Professor Burger works on the conceptual design of processes in chemistry and biotechnology. Applications of his work range from synthetic fuels based on C1-chemistry to the downstreaming of aqueous solutions in white biotech processes. Besides conducting experiments in both laboratory and pilot-plant scale, Professor Burger also develops computer-aided methods of process design such as short-cut apparatus models and Pareto optimization.
Professor Burger studied process engineering at the University of Stuttgart with a stay abroad in Kyoto, Japan. He completed his doctorate at the Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics, University of Kaiserslautern, in 2012. After a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering of the Imperial College London in 2013, Professor Burger returned to the University of Kaiserslautern, where he took up a position as assistant professor for “Process Design and Raw Material Change”. Since 2017 Professor Burger holds the Professorship of Chemical Process Engineering at TUM.
- Since 10/2017
Professorship (W3) “Chemische und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik“, Technical University of Munich, Campus Straubing
- Since 05/2016
Co-Founder and Managing Director OME Technologies GmbH
- 06/2016–09/2017
Junior-Professorship (W1) “Verfahrensentwurf und Rohstoffwandel”, University of Kaiserslautern, Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics
- 10/2012–05/2013
Post-doctoral research fellow, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Prof. C. Adjiman. Topic: “Computer-aided molecular and process design”
- 11/2012
PhD thesis “A novel process for the production of diesel fuel additives by hierarchical design“, TU Kaiserslautern, Tutor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Hasse
- 04/2009–09/2012
PhD student, University of Kaiserslautern, Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics
- 10/2003–02/2009
Process Engineering (Degree: Diploma), University of Stuttgart
- 08/2008–01/2009
Diploma thesis: “Modellierung, system-theoretische Analyse und Regelung des gekoppelten Verbrennungs- und Luftsystems im PKW-Dieselmotor“, Robert Bosch GmbH, Schwieberdingen
- 10/2006–04/2007
Internship, NEC Schott Components Corp. in Minakuchi, Japan: Quality management in production of electro-ceramic elements
Reviewer for >20 scientific journals.
Member ProcessNet-Working Parties: “Process Simulation, Process Synthesis and Knowledge Processing”, “Fluid Separations” & “Thermodynamics”
