Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg (born 14 September 1953) is a German chemist and professor at the

University of Paderborn Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

. Hungenberg has contributed to the field of

reaction kinetics Chemical kinetics, also known as reaction kinetics, is the branch of physical chemistry that is concerned with understanding the rates of chemical reactions. It is to be contrasted with chemical thermodynamics, which deals with the direction in wh ...

for polymerization processes, and has been honored with Professorship for his contributions in the field of reaction chemistry at the Institute for Polymer Material and Process (PMP),

Education

Hungenberg studied

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

at the University of Duisburg-Essen and then received his Diploma in

Anionic polymerization In polymer chemistry, anionic addition polymerization is a form of chain-growth polymerization or addition polymerization that involves the polymerization of monomers initiated with anions. The type of reaction has many manifestations, but tradi ...

in 1979. Later, he received his PhD in 1982 in the group of Friedhelm Bandermann at the University of Duisburg-Essen with research projects focusing on anionic living free radical polymerization.

Biography

From 1983 to 1987 Hungenberg worked in process development for blood diagnostic devices with Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, now Roche Diagnostics. In 1987, he joined BASF’s Polymer research group. Since then, he has led diverse product and process development projects ranging from new PVC modifiers, polyolefin processes, catalysis, super absorbent polymers, emulsion polymers ABS, polyamides, etc. His main research emphasis is polymer reaction engineering modeling, simulation and optimization of polymer processes. He is an (co-)author of about 100 scientific articles, editorials and patents. He is also an (co-)author of a book chapter in process modelling and optimization of styrene polymerization with focus on polystyrene and its co-polymers. K. D. Hungenberg has been at different leadership positions in BASF SE for many years. In 2004, he was named Research Director of Polymer Reaction Engineering at BASF SE. In 2010, he was appointed as Vice President Polymer Reaction Engineering in recognition for his achievements. In 2012 Hungenberg received an Honorary Professorship at the institute of Polymer, Materials and Processes (PMP),

. There he regularly gives lectures about Polymer Reaction Engineering and the Modeling of Polymer Processes. He is highly networked in the area of Polymer Reaction Engineering and is known globally for his contributions in this field. Furthermore, he is an Editorial Board member of several international journals and acted as chairman and member for Scientific Committees of various conferences. He is engaged in the IUPAC Working Party "Modeling of Kinetics and Processes of Polymerization", the Working Party “Polymer Reaction Engineering” of

EFCE The European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE), also known as Fédération Européenne du Génie Chimique and Europäische Föderation für Chemie-Ingenieur-Wesen, is an association of professional societies in Europe concerned with chemic ...

and acts as Deputy Chairman of the

DECHEMA DECHEMA is an abbreviation for "Deutsche Gesellschaft für chemisches Apparatewesen" (German Society for Chemical Apparatus), though it has since been expanded to "''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie''" (German Society ...

Technical Committee "Polyreaktionen". In addition, he is lecturer in Dechema and responsible for the training course "Polymerisationstechnik".

References

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