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Team members from many nations are working in an interdisciplinary research environment: chemical engineers, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, control and computer engineers are cooperating closely.
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Our Max Planck Institute, located in Magdeburg, is dedicated to all aspects of process systems engineering, chemical, biochemical and energy systems, that are vital to the future of well-being of human society globally. It is our aim to optimize these increasingly complex processes in modern production systems.
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A specific strength of our MPI is the combination of systems-theoretical approaches with experimental validation carried out under one roof. We further develop mathematical, computational and control theoretic methods along with the various process applications investigated here.

News

Indian and German process and chemical engineers strengthen their close collaboration
The 5th Indo-German Workshop on "Advances in Materials, Reactions and Separation Processes" was successfully held in February 2024 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Closing life cycles is the main topic of the "Process Systems Engineering and Technical Cybernetics" 2024 student internship
High school students from Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, Berlin, Brussels and Stockholm spend a week at the Max Planck Institute Magdeburg (Press Release in German)
Mathematics meets mechanical engineering
From March 18 to 22, 2024, around 1,000 scientists from over 30 countries are expected to attend the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) in Magdeburg. The topics of the conference range from numerics and fluid mechanics to materials science. (Press Release in German)
Major success for Magdeburg as a hub of science and research
The Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg has successfully taken an important hurdle in the nationwide competition for clusters of excellence: As announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on February 2, 2024, the SmartProSys research initiative, which is based in process systems engineering, was selected by an international panel of experts to apply with a full proposal for millions in funding from 2026 as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State governments. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems are significantly involved in the SmartProSys research initiative in Magdeburg.
(Press release in German)
Mathematician Kang-Li Xu conducts research in Magdeburg supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
Humboldt Fellow from China visits the Max Planck Institute Magdeburg // Close collaboration on Riemannian optimization model order reduction methods for nonlinear systems

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May 23, 2024 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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Jun 13, 2024 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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Aug 29, 2024 - Aug 30, 2024
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Sep 26, 2024 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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MPI Colloquia 2024
The public colloquia series at the Max Planck Institute Magdeburg will be continued in 2024 with high-ranking scientists from renowned research institutions in Germany and around the world. Everybody who is interested, is invited to attend.
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Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

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Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

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Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

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Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

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Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

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Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

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Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

from Apr 2, 2024 09:00 AM to Apr 5, 2024 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Max Planck Colloquium “Chemical and/or Physical Fundamentals of Process Engineering”

from Apr 2, 2024 09:00 AM to Apr 5, 2024 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

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Latest Publications

Peterson, L.; Bremer, J.; Sundmacher, K.: Challenges in data-based reactor modeling: A critical analysis of purely data-driven and hybrid models for a CSTR case study. Computers & Chemical Engineering 184, 108643 (2024)
Goyal, P. K.; Benner, P.: Generalized Quadratic-Embeddings for Nonlinear Dynamics using Deep Learning. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 463, 134158 (2024)
Benner, P.; Faßbender, H.: Modellreduktion: Eine systemtheoretisch orientierte Einführung. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg (2024), XIV, 259 pp.
Kumar, R.; Stein, M.: The Fully Oxidized State of the Glutamate Coordinated O2-Tolerant [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Shows a Ni(III)/Fe(III) Open-Shell Singlet Ground State. Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, pp. 10954 - 10959 (2023)
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