Research area
Energy systems optimization, conceptual process design, life cycle assessment, computer-​aided molecular design, thermodynamics, microfluidics and CO2 capture & utilization.
André Bardow has been full professor for Energy and Process Systems Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2020. He is also the director of the Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-​10) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Previously, he was a professor and head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen University (2010-​2020); and associate professor at TU Delft (2007-​2010). He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2015/16). He earned his Ph.D. degree at RWTH Aachen University.

Prof. Bardow is a fellow of the Royal Chemical Society and chairs the Technical Committee for Thermodynamics of VDI – The Association of German Engineers. He received the Recent Innovative Contribution Award of the CAPE-​Working Party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) in 2019, and the PSE Model-​Based Innovation (MBI) Prize by Process Systems Enterprise in 2018. He was the first recipient of the Covestro Science Award. In 2009, he received the Arnold-​Eucken-Award of the VDI-​Society for Chemical Engineering (GVC). He is the recipient of RWTH’s “FAMOS für Familie” award for family-​friendly leadership, and of teaching awards at RWTH and TU Delft.