Director
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Jirasek
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics
RPTU Kaiserslautern
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 44
Building 44/413
67663 Kaiserslautern
Phone.: +49(0)631 205-4685
Fax: +49(0)631 205-3835
E-Mail: fabian.jirasek@rptu.de
Research Focus
- Thermodynamic properties: experiment, modeling, simulation
- Design and optimization of chemical processes
- Monitoring and automation of chemical process plants
- NMR spectroscopy of complex mixtures
- Development of hybrid models by combining machine learning and physical knowledge
- Interpretability and explainability of machine learning
- Design of experiment and active learning
Teaching
Winter Term
- Energieverfahrenstechnik
- Wärmeübertragung
Summer Term
- Maschinelles Lernen in der Verfahrenstechnik
Office Hours
- Please contact me by email to make an appointment.
Career
| since 10/2024 | Director of the Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTD), RPTU Kaiserslautern | |
09/2020 - | CZS Junior Professor of Machine Learning in Process Engineering, RPTU Kaiserslautern | |
| 04/2020 - 08/2020 | Postdoc, Laboratory of Chemical Process Engineering, TU Munich (TUM) | |
| 08/2019 - 03/2020 | Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine (UCI) | |
| 06/2019 | PhD in Engineering with the Dissertation "Thermodynamic Modeling of Complex and Poorly Specified Mixtures", TU Kaiserslautern | |
| 01/2015 - 07/2019 | PhD Student, Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTD), TU Kaiserslautern | |
| 07/2014 - 10/2014 | Scientific Assistant, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics and Refigeration (ITTK), Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT) | |
| 10/2008 - 06/2014 | Studies in Biochemical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |