Antonia Kesel

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VDI President Udo Ungeheuer awarded the VDI Decoration to Antonia B. Kesel in November 2016

Antonia Bettina Kesel (* 1962 in Saarbrücken ) is a German bionic scientist, university lecturer, non-fiction and science author. She is the founder of the world's first undergraduate course in bionics and heads the bionics study program at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences with the international bionics course and the master's course "Bionics: Mobile Systems".

Career

Kesel studied biology with Werner Nachtigall at the Saarland University from 1983 and graduated in 1989 with a thesis on neurophysiological aspects of fish locomotion. In 1993 the dissertation on aquatic locomotion followed under muscular physiological, dynamic movement and biomechanical aspects in fish. In 2001, Kesel wrote her habilitation thesis on biomechanical analyzes of the material, structure and function of the ultra-light wings of insects.

In 2003 Antonia Kesel accepted a professorship for “Technical Zoology and Bionics” at the University of Bremen , where she developed the bionics course. In 2005 she founded the Bionics Innovation Center (BIC) at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences, which she has headed ever since.

Offices and Awards

Since 2004 Kesel has been President of the Society for Technical Biology and Bionics eV (GTBB). She has also been a member of the board of directors since 2004 and has also been chairwoman of the board of Bionik-Kompetenznetzes eV (BIOKON) since 2013 ; in this office she was confirmed for a further term of office in 2016 and again in 2019. Since 2009 Kesel has also been a founding member and board member of BIOKON International eV

The Technical University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe (TH OWL) appointed Kesel to its university council , which elected her chairman in its constituent meeting on January 24, 2014.

In 2016, the Association of German Engineers (VDI) awarded Kesel the VDI Badge of Honor for their work and successes in bionics. Above all, her commitment to establishing bionics as a subject at German universities and for anchoring bionics in the VDI was recognized. Since 2007, Kesel has been chairing the VDI bionics department. From 2009 to 2014, she also took over the chairmanship of the VDI specialist society Technologies of Life Sciences.

Works (selection)

Kesel presented over 100 scientific publications. She is co-editor of the series Bionics: Patents from Nature , in which the contributions of the bionics congresses of the same name appear every two years, which are organized by the Society for Technical Biology and Bionics e. V. (GTBB) together with BIOKON eV and the Bionics Innovation Center (BIC) of the University of Bremen.

  • (2016): with Stefanie Wuttke and Bionik-Innovations-Centrum: Haihaut 2.0 - Production of biologically inspired anti-fouling surfaces for large-scale application in shipbuilding Shark2Shipyard (S2S): Final report on a research project, funded under AZ 30726 by the German Federal Environmental Foundation. Bremen: Bionics Innovation Center of the University of Bremen.
  • (2015): Bionics. 1st edition Frankfurt am Main: Fischer E-Books. ISBN 978-3-10-560292-8
  • (2010): Can processes from nature be transferred to economic processes? In: Klaus-Stephan Otto and Thomas Speck (eds.): Darwin meets business . Wiesbaden: Gabler, Springer Fachmedien.
  • (2007) with Ralph Liedert: European patent application "Antifouling Coating" EP 06 018 001.5. 2007.
  • (2005) Bionics: How can technology learn from nature? Which path leads from evolution to technical construction? Why is spider silk more tear-resistant than steel? How do self-cleaning flowers and insect eyes work? Frankfurt: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag.
  • (1999) with Monika M. Junge and Werner Nachtigall: Introduction to applied statistics for bioscientists . Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser.

Web links

Bionics at the University of Bremen

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Antonia B. Kesel: A report to a college (freely based on Franz Kafka). In: Wissenschaftskolleg - Institute for advanced studies - zu Berlin, 1998/99 yearbook, work reports, pp. 65–69. Wolfgang Lepenies, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c Arnim von Gleich, Christian Pade, Ulrich Petschow, Eugen Pissarskoi: 4.2 The networks “BioKoN” and “Competence Network Biomimetics”. In: Bionics. Current trends and future potentials, p. 92. University of Bremen, 2007, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b o. V .: Prof. Dr. Antonia Kesel again chairwoman of the board of the bionics competence network BIOKON eV In: Press releases. University of Bremen, October 27, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b o. V .: Prof. Dr. Antonia B. Kesel. In: AcademiaNet. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c o. V .: VDI badge of honor for the BIOKON board chairwoman Professor Antonia Kesel. In: News // November 24, 2016. BIOKON - The Bionics Competence Network, November 24, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ o. V .: A strong team for bionics. In: News. BIOKON - The Bionics Competence Network, November 28, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ top v .: Professor Antonia Kesel new chairwoman of the university council of the Hochschule OWL. In: News. Technical University Ostwestfalen-Lippe, January 24, 2014, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b o. V .: VDI honors services in bionics: VDI badge of honor for Prof. Dr. Antonia Kesel. In: [press release]. Hochschule Bremen - City University of Applied Sciences, November 24, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kesel, Antonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kesel, Antonia Bettina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bionic
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken