Karl Schügerl

Who is Karl Schügerl?

Karl Schügerl completed his chemical engineering studies at the University of Budapest in 1949. Afterwards he was a research engineer at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Budapest and later on in a Hungarian design studio for bioplants. In 1956 Prof. Schügerl came to Germany to work at Riedel de Haën at Seelze near to Hannover and finished in 1959 his PhD thesis at the University of Hannover under the supervision of Prof. Schiemann in the area of kinetics and rheology of fluid bed systems. He spent his post doctoral time at New York University and Princeton University in the USA working in the area of high-temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and fundamental investigations of molecular beam technology. After his post doctoral stay he returned to Germany to finish his habilitation thesis in 1964 at the University of Hannover. Shortly afterwards he accepted a professorship at the University of Braunschweig in the area of process engineering and returned to Hannover as head of the Institute of Technical Chemistry in 1969. His research activities were focussed more and more to the area of biological process engineering. He retired from his position as head of the Institute of Technical Chemistry in 1995.