Employee directory

In the employee directory you will find contact information and profile pages for the DBFZ employees. The employees of the cooperation departments with the Helmholz Centre for Environmental Research, BEN and MicAs can be reached via the linked pages.


Claudia Kirsten
Dr.-Ing. Claudia Kirsten
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Job

Work group leader

Field of work

Since 03/2024 Dr.-Ing. Claudia Kirsten has been work group leader of the working group "Mechanical Benification Processes"  and deputy head of the Thermo-chemical Conversion department. She has been responsible for the research and development of alternative and high-quality biomass solid fuels since 08/2008. She has been involved in numerous national and international projects and is particularly concerned with optimising the product properties and the production process of compacts from biogenic residues and waste materials. Accordingly, she is the scientific contact person for the fuel conditioning lab at DBFZ.

Keywords

Fuel pre-treatment, pelleting, briquetting, mechanical process engineering, process optimisation, design of experiments

My publications

Publications of Claudia Kirsten at OpenAgrar

Curriculum vitae

Since 03/2024DBFZ
Deputy head of the department Thermo-chemical Conversion
Since 03/2024DBFZ
Work group leader "Mechanical Benification Processes"
06/2018 - 02/2014DBFZ
Deputy work group leader "Innovative Solid Biofuels"
01/2015 - 02/2024DBFZ
Research associate in the working group "Innovative Solid Biofuels" in the department Thermo-chemical Conversion.
01/2011 – 11/2021TU Berlin/TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Part-time PhD
Topic: Contribution to optimising the pelletising behaviour of digestate and landscape hay and their mixtures
Since 06/2018DBFZ
Deputy head in the working group Innovative Solid Biofuels
01/2012 - 12/2014TU Bergakademie Freiberg and DBFZ 
ESF-funded industrial Ph.D. scholarship 
08/2008 - 12/2011DBFZ
Research associate in the working group Innovative Solid Biofuels in the department Thermo-chemical Conversion.
Main focus:
Planning and implementation of mechanical fuel pre-treatment processes for the production of biomass pellets, set-up of fuel condition lab at DBFZ
05/2007 – 07/2008TU Dresden
Research associate at the Institute for Food and Bioprocess Engineering
Main focus: Enzyme production in fermentation processes and mechanical modification of biogenic raw materials
10/2001 - 04/2007TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Study of process engineering with focus on chemical-biological process engineering