University of Innsbruck trains chemical engineers
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The University of Innsbruck is now training chemical engineers. With the establishment of the Institute for Chemical Engineering and the master’s course of the same name, a new research and training focus was created. The initiative is supported by the state of Tyrol with an endowed professorship.
The endowed professorship is held by Kai Langenbach, who was born in Siegen, Germany in 1984. Langenbach is a process engineer with a focus on complex material systems. “For example, the reacting substances or the build-up of phases, such as in foams or emulsions, can be complex,” explains the newly appointed professor.
Advance praise from the university director
With Kai Langenbach we could win an internationally recognized expert for our new research area, said Rector Tilmann Märk at the inaugural lecture of Kai Langenbach on Monday evening at the Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine (CCB) in Innsbruck. A second endowed professorship is held by the Adler-Werk at the institute; it is held by the deputy institute director Oliver Strube in Oliver Strube.
Desired by many Tyrolean companies
The dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Hubert Huppertz, particularly emphasized the thematic expansion of the faculty’s teaching and research offerings in the direction of chemical engineering education and research.
Rainer Seyrling, head of the business location, digitization and science department at the State of Tyrol, said that with the introduction of the chemical engineering specialization, students would be trained in a highly interdisciplinary field, “of which the research as well as the business location Tyrol used accordingly”.