Andreas Pfennig
| since 2014 | Full professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Liège |
| 2011-2014 | Full professor at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology of the Graz University of Technology |
| 1995-2011 | Full professor, head of Aachener Verfahrenstechnik - Thermal Process Engineering (now AVT.FVT) at the RWTH Aachen University |
| 1995 | Habilitation in the Faculty of Chemistry of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Title of the thesis: Separation and purification of biomolecules with the help of aqueous two-phase systems. |
| 1991 | Supported by the Dr. Otto Röhm Memorial Foundation |
| 1988-1995 | Research assistant at the Institute for Chemical Technology of the Technical University of Darmstadt in the group of Professor Dr.-Ing. J. Gaube |
| 1988 | Friedrich-Wilhelm prize of the RWTH Aachen University |
| 1988 | Borchers prize of the RWTH Aachen University |
| 1988 | Research assistant at the Institute for Thermo and Fluid Dynamics of the Ruhr-University Bochum in the group of Professor Dr. F. Kohler |
| 1987 | Ph.D. at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University. Title of the dissertation: On the development of a three-parameter equation of state based on the accurate description of the hard-sphere system. |
| 1985-1987 | Research assistant at the Chair II for Chemical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University in the group of Professor Dr.-Ing. H. Hartmann |
| 1984-1985 | Project work with Professor Dr. J.M. Prausnitz at the University of California, Berkeley, California |
| 1981 | Scholarship by the German National Merit Foundation |
| 1979-1984 | Studied mechanical engineering, specialization in chemical engineering at the RWTH Aachen University |
Research Activities
- Experiments and design models for liquid-liquid extraction based on single-drop experiments
- Modelling of phase separators for separation of dispersions as well as coalescers for secondary dispersions
- Experimental and theoretical investigations on distillation
- Mass transfer in homogeneous systems and across interfaces
- Thermodynamics of strongly non-ideal mixtures
- Exergetic evaluation of processes, systematic process design, global balances