2016

Nordic Process Control Award

2014-2023

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH,
Vice President of the Helmholtz Association, Coordinator of Research Field
Key Technologies

since 2014

Member of Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences

2011-2014

Chairman of the German Council of Science and Humanities

2007-2011

Member of the Steering Committee of the Cluster of Excellence Tailor-made Fuels from Biomass (TMFB)

2007-2009

Spokesperson of Aachen Chemical Engineering (AVT)

2007

Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC Fellow)

2006-2011

Director, Center for Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University

2004

Visiting professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

2002

Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

2001

Leibniz Prize of the German Research Association

1999

Olaf Hougen Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

1999-2009

Director of the Collaborative Research Center 540, Model-based experimental analysis of kinetic phenomena in reactive fluid multi-phase systems, at RWTH Aachen

since 1998

Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

1997-2006

Co-Director of the Collaborative Research Center CRC 476, Information technology support of chemical engineering design processes, at RWTH Aachen

1996

Offer of Max-Planck-Institut for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg (Scientific Member and Director, Process Systems Engineering Department), declined

1996

Offer of ETH Zürich (Professor for Process Systems Engineering), declined

1993-2022

Professor (C4) of Process Systems Engineering (now AVT.SVT) at RWTH Aachen University, on leave since July 2014

1992

Habilitation, process dynamics and process control, University of Stuttgart

1990

Arnold-Eucken-Preis of VDI-Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemie-Ingenieurwesen (GVC)

1989-1990

Guest scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

1988-1992

Research assistant (C1), Institute for System Dynamics and Control Technology, University of Stuttgart

1988

Preis der Freunde der Universität Stuttgart (for dissertation)

1988

Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at the University of Stuttgart

1982-1988

Doctoral researcher, Institute for System Dynamics and Control, University of Stuttgart

1982

Dipl.-Ing. degree (Chemical Engineering), University of Stuttgart

1979

Book award of VDI-Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemie-Ingenieurwesen (GVC) for exceptional Vordiplom in Chemical Engineering