General Information

A short excerpt from the history of the institute and food process engineering in general can be found hier.

All former scientific staff members of the institute since its foundation in 1961 are also listed under the heading Alumni.

 

Notifications from the LVT

2024

  • Best oral presentation price at the Jahrestreffen der DECHEMA/VDI-Fachgruppe "Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik" to Julian Gerhäuser (28.02.2024)
  • Dissertation defense of Benjamin Bindereif (15.02.2024)

2023

  • Best poster price at the Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppe "Computational Fluid Dynamics" an Miguel Ballesteros (08.03.2023)
  • Best oral presentation price at the Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppe "Trocknungstechnik" to Till Sickert (07.03.2023)
  • Best oral presentation price at the Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppe "Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik" to Felix Ellwanger (15.03.2023)
  • 2. Place poster price at the Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppe "Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik" to Désirée Martin (15.03.2023)
  • First place for the participants of the LVT to the student contest „Trophelia 2023“ with their product ABNOBA (19.04.2023)
  • Dissertation defense of Nico Leister (20.09.2023)
  • First place for the participants of the LVT to the European food-innovation contest „Ecotrophelia 2023“ with their product ABNOBA (09.10.2023)

2022

  • Dissertation defense of Anna Martin (14.01.2022)
  • 1. Place oral presentation price in the Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppe "Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik" to Nico Leister (11.03.2022)
  • 2. Place poster price at the Food Hydrocolloids Conference to Jasmin Reiner (13.04.2022)
  • Third place for the participants of the LVT to the student contest „Trophelia 2022“ with their product Oatbreak (26.04.2022)
  • Gabriela Saavedra receives the 2. Place EFCE Food Processing Award (11.05.2022)
  • Dissertation defense of Felix Preiss (20.05.2022)
  • Miguel Ballesteros receives a Best Paper Award, International Conference of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (09.06.2022)
  • Nico Leister receives an Oral Presentation Prize from the Organizers, European Student Colloid Conference (30.06.2022)
  • Dissertation defense of Patrick Wittek (08.07.2022)
  • Dissertation defense of Martha Taboada (29.07.2022)
  • Gabriela Saavedra and Désirée Martin receive Best Poster Award 2022 at the 36th Conference of the European Colloid & Interface Society (ECIS) (09.09.2022)

2021

  • Successful habilitation of Dr. Volker Gaukel (10.05.2021)
  • Successful habilitation of Dr.-Ing. M. Azad Emin (26.05.2021)
  • Dissertation defense of Vera Schmid (01.10.2021)
  • Dissertation defense of Maria Gräfenhahn (19.11.2021)
  • Dissertation defense of Gabriela Saavedra (01.12.2021)

2020

  • 4th place in the competition Trophelia for Team Algelly (21.04.2020)
  • Defense of the dissertation of Verena Wiedenmann (17.06.2020)
  • Defense of the dissertation of Marc Wittner (26.06.2020)
  • Solis TV is shooting a film (on IHM CN with interview LVT, Gaukel) for SWR for the series "Marktcheck: Preiswert, nützlich, gut?", Oven and microwave. First broadcast December 8th, 2020 (October 8th, 2020)
  • ServusTV is shooting a film (report on meat substitute products) in the extruder technology center, broadcast probably in December 2020 (22.10.2020)
  • The research project "Untersuchungen zur Stabilität von Schmelzemulsionen: Erhalt der Produktqualität nach der Herstellung, beim Transport und Lagerung" is the GVT project of the year 2021 (02.12.2020)

2019

2018

  • Award of the Bernhard van Lengerich Forschungspreis (awarded by Berlin Brandenburgische Gesellschaft für Getreideforschung) to Valerie Pietsch (18.01.2018)
  • Award of the poster prize at the annual meeting of the ProcessNet-specialist group "Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik" to Tim Siebert (06.03.2018)
  • Award of the second poster prize at the annual meeting of the ProcessNet-specialist group "Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik" to Marc Wittner (06.03.2018)
  • First place for LVT participants in the student competition „Trophelia 2018“with their product kof.co (24.04.2018)
  • Award of the prize of the city of Karlsruhe for students at Karlsruhe universities to Frederik Link (supervised by Marc Wittner)
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heike P. Karbstein is appointed to the German National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech in recognition of her scientific merits (16.10.2018)
  • Third place for LVT participants in the student competition „ecoTrophelia 2018“ with their product kof.co (22.10.2018)
  • Award of the 3rd place GNT Young Scientist Award, 32nd EFFoST 2018, Nantes, France to Vera Schmid (8.11.2018)

2017

  • Student-excursion 2017  (05.12.17)
  • Benjamin Bindereif receives the doctoral scholarship of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg (27.11.2017)
  • Award of the special prize for Communication, Strategy and Marketing to the participants of the LVT in the student competition „EcoTrophelia 2017“ (22.11.2017)
  • Award of the KATech Prize 2017 to Dr.-Ing. Ulrike van der Schaaf (22.09.2017)
  • Award of the Max-Buchner-scholarship to Dr.-Ing. Ulrike van der Schaaf (07.06.2017)
  • Award of the lecture prize to Andreas Leiter at the annual meeting of the ProcessNet-specialist group Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik 2017 in Bruchsal (15.02.2017)
  • First Place & Innovation Award for LVT participants in the Student Competition „Trophelia 2017“ with their product Mixcuit (14.02.2017)
  • Second Place Award for LVT participants in the Student Competition „Trophelia 2017“ with their product Brost (14.02.2017)

2016

2015

  • Award of the KIT Doctoral Prize 2015 to  Dr.-Ing. Anna Schuch (21.12.2015)
  • GNT Best Young Scientist Award 2015 to Lea Koch at the EFFoST 2015 in Athens (12.11.2015)
  • Second place for Valerie Pietsch at the Best PhD Student of the Year Award in the EFFoST 2015 in Athens (12.11.2015)
  • Our spray drying project is the project of the month November 2015 at the Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V. (Research Group of the Food Industry): Unser Sprühtrockung Projekt ist das Projekt des Monats November 2015 beim Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V. (09.11.2015)
  • Our student, Lukas Poggemann, has taken 3rd place in the BGS Research Promotion Prize 2015 of the Baumann-Gonser Foundation. He was awarded for his bachelor thesis "Influence of process variables on the stability of pulpy fruit juices in high-pressure homogenization". (01.11.2015)
  • Lecture Award for Lea Koch at the Annual Meeting of the ProcessNet Expert Group 2015 in Magdeburg (16.06.2015)

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