Jochen Strube is a chemical engineer and since 2006 Director of the Institute of Thermal Process Engineering at Clausthal University of Technology. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Dortmund from 1985 to 1992 and received his diploma in 1992. Afterward, he worked as a research associate in process and plant engineering under Prof. H. Schmidt-Traub, supported by a graduate scholarship from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and a Max Buchner Research Fellowship. He earned his doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on the simulation and optimization of continuous SMB chromatography and subsequently served as senior engineer and habilitation candidate, building and leading a research group in adsorption and chromatography. In 1998, he received the University of Dortmund’s teaching award, and in 1999 completed his habilitation on technical chromatography, earning the Venia Legendi in process engineering. He then joined Bayer AG in technical development, where from 2000 he was responsible for adsorption, chromatography, and ion exchange, including process development, plant design, and strategic research projects in fluid and bioprocess engineering. Until 2006, he held technical and economic responsibility for chromatography process development and plant engineering before assuming his current role at TU Clausthal.
&nsbp;
