Annual Caress Lecture: Dr. Markus Kraft, Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Thursday, October 16, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Prof Markus Kraft is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge, Caress Lecture Award Recipient
The GW Department of Chemistry is pleased to present our annual Caress Lecture featuring Dr. Markus Kraft
About the Speaker
Prof Markus Kraft is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He is the director of CARES ltd., the Singapore-Cambridge CREATE Research Centre. He is also a principal investigator of “Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology (C4T)”. He obtained the academic degree 'Diplom Technomathematiker' at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1992 and completed his Doctor rerum naturalium in Technical Chemistry at the same University in 1997. Subsequently, he worked at the University of Karlsruhe and the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin. In 1999 he became a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge. He has a strong interest in the area of computational modelling and optimisation targeted towards developing carbon abatement and emissions reduction technologies for the automotive, power and chemical industries. He has contributed significantly towards the detailed modelling of combustion synthesis of organic and inorganic nanoparticles and worked on engine simulation, spray drying and the granulation of fine powders. More recently, he has been working on cyber physical systems employing time varying knowledge graphs with the aim to build large cross domain applications that help to reduce energy consumption and harmful emissions. In 2021, he was elected Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
Location: SEH B1220. Please note that this is an in-person and online special presentation. Reception will follow.
The Caress Lecture Series
The Caress lecture series was established by Drs. Edward and Virginia Caress and is designed to feature leaders in their fields who have made substantive contributions to any area of chemistry as determined by a committee of the faculty.
Please join us either virtually or in-person. If you are outside of GW and would like to join, just drop us an email at gwchem
gwu [dot] edu (gwchem[at]gwu[dot]edu) and let us know that you are coming.
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