User:SciLEM/Udo Kragl

Udo Kragl (born 20 May 1961 in Troisdorf-Sieglar, Germany) is a German chemist and biotechnologist. He is the Professor of Technical and Applied Chemistry at the University of Rostock. He is married and has two children.

Career
Udo Kragl studied chemistry at the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1987. He did research at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Christian Wandrey's research group and received his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1992. From 2004 to 2006, Kragl was the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Rostock. Since 2007, he is the Founding Dean of the Interdisciplinary Faculty of the University of Rostock. From February to April 2007, he was a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. Since 2015, Kragl is the Vice-Rector of Research and Transfer of Knowledge at the University of Rostock. Professor Kragl was elected as "Professor of the Year" in the category Natural Sciences / Medicine in 2015. In 1997, Kragl was awarded with a scholarship from the Karl-Winnacker-Foundation (formerly Hoechst AG).

Research activities
From the beginning of his academic career, Kragl was doing research in the field of biocatalysis, focussing on the synthetic application of enzymes. During the last years, Kragl extended his research also to the fields of:


 * Membrane technology
 * Renewable raw materials
 * The constantly growing topic of ionic liquids and
 * Trace and process analysis

Cooperation in committees
For several years, Kragl has been active in various committees:


 * Member of the Executive Board of DECHEMA's Catalysis Section
 * Member of the Advisory Board of the Conference of the Departments of Chemistry