Emeritus Professor Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern received an Honorary Doctorate from Sofia University

Prof. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Max Planck Institute in Magdeburg until 2024, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) in Sofia, Bulgaria, in recognition of his outstanding achievements.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) in Sofia, Bulgaria, by the rector, Professor Senya Terzieva-Zhelyazkova on 25 November 2025. Among the guests were representatives of the German Embassy and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

The UCTM thus honours his services to Bulgarian higher education and the strengthening of German-Bulgarian cooperation in education and science.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern has headed the Department of Physical-Chemical Fundamentals of Process Engineering at the Max Planck Institute Magdeburg from 1998 to 2024 and made a significant contribution to the establishment and success of the Max Planck Institute, which was newly founded in the state capital Magdeburg in 1998. His main research focus is on new reactor concepts, heterogeneous catalysis, adsorption and chromatography and crystallization processes, novel processes for the efficient separation of mixtures of very similar molecules and sustainable and affordable processes to provide drugs which are based on natural products.

Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern has already been honoured with Honorary Doctorate titles Doctor Honoris Causa by other renowned universities, namely by the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, in 2008, and by the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, in 2012.