Markus Kraft
Group Head
Biography
Prof. Markus Kraft is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He is the director of CARES, the Singapore-Cambridge CREATE Research Centre, and Principal Investigator of C4T the “Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology”, which is a CARES research programme. Professor Kraft obtained the academic degree 'Diplom Technomathematiker' at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1992 and completed his Doctor rerum naturalium in Chemistry at the same University in 1997. Subsequently, he worked at the University of Karlsruhe and the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin. In 1999 he became a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge. In 2012 he obtained a ScD form the same University.
He has a strong interest in the area of computational modelling and optimisation targeted towards developing carbon abatement and emissions reduction technologies for the automotive, power and chemical industries. Together with his research team he has also contributed significantly towards the detailed modelling of combustion synthesis of organic and inorganic nanoparticles and worked on spray drying and granulation of fine powders.
In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
Picture credit: Prof. Kraft at a school outreach event at Tanglin's STEM club as seen through the eyes of artist in residence, Ariel Yuan.
Research Themes
Recent Preprints
321: Knowledge Graph Representation of Zeolitic Crystalline Materials
Aleksandar Kondinski, Pavlo Rutkevych, Laura Pascazio, Dan N. Tran, Feroz Farazi, Srishti Ganguly, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 321, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
320: Fostering Urban Resilience and Accessibility in Cities: A Dynamic Knowledge Graph Approach
Shin Zert Phua, Markus Hofmeister, Yi-Kai Tsai, Oisín Peppard, Kok Foong Lee, Seán Courtney, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 320, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
Markus Hofmeister, Kok Foong Lee, Yi-Kai Tsai, Magnus Müller, Karthik Nagarajan, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 319, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
318: The Digital Lab Manager: Automating Research Support
Simon D. Rihm, Yong Ren Tan, Wilson Ang, Markus Hofmeister, Xinhong Deng, Michael Teguh Laksana, Hou Yee Quek, Jiaru Bai, Laura Pascazio, Sim Chun Siong, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 318, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
Recent Publications
Hacking decarbonization with a community-operated CreatorSpace
Aleksandar Kondinski, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, Andrew Breeson, Yong Ren Tan, Simon D. Rihm, Jiaru Bai, and Markus Kraft, Chem 10(4), 1071-1083, (2024).
A nuclear future? Small Modular Reactors in a carbon tax-driven transition to clean energy
Wanni Xie, John Atherton, Jiaru Bai, Feroz Farazi, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Applied Energy 364, 123128, (2024).
Leveraging Text-to-Text Pretrained Language Models for Question Answering in Chemistry
Dan N. Tran, Laura Pascazio, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, and Markus Kraft, ACS Omega 9(12), 13883-13896, (2024).
Transforming research laboratories with connected digital twins
Simon D. Rihm, Jiaru Bai, Aleksandar Kondinski, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Nexus 1(1), 100004, (2024).
Contact Details
Email: | mk306@cam.ac.uk_delete_this_bit |
Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 762784 (Dept) 769010 (CHU) |
Address: | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology University of Cambridge West Cambridge Site Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS United Kingdom |
Website: | Personal Homepage |