| Address | TU Dortmund University Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Process Dynamics and Operations Emil-Figge-Str. 70 44227 Dortmund Germany |
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Current Position
| Since 1990 | Full Professor of Process Dynamics and Operations, Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |
Academic Degrees
| Habilitation for Automatic Control, Universität Duisburg, 1987 Habilitationsschrift: Limits of the Performance of Linear Time-invariant Control Loops (published by Springer, 1988) |
| Dr.-Ing. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universität Duisburg, 1981 (Mit Auszeichnung / summa cum laude / with distinction) Thesis: Processing of measurements with respect to optimal transmission of information |
| Dipl.-Ing., Electrical Engineering, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1978 Diploma thesis on the design of linear multivariable controllers |
Education
| Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Professional Education, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1973 - 1978 |
Employment and Positions
| since 2011 | Department Chair, Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, TU Dortmund |
| 2-3/2008 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA |
| 2002 - 2006 | Vice-President (Prorektor) for Research, Support of Young Scientists and International Relations of Universität Dortmund |
1996 – 1999 |
Department Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, TU Dortmund |
| since 1.8.1990 | Full Professor (C4/W3) for Process Dynamics and Operations at TU Dortmund |
| 1986 – 1990 | Group Manager, Fraunhofer-Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (IITB) Karlsruhe, responsible for the groups “Automation in the Process Industries” and “Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems” |
| 1984 – 1985 | PostDoc with Prof. George Zames, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, McGill-University, Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| 1982 – 1986 | Scholarships (Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, DFG Habilitandenstipendium) Research on controller design in the frequency domain, decentralized control, control and information, limits of controller performance |
| 1979 – 1982 | Research Assistant, Universität Duisburg, Prof. Dr. H. Schwarz Research theme: Optimal filtering and control from an information-theoretical perspective |
| 1978 – 1979 | Research Assistant, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Prof. Dr. H. Unbehauen,2 months at the Control Systems Centre, UMIST, Manchester, GB Research theme: Design of linear multivariable controllers |
Honors and Functions
| 2010 | PSE Innovation Award for the paper: "WENO scheme with static grid adaptation for tracking steep moving fronts." Chemical Engineering Science 64 (2009) 3214-3226 by Ala Eldin Bouaswaig and Sebastian Engell |
| 2009 | Best Paper Award IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation for the paper "A Hybrid Multiple Populations Evolutionary Algorithm for Two-stage Stochastic Mixed-integer Disjunctive Programs" by Thomas Tometzki and Sebastian Engell |
| 2008 | Best Survey Paper Award 2005-2007 Journal of Process Control, for the paper "Feedback Control for Optimal Process Operation" |
| 2008 | Best Paper Award, Journal Automatisierungstechnik, for the paper "Produktionssteuerung auf der Grundlage von Echtzeitautomaten (Production Scheduling on the Basis of Times Automata" by Sebastian Panek, Olaf Stursberg, Sebastian Engell |
| 2006 | Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control |
| 1991 | Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Prize for Applied Research |
| 1982 | Scholarship for the support of outstanding young scientists by the Fritz-Thyssen-stiftung, Essen |
| 2005 - 2010 | Member of the selection committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize of DFG |
| 2009 | Program Chair, IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes |
| since 2008 | Member of the Fellow Selection Committee of IFAC |