Dr.-Ing. Thomas Waluga

(Senior Engineer)

Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4 (C)

21073 Hamburg

Building: C - Room 2.006

eMail: Dr.-Ing. Waluga

Phone: +49 40 30601-3141

Personal information

since 2020

Chief Engineer at the Institute for Process Systems Engineering (formerly Process and Plant Engineering)

2013 - 2014

Postdoc and head of research group "Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Processes" at the Institute of Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering (TU Braunschweig)

2007 - 2013

Research assistent at the Institute of Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering (TU Braunschweig)

2001 - 2007

Study of Biotechnology (Diploma) at TU Braunschweig and Lund University

Research

Reactive and hybrid processes

  • Coupling of reaction and substance separation in biotechnological processes (reactive adsorption, extraction, chromatography)
  • Mathematical modelling and simulation of reactive/hybrid biotechnological processes
  • Mathematical optimization of reactive/hybrid biotechnological processes

Innovative Methods

  • Combination of molecular dynamic and experimental methods for the prediction of adsorption isotherms
  • Magnetic immobilization of functionalized nanoparticles in continuous processes
  • Prediction of kinetic parameters of an enzymatic multisubstrate reaction using energy distribution

Publications

2026

  • Bioreactive separation technology: a retrospective and perspective
    Waluga, Thomas; Ohde, Daniel; Ansorge-Schumacher, Marion; Benfer, Regina; Bluemke, Wilfried; Briesen, Heiko; Burger, Jakob; Drews, Anja; Gescher, Johannes; Glasmacher-Remberg, Christiane; Grünewald, Marcus; Hansen, Niels; Held, Christoph; Holtmann, Dirk; Kara, Selin; Langermann, Jan von; Liese, Andreas; Magnus, Jørgen; Pelzer, Alexander; Pleiss, Jürgen; Radespiel, Tina; Repke, Jens Uwe; Rosenthal, Katrin; Schallmey, Anett; Smirnova, Irina; Woodley, John M.; Wucherpfennig, Thomas; Zavrel, Michael; Zeiner, Tim; Skiborowski, Mirko
    Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification 224: 110787 (2026)
    Open Access | Publisher DOI

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