Dr.-Ing. Thomas Waluga

(Senior Engineer)

Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4 (C)

21073 Hamburg

Building: C - Room 2.006

eMail: Dr.-Ing. Waluga

Phone: ++49 (0)40 42878-3141

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

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2011