Professor Andrzej Górak (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 80; international cooperation: 56%; h-index: 33) obtained his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Process Engineering of Lodz Technical University (Poland) and completed his habilitation at the Warsaw Technical University and RWTH Aachen, Germany. He was researcher at Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf, then professor at Technical University in Essen and Dortmund, Germany.
His scientific activities focus on computer-aided simulation and experimental validation of integrated reaction and separation processes like reactive distillation and reactive absorption as well as on the analysis of hybrid separation processes and the purification of biotechnological products. Professor Górak is a co-editor of the journal "Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification“. He has initiated and coordinated several projects in European Framework Programmes FP5, FP6 and FP. He is a co-author of nearly 300 scientific papers, 15 patents and 7 book chapters. He has been awarded the Cross of Merit of Germany and Poland. He has supervised 30 PhD dissertations.
He is a member of European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Working Party on Fluid Separations and Process Intensification. He has been the vice rector for science of Dortmund University of Technology and a member of the Council of the National Science Centre (NCN). He has served as a reviewer for prestigious scientific journals (AIChE Journal, Chem.Ing.Tech., Chem.Eng.Proc, Chem.Eng.Res, Inż.Chem.Proc., Chem.Eng.Sci., Comp.Chem.Eng.) and scientific organisations (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Ministry of Science and Technology, Dutch Science Fund, National Science Foundation (USA), ESFC (UK), Deutsche Bundestiftung Umwelt, European Union, NATO, Israel Science Foundation).
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