Kerstin Thurow (born October 3, 1969, in Rostock) is a German engineer specializing in automation technology. She has been Professor of Automation/Life Science Automation at the Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock (german: link=no, Universität Rostock) is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continen ...

since 1999.

Life

Thurow gained her

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

in 1988, matriculating to the

to study chemistry. In 1992, she entered the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

for her doctoral degree in chemistry and pharmacy, completing her initial doctorate in 1994 ( Promotion). She returned to the University of Rostock, where she was employed as a research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering until 1997 and as managing director of the Institute for Measuring and Sensor Systems from 1997 to 1999. In 1999, Thurow completed her

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in engineering sciences, aged 29, and was appointed to Germany's first chair for laboratory automation, still at the University of Rostock. Since 2000, she has been director of the Institute for Automation Technology at the University of Rostock. She was promoted to full professor in 2004.

Prizes and awards

* Member acatech, 2005 * Entrepreneur of the Year, Entrepreneur Prize of the Hanseatic City of Rostock, 2005 * Joachim Jungius Award of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences Hamburg, 2004''Joachim Jungius Award 2004 an Frau Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kerstin Thurow verliehen'' Seite der Joachim Jungius-Gesellschaft
retrieved 29 December 2017. * Founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, 2004

References

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