Prof. Dr. Markus Busch

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Work L2|04 D101
Peter-Grünberg-Straße 8
64287 Darmstadt

  • High-pressure alpha-olefin polymerisation
  • Modelling of industrial-scale polymerisation processes
  • Modelling of the polymeric microstructure
  • High-pressure catalytic polymerisation
  • Safety tests for high-pressure polymerisation processes
  • Thermodynamics of high-pressure polymer blends
  • High-temperature acrylate polymerizations
2004 Appointment as university professor by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art
2003 Award of the venia legendi of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Georg-August-University Göttingen for "Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry
2000 Computing in Technology
Task fields: Model design and model development for pilot and research projects; new developments and optimisation of simulation models; customer support for special modelling problems; developments on behalf of industrial customers
1996 Research period at the John Hopkins University Baltimore for Prof. Dr. M. A. McHugh
1994 Appointment as university assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen
1990-1994 Scholarship holder of the research training group “Kinetics and selectivity of chemical processes in compressed fluid phase” and research associate at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen within a BMBF project of the University of Göttingen and BASF AG
1993 Dissertation: “Continuous excimer laser-induced polymerization of ethene – development of a mini pilot plant”.
1989 Diploma chemist main examination
Diploma thesis: “Laser-induced high-pressure polymerization of pure ethene in a continuous reactor”.
1985-1989 Study of chemistry at the University of Göttingen
1985 A-levels at the Besselgymnasium in Minden / Westf.
EFCE
  • appointed member of the EFCE Working Party on Polymer Reaction Engineering (Chair)
  • EFCE Working Party High Pressure Technology
IUPAC
  • appointed member in the IUPAC Working Party on Modeling of Polymerization Kinetics and Processes
DECHEMA / ProcessNet
  • appointed member of the ProcessNet technical committee high pressure technology
  • appointed member of the ProcessNet Working Committee Polyreactions