Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Osterland

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+49 821 5586-2062

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Member of the faculty council Mechanical and Process Engineering

Coordination of school cooperations Mechanical and Process Engineering

Associate Head of the Examination Board Mechanical and Process Engineering

Director of Studies Environmental and Process Engineering (BEng)

Lehre und Forschung

Characterization and development of sPEEK-based catalysts for etherification and esterification (supervision of Alina Greve's PhD project together with Prof. Hinrichsen from Technical University of Munich in cooperation with ASG Analytik-Service)
Process engineering centered optimization of dimethyl ether synthesis by reactive distillation, IR at-line analysis and dynamic process intensification (supervision of Innokentij Bogatykh's PhD project together with Prof. Repke from TU Berlin in cooperation with ASG Analytik-Service)
Development of miniaturized low-cost sensors for high-resolution measurements of the electrical conductivity of aqueous solutions in continuously flowing reactors
Water analysis and chemical-physical water treatment (various small projects in cooperation with WashTec, BAUER Resources and Desklab)

Characterization, purification and stabilization of OME-based synthetic fuels, see report (MAPR project in cooperation with ASG Analytik-Service, authors: Innokentij Bogatykh & Tobias Goral)
Increase of the technical impermeability of 3D-printed molded parts through mechanical and chemical-physical treatment processes (MAPR project in cooperation with Hänssler, author: Christian Jäck)

GDCh Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
- Coordination of the publication activities of the ThinkTank "Energiewende"
- Participation in the commission for the preparation of GDCh statements
DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V.

Since 07/2015 University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
University professor and researcher in the field of chemical process engineering and environmental technology
01/2015 - 06/2015 Acquisition of the EXIST-funded research transfer project “Power2Home”
10/2011 - 12/2014 Leuphana University Lüneburg, Faculty of Sustainability
Group leader and project coordinator “Thermische Batterie” including projects for the development of thermochemical heat storage systems
09/2008 - 08/2011 Fraunhofer IFAM (Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research) Dresden
Research assistant and deputy group leader in the field of hydrogen storage
01/2008 - 06/2008 GMK Gesellschaft für Motoren und Kraftanlagen mbH Bargeshagen
Project engineer and laboratory manager in the field of fuel synthesis
10/2004 - 12/2007 Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock
Doctorate with Prof. Detlef Heller: “Enantioselective hydrogenation of prochiral olefins”
10/1999 - 08/2004 University of Rostock
Study of chemistry with focus on catalysis

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Osterland received the Certificate University Teaching Bavaria during the program ProfiLehre at the Centre for University Didactic DiZ in June 2021.

Topics for theses see Current Topics Osterland as well as moodle / Faculty of Mechanical and Process Engineering | FMV - bulletin board (login with RZ ID).
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