Another Important Award for Professor Gabriele Sadowski
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Great honor for Professor Gabriele Sadowski from the Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University: She is the first woman to receive the “Distinguished Lecture Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties” from the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)
In doing so, the EFCE Working Party on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties has acknowledged Professor Sadowski’s internationally recognized achievements in the areas of modeling and experimental analysis of substance properties. The award jury explained: “She is an internationally leading personality in the field of thermodynamics. She also performs important work for our community and is a great teacher and mentor for the next generation of scientists.”
Gabriele Sadowski has been full professor for thermodynamics at TU Dortmund University since 2001. She is a member of the RESOLV cluster of excellence, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts as well as of acatech, the National Academy of Science and Engineering. In 2016 she was additionally appointed as TU Dortmund University’s Vice President Research.
Over 230 articles published in scientific journals
Her research work focuses on the modeling and analysis of the properties of complex substances and their composition, above all those with polymers, pharmaceutical substances as well as chemical and biological reactions.
Professor Sadowski has published over 230 articles in renowned international journals, which to date have been cited more than 8,000 times. She has already received several awards for her research, including the Arnold Eucken Prize of the VDI – The Association of German Engineers (1999). In 2011 she was among the ten scholars to receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most valuable international award for research.
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