Ulrich Krause (born 2 January 1959) is a process safety engineer and university professor. He is currently a full professor and the chair of Institute of Apparatus and Environmental Technology (IAUT) at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Additionally, Ulrich co-leads the EU GREEN – WP3 Research initiative (EU GREEN Cluster 3)
Education and career.
After completing primary and high school, Ulrich pursued studies in fluid mechanics and technical thermodynamics at the TU Dresden from 1980 to 1985. Following his graduation, he served as a scientific assistant at the same institution from 1985 to 1989 and earned his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in 1989 with his dissertation on "Investigations on the one-dimensional non-equilibrium two-phase flow".
From 1990 to 1991, he worked as a researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Research Center for Mechanization and Energy Application. Subsequently, he joined the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), where he served as a senior researcher and project manager from 1991 to 2005. During this tenure, he completed his Habilitation at TU Dresden on the topic of "Heat and mass transport processes in safety-related investigation procedures for dust fires and dust explosions."
In 2005, Ulrich was appointed head of the working group "Combustible Bulk Materials and Dusts, Solid Fuels" at BAM, followed by his role as head of Section 7.3 "Fire Engineering" from 2006 to 2011. In 2011, he became a full professor of plant design and process safety and has since chaired the Institute of Apparatus and Environmental Technology.
In addition to his academic work, Ulrich is an active process safety consultant and the editor of the textbook "Fires in Silos".
Selected publications.
Ulrich has author or co-author over 188 publications. Below is a selection of his most influential works: