeding strategies for (preferential) crystallization

  19. Tobias Gey: Student research project (MPI Magdeburg & Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg together with DOMO Caproleuna GmbH, 2010)
    Title: Ermittlung der kinetischen Parameter eines kontinuierlichen Kristallisationsprozesses mit kontinuierlicher Impfung und Prozesssimulation mit ASPEN CrySim

  20. Imran Rasheed: Master Thesis (MPI Magdeburg & Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 2010)
    Title: Numerical investigation of seeding strategies in continuous crystallization

PhD Students (Advisor in PhD Thesis Projects)


  1. Grzegorz Ziomek: PhD Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, in preparation)
    Title: Evaluation of different operation modes for chromatography and crystallization (grzegorz.ziomek@evonik.com)

  2. Katerina Petruševska-Seebach: PhD Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, in pre­paration)
    Title: Productivity enhancement of amino acids by combination of chromatography and/or crystallization with racemisation (k_petrusevska@yahoo.com)

  3. Matthias Eicke: PhD Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, started in 2008)
    Title: Process strategies for batch preferential crystallization (eicke@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de)

  4. Kamila Gałan: PhD Thesis (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, started in 2010)
    Title: Experimental investigation of continuous preferential crystallization (galan@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de)

Languages


German:native speaker
English: fluent
Polish: good
Latin: Latinum
French:basic

Publications


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