OpenFieldThe Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (IEC) at TU Bergakademie Freiberg is Germany’s premier academic center for high-temperature carbon conversion, synthetic fuels, chemical hydrogen carriers, and circular carbon technologies.
Operating large-scale pilot gasification, pyrolysis, and catalytic synthesis testing plants, IEC pioneers industrial decarbonization pathways for chemical manufacturing, metallurgy, and heavy energy sectors. Research clusters encompass circular carbon economies (chemical recycling of plastics), synthesis gas processing, underground hydrogen storage, and Fischer-Tropsch e-fuel production.
Open to master’s and doctoral researchers in chemical engineering, process engineering, metallurgy, and applied chemistry. Applicants submit recognized university credentials, academic transcripts, and a detailed research proposal.
Fully salaried doctoral appointment (TV-L E13) investigating high-temperature entrained-flow gasification of circular carbon feedstocks and catalytic reforming kinetics.
Advanced two-year master’s curriculum covering thermal process engineering, carbon capture and utilization (CCU), hydrogen technologies, and circular economy thermodynamics.
Postgraduate laboratory research fellowship focusing on heterogeneous catalyst development for power-to-liquid synthesis, methanol synthesis, and ammonia cracking reactors.
Graduate assistantship analyzing feedstock recycling of mixed plastic waste and contaminated municipal fractions into high-purity chemical base chemicals.
Hands-on operational engineering assistantship maintaining pilot gasifiers, slurry feed systems, gas-cleaning scrubbing units, and high-temperature optical diagnostics.
Computational research grant developing multi-phase CFD simulations of turbulent reacting flows and particle-gas interactions inside industrial slagging gasifiers.
Director of IEC & Chair of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering · Institute of Energy Process Engineering
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Meyer is an internationally celebrated authority on carbonaceous feedstock gasification, leading pilot-scale research on chemical recycling and synthetic e-fuel synthesis.
View research profile ↗Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics of Reacting Flows · Division of Numerical Flow Simulation
Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter models complex reactive flows and phase transitions in high-pressure reactors, advancing multi-scale simulation frameworks for zero-emission metallurgy.
View research profile ↗Senior Scientist in Catalytic Synthesis & Gasification Systems · Department of Chemical Synthesis and Analytics
Dr.-Ing. Rohland Rohland oversees chemical analytics and catalytic synthesis at IEC, designing advanced catalyst formulations for converting captured CO2 and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuels.
View research profile ↗University profile compiled from official Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering academic bulletins and institutional directories reviewed on 2026-10-16. OpenField is an independent research guide.