Karsten Peter Thiessen

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Karsten Peter Thiessen (born July 20, 1936 in Berlin-Dahlem ) is a German chemist . In 1979 he discovered the tribogalvanic effect .

Life

Karsten Thiessen (2015)

Karsten Thiessen was born in Berlin as the son of the physical chemist Peter Adolf Thiessen . His brother is the German physicist Klaus Thiessen . At the end of World War II, his father and his family were taken to the USSR along with other German scientists to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Thiessen passed his matriculation examination in Russia in 1954 and studied chemistry from 1954 to 1956 at Lomonossow University in Moscow . From 1956 Thiessen studied from 1957 to 1959 at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 1959 to 1962 at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald, where he graduated in 1962 on the subject of "Design and construction of a high-temperature furnace with oxide-ceramic heating conductors" .

1966 doctorate Karsten Thiessen in Berlin to Dr. rer. nat. on the subject of "Conduction processes in the cubic mixed phase ZrO 2 -CaO". From 1981 to 1983 Thiessen completed a postgraduate course in technical chemistry. His habilitation as a Dr. sc. nat. took place in 1983 on the subject of "Phenomenology, analysis and theory of the interaction of local and integral processes on solid-state electrodes under the influence of mechanical impacts."

From 1962 to 1991 Thiessen worked at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1984 to 1991 he was Head of Solid State Reactivity and from 1990 to 1991 Deputy Managing Director. In 1985 Thiessen was appointed professor at the GDR Academy of Sciences.

At the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Thiessen was responsible for the following scientific problems:

  • Electrochemistry
  • other aspects of physico-chemical problems in materials science:
    • Mechanochemistry
    • Tribochemistry
    • Corrosion research
  • Assessment of
    • Steel structures
    • Chemical plants
    • Thermal power and electrical systems
  • Damage analyzes and reports

At the end of 1991 the AdW was wound up in accordance with Article 38, Paragraph 3 of the Unification Agreement. In August 1992, Thiessen founded IKOSTA GmbH (Institute for Corrosion and Wear Protection Technology Adlershof), of which he was managing director until 1996.

From 1993 to 1996 Thiessen was an academic assistant with a teaching position at the University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Economics in Berlin (FHTW) .

Thiessen is currently working as a consulting engineer / expert in the field of the "pathology" of materials, i.e. material damage, especially corrosion and fatigue damage.

Furthermore, he has been teaching materials technology and the basics of nanotechnologies at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in the Department of Engineering II as a lecturer since 1997 .

Thiessen has 25 patents on measuring devices, metal surface modification, artificial fertilizers, phosphorus elimination from wastewater and new types of chemical solid-state sensors, magnetic fluid technology, separation of waste products.

Honors

Thiessen is a member of the following companies:

  • Fellowship of the French Community of UL Brussels (1979).

Member of the Society for Corrosion Protection (GfKorr),

  • Member of the Society for Tribology (GfT),
  • Friends d. Study course restoration / excavation technology at the FHTW Berlin,
  • National Geographic Society.

Fonts (selection)

Thiessen has written around 50 publications, including a .:

  • Tribochemistry (Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984)
  • Corrosion protection - history - technology - economy (Verlag Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1989)
  • TRIBOCHEMISTRY VERSUS NANO-TRIBOLOGY I., Theoretical considerations on making a TANDEM NANOSCOPE Eur. Chem. Bull. 2016, 5 (10), 420-422

Web links

Commons : Karsten Peter Thiessen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HTW Berlin: Prof. Dr. Karsten Thiessen - University of Applied Sciences Berlin University of Applied Sciences - HTW Berlin. In: htw-berlin.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Vita. In: thiessen-berlin.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiessen, Karsten Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiessen, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin