Professor at the Technical University of Cologne
Contacts: +49 (0)2261 8196 6483, +49 (0)151 228 435 77
E-mail: christian.wolf@th-koeln.de
Address: Immertweg 1, 51647 Gummersbach
Date of birth: 06.09.1981, Engelskirchen
Marital status: married (since 2006), two children
Professional experience
08/2018 — Professor, Cologne University of Applied Sciences
08/2015–07/2018 — Technical Director, Association for Mining Waste Management
07/2013 — Technical Project Management / Shareholder, GECOdC GmbH
10/2013–07/2018 — Lecturer at Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Software Engineering and Technical Project Management within the international Master’s program in Automation and Industrial IT
07/2006–07/2015 — Research Associate, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Gummersbach Campus, Environmental Computing Center Gummersbach (GECOdC)
Education
01/2007–10/2013 — Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
10/2001–05/2006 — Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Gummersbach Campus, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automation and Industrial Information Technology
08/1992–06/2001 — Grotenbach High School, Gummersbach
Further training
Ph.D. eeng. (Dr.) — Modeling, optimization and measurement technology for agricultural biogas plants
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Bongards (TH Cologne) and Prof. Dr. Sean McLoone (Queen’s University Belfast)
Diploma thesis
Development and experimental validation of a simulation model for optimizing the control of agricultural biogas plants
International project experience
08/2005–10/2005 — DAAD scholarship holder, Taiwan
10/2004–03/2005 — Practical semester in Malaysia, Elektrisola Malaysia SDN BHD, Kuala Lumpur
Experience in managing national and European R&D projects
National projects
2015–2019 — Intelligent measurement methods for optimization of drinking water supply
2014–2016 — German-Finnish ZIM Project MEMS-BIOPRO: Miniature MIR sensors for optimization of bioprocesses
2011–2013 — ZIM Project INNO-MIR Biogas: Development of an innovative online MIR measurement system for biogas plants
2008–2010 — Pro-INNO II Project MOBIO: Process optimization based on modeling of biogas plants
2009 — DFG proposal for major equipment: online particle analyzer
2006–2008 — Pro-INNO Project PROBIG: Online optimization of biogas plant control using intelligent adaptive control systems
European projects
2013–2017 — Energy of Water: standard method and online tool for assessing and improving the energy efficiency of wastewater treatment plants, budget €1,700,000
2013–2017 — ATBEST: Advanced technologies for improving the efficiency, sustainability and transport of biogas, budget €3,800,000; role: scientific partner – development of biogas measurement technologies
2009–2015 — metabolon Waste2Energy (EFRE), budget €25,000,000; role: coordinator of biogas research
2011–2015 — RENEW (Interreg IVb), budget €4,859,329; role: research partner – data analysis, process optimization, monitoring
2009–2011 — SILCO (FP7), innovative electrodes for monitoring metal trace ionization to combat legionella and other pathogens in water supply systems, budget €1,400,000; role: co-coordinator – software development
Languages
German — native, English, French
IT skills
Operating systems: Linux, Windows
Programming languages: C/C++/C#
