Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lutz Mädler

Education

2008    Professor, Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany.

2003    Habilitation, Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

1999     Ph.D., Process Engineering, Univ. of Freiberg, Germany.

1999     Dipl.-Ing., Process Engineering, Univ. of Freiberg, Germany

1996     MS, Appl. Physics, Univ. of Appl. Sci. Zwickau, Germany.

1993     BS, Physics, Technical Univ. Zwickau, Germany.

Professional Experience

2022       Member of the Board of Trustees Möller-Foundation for Science and Research, Hamburg

2021       Spokesperson Priority Programme (DFG) 2289 “HeteroAgregates”

2018       Director of the Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering IWT, Bremen, Germany

2016-21 Spokesperson of CRC 1232 "Farbige Zustände" - High Throughput for Evolutionary Structural Materials

2008-17 Director of Process & Chemical Engineering Division, Foundation Institute for Materials Science (IWT),
                Faculty of the Department of Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany.

2005-07 Lecturer and Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles.

2003-05 Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent, PD), ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

1999-03 Senior Scientist (Oberassistent) and project leader at the ETH Zürich, Particle Technology Laboratory (Group Prof.  Dr. Pratsinis).

1996-99 Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Aerosol Research, Hannover, Germany, (Aerosol Technology Group Prof.  Dr. Koch).

1995      Research Assistant at Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

1994      Research Associate

Research Interest

Spray processing for particulate materials and functional surfaces, particle science and engineering, particulate systems, reactive and non-reactive spray systems, aerosol manufacturing of materials, nanoparticle technology, air pollution, environmental health (“nanotox”).

Awards

2018    ERC Advanced grant

2017    Member of the Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech

2017    Reimar Lüst Award of the Max Planck Society (MPI)

2017    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG, German Research Foundation

2009    DECHEMA Award

2005    SMOLUCHOWSKI Award conferred by the Aerosol Society

2004    BASF Award in Process Eng. for a young scientist whose research brings the close relationship between natural and engineering sciences at a high level