Jürgen Gmehling

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gmehling, born 1946, is Professor of Technical Chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. His research interests focus on the computerized design and optimization of chemical processes, investigating separation processes and thermophysical properties. The various predictive thermodynamic models such as the group contribution methods UNIFAC, modified UNIFAC and LIFAC or the group contribution equation of state PSRK and VTPR developed in his research group with the help of the Dortmund Data Bank are used worldwide by a large number of chemical engineers during their daily work with process simulators. He is author of some 50 books, including text books on thermal process engineering, thermodynamics, and unit operations, as well as more than 300 papers in scientific journals. He received the Arnold-Eucken award of the GVC. Apart from his professorship, he is CEO of the company DDBST GmbH founded in 1989, responsible for the continuous update of the Dortmund Data Bank and its integrated software package, as well as director of the Laboratory for Thermophysical Properties (LTP) GmbH, which was founded in 1999. He currently also serves as an elected member in three scientific boards of GVC and DECHEMA, and in the Editorial Advisory Board of four international scientific journals.