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Curriculum Vitae Andreas Bräuer
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Siegfried Bräuer
born May 19th, 1978 in Weißenburg in Bavaria in Germany
married, one daughter
Scientific Career Progression
Education
June 2003 Degree in Chemical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing. Univ.)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in
Germany
Grade: “very good” (course duration was 9 semesters and 2
months including the thesis).
Thesis title: „Laser optical temperature determination in the
vaporizing spray of a gasoline direct injector‟ (Laseroptische
Temperaturbestimmung im verdampfenden Spray eines Injektors
für die Benzindirekteinspritzung)
October 2007 Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in Engineering Thermodynamics (Doktor
Ingenieur)
Faculty of Engineering, FAU
Grade: summa cum laude - “highest grade with distinction” after
4 years and 2 months (of 40 PhD graduates from the Institute of
Engineering Thermodynamics, only 3 graduated in a shorter
time).
Dissertation title: ‟Experimental analysis of the mixture
formation in the supercritical anti-solvent technology‟
(Experimentelle Gemischbildungsanalyse im überkritischen
anti-Solvent-Verfahren)
May 2010 Habilitation procedure started at the Faculty of Engineering at
FAU in “Engineering Thermodynamics”. Estimated completion
in spring 2013
Professional career
since April 2007 Head of the “Applied Raman Scattering (ARS) Laboratory“ at
the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical
Technologies (SAOT), which was established in November
2006 as part of the German Initiative for Excellence at the
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
(http://www.arl.aot.uni-erlangen.de/)
since April 2007 Member of the board of directors of SAOT
since January 2006 Head of the group on “Process Diagnostics”
(Prozessmesstechnik) at the Institute of Engineering
Thermodynamics LTT (FAU)

Curriculum Vitae Andreas Bräuer
Sept 2003 - Oct 2007 Research assistant at the Institute of Engineering
Thermodynamics (FAU)
Feb 2009 - April 2009 Visiting researcher at the University of Salerno (Italy) in
Professor Reverchon‟s group (research visit funded by the DFG
- German Research Foundation)
Septembers 2011 & 2012 Visiting researcher at the University of Salerno (Italy) in
Professor Reverchon‟s group (research visit funded by the
DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service)
April 2012 Lectureship “Laser Diagnostics for Engineering
Thermodynamics” at FAU Campus Busan in South Korea
Awards and Honors
Awards and honors for the applicant‟s group are listed here http://www.arl.aot.unierlangen.de/research/awards.html
September 2012 Young Academics Award conferred by the ProcessNet section
“Education and Innovation”
March 2012 Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award conferred by the ProcessNet
subsection “High Pressure Technology” for excellent, future
oriented, sustainable and published achievements
November 2008 Distinguished dissertation award conferred by the Faculty of
Engineering at FAU
July 2003 Distinguished thesis award for the achievements in the
“Chemical Engineering” program at the FAU conferred by the
Association of German Engineers (VDI)
November 2001 Grant (Scholarship) awarded by the Department of Chemical
and Bioengineering of the Faculty of Engineering at FAU
Reviewer for international journals listed in the SCI [8]
Applied Optics, Optics Letters, Experiments in Fluids, Chemical Engineering Journal, The
Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of
Crystal Growth and International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Miscellaneous
09/1997-06/1998 Military draft
2002-2005 Board member of the parish Hilpoltstein
2003-2006 Board member of the Kolping association Hilpoltstein
since 2010 Member of the association of German engineers (VDI)
since 2010 Member of the German university association (Deutscher
Hochschulverband)
since 2011 Member of the International Society of Advancement of
Supercritical Fluids ISASF