Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern

Personal Facts

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

Positions held

since 2002
Director of Department of "Physical and Chemical Foundation of Process Engineering" at Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Dynamics of Complex technical Systems in Magdeburg
1998 - 2001
External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society at the MPI for Dynamics of Complex technical Systems (Fields of activity: Adsorption, heterogeneous catalysis, chromatography)
1995 - 2022
Professor of Chemical Process Engineering at University of Magdeburg
Subjects: Reaction engineering, adsorption/chromatography
1995
Schering AG, Berlin
1992 - 1994
Habilitation at Institute for Technical Chemistry at Technische Universität Berlin (Prof. P. Hugo)
1991 - 1992
Research associate in the group of Prof. G. Guiochon (University of Tennessee, Department of Chemistry, Knoxville, USA)
1987 - 1991
Scientific coworker in the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin
1982 - 1987
PhD at Institute of Physical Chemistry of Academy of Science of GDR in Berlin (Prof. D. Gelbin)
1977 - 1982
Study of Process Engineering at Technische Hochschule Leuna-Merseburg

Selected Scientific Awards & Grants

2021
“Affordable Green Chemistry Award” of the American Chemical Society (ACS), together with Profs. K. Gilmore (University of Connecticut, USA) and P. Seeberger (Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Science, Potsdam-Golm)

2016
„Emil Kirschbaum-Medaille“ (ProcessNet)

2015
Humanity in Science Award together with Prof. Peter H. Seeberger (Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Surfaces in Potsdam), granted by Phenomenex and The Analytical Scientist

2012
Honorary Doctorate „Doctor technices h.c.“ at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark

2008
Honorary Doctorate „Science in Technology” at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland

2002
Otto von Guericke Research Award of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

1999
Max Buchner Award of Dechema e.V.

1992 - 1994
Grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to support Habilitation

1991 - 1992
Grant of the Scientific Council of NATO to support a Post-Doc stay in the USA

Current memberships & offices held

since 2023
Member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America

since 2021
Member of the German Research Foundation Selection Committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award

since 2021
Member of the Scientific Council of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

since 2013
Member of the Editorial Board of "Adsorption" (Springer)

since 2012
Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering "Acatech"

since 2010

Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

since 2007
Member of Editorial Board of the "Chemical Engineering Journal" (Elsevier, Amsterdam)

since 2006
Member of the Working Party "Chemical Reaction Engineering" of the "European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)"

since 2005
Member of Board of Trustees of the Journals "Chemie Ingenieur Technik" and "Chemical Engineering & Technology" (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim)

since 1999
Member of Otto von Guericke Society, Magdeburg

since 1998
Member of Board of “Technical Reactions” (DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt/M.)

Former memberships & offices held

2019-2022
President of “International Adsorption Society”

2019-2020
Managing Director of the Institute of Process Engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

2015-2016
Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

2013-2019
Spokesperson of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Magdeburg

2011-2012
Head of the Institute of Process Engineering at Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

2008-2014
Member of “Commission for the Collaborative Research Centers” (German Science Foundation, DFG)

2008-2011
Coordinator of the EU project "IntEnant - Integrated Synthesis and Purification of Enantiomers" (funded by the European Commission within FP7)

2007-2008
Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

2005-2006
Dean of the Faculty for Process and Systems Engineering at Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

2003-2008
Elected member of Board of Reviewers of the German Science Foundation for the field "Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering"

2002-2008
Spokesperson of Research Group "Membrane Supported Reaction Engineering" funded by the German Science Foundation Research (FOR 448)

2001-2021
Member of International Editorial Board of "Journal of Chromatography A" (Elsevier, Amsterdam)

2001-2015
Member of Board of Trustees of Ernest Solvay Foundation, Hanover

1997-2014
Co-Founder and Partner of „HKSMB GbR“ (Software for preparative chromatography)