Dr. Renate Schwiedernoch

Project manager of CO2 valorization: The CO2Val project focusses as well on monitoring carbon capture and utilization activities worldwide as also on achieving understanding of CO2 activation for fine chemical synthesis. Since 2016 E2P2L Communication Manager: The E2P2L communication team is in charge of design, building and maintenance of the E2P2L web page, organizing events and visits, writing news of our events, and publish the team’s scientific output.

Project Management in the Field of Ionic Liquids: developed project plans and implementation documents; built up a lab for water and air sensitive organic synthesis, established purification and analytical methods (CE, KF titration, NMR, ICP), train team members, developed a process to synthesis ultrapure ionic liquids; and managed project progresses and budgets.

worked as technical advisor, approved technical writing, carried through IP assessments, designed and implemented application experiments.

carried through competitor analysis, worked with senior management developing business plans and programs, organized customer visits.

designed experiments in the field of heterogeneous petro chemistry; evaluated massive amount of experimental data with analytical methods: QMS, GC, XRD; worked with engineering teams in the designing and developing process of HTE instruments.

Supervising, teaching, and examining undergraduate students in Physical Chemistry; lab management and first-aid representative; design and maintenance of the web pages of Prof. Deutschmann and Priv. Doz. Volpp.

Main focus here was to build up a laboratory for partial oxidation and combustion experiments and advice as a senior PhD student new master and PhD students in their experiments.

Built up a monolithic flow reactor for the conversion of methane to syngas. Based on the experimental results developed a detailed reaction mechanism to simulate the transient behavior (light-off, extinction, oscillations) of this process.

PhD Thesis at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Supervisors: Prof. O. Deutschmann, Prof. J. Wolfrum. Topic: Partial and Total Oxidation of Methane in Monolithic Catalysts at Short Contact Times. Final result: 1.0.

Organic, inorganic, physical chemistry, and environmental chemistry Diploma Thesis at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, topic: Investigation of the catalytic partial oxidation of methane on Rhodium coated Monoliths.