Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern

Personal Facts

Date of birth: 9th of August 1956
Place of birth: Mittweida
Nationality: German

Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern received in 1982 a Diplom in Chemical Engineering from Technische Hochschule Leuna-Merseburg and in 1987 a Ph.D. from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin (East). After a Postdoc with Georges Guiochon at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, a Habilitation at the Technical University Berlin and a stay at the pharmaceutical company Schering in Berlin, he became Professor for Chemical Process Engineering at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg (in 1995) and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (in 2002). Currently, as an Emeritus at the MPI in Magdeburg, he continues research on reaction and separation processes.

His interests include heterogeneous catalysis, adsorption and preparative chromatography, crystallization and the development of new reactor concepts. He supervised more than 80 PhD project and worked with more than 30 Postdocs. Results of his work are published in more than 550 research papers.

Together with Peter Seeberger he received in 2015 the “Humanity in Science Award” (The Analytical Scientist, Phenomenex) and in 2021 the ACS Award for “Affordable Green Chemistry” (with Peter Seeberger and Kerry Gilmore). He holds Honorary Doctorates of the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark) and the Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland) and is member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering and the National Academy of Engineering of the United States.

He organized several major international scientific conferences, including SPICA (2002, Heidelberg), the International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE, 2006, Potsdam, together with Albert Renken), Fundamental of Adsorption (FOA, 2016, Friedrichshafen) and the International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (ISIC, 2021, Potsdam/online, together with Heike Lorenz). Between 2019 and 2022 he was President of the International Adsorption Society (IAS).