Hans-Ulrich Moritz

Hans-Ulrich Moritz (born June 30, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Moritz studied chemistry as a major and general business administration as a minor at the TU Berlin from 1972 to 1977. In Karl-Heinz Reichert doctorate Moritz 1982 on the "continuous bead polymerization of Vinylactetat in a stirred tubular reactor" at the Institute of Industrial Chemistry at the TU Berlin. In 1988 he received his habilitation on "Computer-aided laboratory reactor for emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate" in the subject of technical chemistry. Moritz then worked at the plastics laboratory at BASF in Ludwigshafen. In 1990 he accepted a position at the University of Paderborn , where he worked as a professor in the subject of technical chemistry and chemical process engineering. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Hamburg.

Act

His specialties are polymerisation technology and chemical safety technology. In his research group, work was done on multifunctional initiators and the kinetics of emulsion polymerization . The main focus of polymerization technology is on reactors with secondary flow. Here, coiled tubular reactors and the Taylor reactor deserve special mention. Hans-Ulrich Moritz has played a part in the fact that wound tubular reactors are increasingly finding their way into millireactor technology.

Moritz is a member of the Society of German Chemists , the Society for Chemical Technology and Biotechnology and the International Advisory Board Macromolecular Reaction Engineering . Together with DECHEMA, he organizes the "International Workshop on Polymer Reaction Engineering" every three years and the annual advanced training course "Polymerization Technology". At the same time, he acts as chairman of the working committee "Reaction technology for safety-related difficult processes" within the framework of Process Net and in the "teaching committee for scientific universities"

Web links

• Moritz on the homepage of the Chemistry Institute at the University of Hamburg