Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Stefan Heinrich

Stefan Heinrich is a process engineer with diploma (1996) and PhD degrees (2000) from the University of Magdeburg, where he also did his Habilitation in 2006 and was Juniorprofessor from 2002-2008. Since 2008 Stefan is full professor and director of the Institute of Solids Process Engineering and Particle Technology of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany.

He is the chairman of the DECHEMA/VDI working party on agglomeration and bulk solids technologies and chairman of the EFCE working party on agglomeration and member of the EFCE working party on mechanics of particulate solids. Stefan was also the coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme 1679 „Dynamic simulation of interconnected solids processes and is the vice-spokesman of the DFG Research Training Group 2462 „Processes in natural and technical particle-fluid-systems” and member of the DFG Collaborative Research Centers 1615 “SMART Reactors” and 986 „Tailor-made multiscale materials systems“ and member of the „Center of Advanced Materials (ZHM)“, Hamburg. Stefan is also member of the judging panel for the IChemE Geldart Medal and works as executive editor of the journal „Advanced Powder Technology“ and as thematic editor of the journal „Particuology“. He is member of the selection committees of the German Academic Exchange Office (DAAD) and of the renowned Dutch NWO Spinoza Price and NWO Stevin Prize. In 2019 Stefan was also the chairman of the Partec2019 in Nürnberg.

Stefans main research interests are fluidized bed technology, particle formulation with granulation, coating and agglomeration, drying of solids, development of composite materials, particle based simulation methods (DEM, population balance modelling) and coupling with continuum approaches (CFD), contact, deformation and breakage mechanics of particles as well as flowsheet simulation of solids processes.

For his research activities in fluidized bed spray granulation Stefan received the DECHEMA-Prize 2015 and numerous other research awards.

Stefan is editor of a Springer book on dynamic flowsheet simulation of solids processes and has published over 260 peer-reviewed papers and 16 book contributions. He is inventor of 6 patents and supervised more than 30 PhD students.