Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRT), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CBI)
Wilhelm Schwieger studied Chemistry in Halle/Saale at the Martin-Luther-University from 1970 to 1974. In 1974 he joined the group of Prof. F. Wolf at the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the same University. After his PhD he joined the inorganic research division at the “Chemiekombinat Bitterfeld” where he became the head of the ‘Molecular-Sieve-Group’, a joined research activity between the industry and the university. After about ten years in the industrial research, he overtook an assistant professorship at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in 1989.
After two research internships in the year from 1992 to 1994, at the institute for Chemical Engineering at the University Karlsruhe in the group of Prof. Riekert and at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Group of Prof. Dr. C. A. Fyfe, he returned to Halle and finished his habilitation in 1994. In 1998, he was appointed in Erlangen where he overtook the professorship for ‘Technical Chemistry’ at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CBI) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
The research interests are widespread in the field of heterogenous catalysis and porous materials focusing at the structure formation and the application of porous systems. In particular: (i) synthesis and characterization of porous solids, (ii) surface chemistry on and in crystalline porous materials; (iii) structure-working relationships of porous materials in respect to their different applications; (iv) development of materials with hierarchical pore structures for the development of new catalysts and the design new reactor concepts.