Prof. Volker Hessel
Professor, University of Adelaide
Prof. Volker Hessel studied chemistry at Mainz University, PhD 1993. Further career steps were: 1994, Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz/D as Vice Director R&D and Director R&D; 2005, Eindhoven University of Technology/NL as professor; 2019, at University of Warwick/UK as part-time professor. In 2018, he was appointed as Deputy Dean (Research) and professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is Research Director of Adelaide's Andy Thomas Centre of Space Resources.
Prof. Hessel's research is on microfluidic and plasma processes and their application to health, chemistry, agrifood, and space. He has published 502 peer-reviewed papers (h-index: 61, Scopus) and was authority in the Parliament Enquete Commission "Future of Chemical Industry". He received the AIChE Award "Excellence in Process Development Research" and the IUPAC ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry, as well as the ERC Advanced/Proof of Concept/Synergy and FET OPEN Grants.