Wolfgang Marquardt

Wolfgang Marquardt (Germany) held the positions of Scientific Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich as well as of a Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association from 2014 to 2023. After graduating in chemical engineering in 1982, he got his PhD in 1988 and his Habilitation in 1992 from Stuttgart University in Germany. He was Professor of Process Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1992 to 2022, Olaf Hougen Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1999, Visiting Professor at Delft University of Technology in 2004 and is Honorary Professor of Dalian University (CN) since 2012. He was acting as the Chaiman of the Council of Science and Humanities (WR, 2011-2014).

His research focused on model development, large-scale simulation and optimization for model-based design, control and operations of chemical processes. He was (co-)initiating major collaborative research efforts, including two DFG Research Centers as well as a Graduate School and a Cluster of Excellence funded by the German Excellence Initiative. He served as a member of various national and international advisory, evaluation and governing committees, including Senate of DFG, Wissenschaftsrat, Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII), Scientific Advisory Board of DSM (NL) and Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory (USA). He was consulting with many international chemical and software companies and founded the technology transfer platform AixCAPE e.V. to co-develop methods and tools for industrial application. His research work is documented in about 500 peer-reviewed publications, a monograph and two edited books. 

He is a member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Acatech, Leopoldina, US National Academy of Engineering and UK Royal Academy of Engineering. He received a number of prestigous awards, including the Arnold Eucken-Preis of VDI-GVC, Leibniz-Preis of DFG, Nordic Process Control Award andLong-Term Achievement Award of CAPE Working Party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). He is a Fellow of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control.