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Professor Dirk Biermann Admitted to the NRW Academy of Sciences

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A portrait of a man in a suit in front of a green tree, the man is Prof. Dirk Biermann. © Institut für Spanende Fertigung​/​TU Dortmund
Dirk Biermann has been a professor at TU Dortmund University since 2007 and heads the Institute of Machining Technology.
In May, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts admitted Professor Dirk Biermann from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dortmund University as one of ten new members. Professor Biermann was admitted to the Class for Engineering and Economics. Academy members are distinguished by “outstanding research work in their fields”. They cultivate a dialogue with stakeholders from politics, business and culture as well as with academic institutions at home and abroad.

Dirk Biermann, a mechanical engineer, has been a professor at TU Dortmund University since 2007 and heads the Institute of Machining Technology. Before that, he worked for eight years as production manager for a large German engine development company in Remscheid. When Biermann accepted the call to Dortmund in 2007, he was returning to his alma mater: He had already studied mechanical engineering here, earned his doctoral degree, and conducted research and worked as a senior engineer. Professor Biermann is currently coordinating, among others, the FLUSIMPRO Priority Program of the German Research Foundation at the Institute of Machining Technology, which is investigating the role of fluids in production processes. From 2014 to 2016, Professor Biermann was involved in the management of TU Dortmund University as Vice President Research. For him, strengthening research across the different locations in the University Alliance Ruhr and helping young academics to apply for and implement externally funded projects were particularly important. In 2015, Biermann was admitted to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), where he contributes his expertise to advising politics and society.

Professor Stefan Raunser and Professor Benjamin List are also new members

The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts has also recently admitted Professor Stefan Raunser and Professor Benjamin List – to the Class for Natural Sciences and Medicine. Raunser is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund and adjunct professor for structural biochemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology of TU Dortmund University. List has been a member of RESOLV, the Cluster of Excellence of TU Dortmund University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), since 2012. In 2021, List, who is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of chemical catalysis.

About the Academy

The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts was founded in 1970. In addition to the sciences, since 2008 it is the only German academy to integrate the arts under its umbrella. Only excellent scholars and artists are admitted. The members cultivate academic dialogue among themselves as well as exchange with research and cultural institutions at home and abroad. Only those can be elected who, according to the statutes, have “distinguished themselves through academic or artistic accomplishments”. At the present time, the Academy has around 270 full members and almost 140 corresponding members.
 

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