Heidrun Gruber-Wölfler's Biography

Heidrun Gruber-Wölfler, Associate Professor, Graz University of Technology

Assoc.Prof. Heidrun Gruber-Woelfler studied technical chemistry at Graz University of Technology, Austria, with a focus on chemical engineering. After her PhD dealing with organometallic catalysis and molecular modelling, she did her Post-Doc in the area of continuous processes for the synthesis and purification of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Since 2014 she is the head of the research group “Continuous Synthesis and Processes” at the Institute of Process and Particle Engineering (http://ippt.tugraz.at/), TU Graz, and since 2016 the deputy head of this institute. Furthermore, Heidrun Gruber-Woelfler is key researcher at the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE, (http://www.rcpe.at/) GmbH, and since July 2017 the Deputy Director of the Center of Continuous Flow Synthesis and Processing (CCFlow) in Graz. Her current projects deal with flow chemistry, heterogeneous (bio)catalysis and continuous processes, as well as reactor design including additive manufacturing, real-time analyses, automation and self-optimization.