Professor Natalie Germann is originally from Switzerland where she received her basic training and PhD from ETH in Zürich. Currently she is professor in Fluid Dynamics of Complex Biosystems at the Technical University of Munich.
Before joining TUM’s Faculty of Life Science Engineering she performed research at several places around the world, at University of Delaware, University of New South Wales and at the National Food Research Institute in Japan.
Her specialities include experimental rheology, nonequilibrium thermodynamic modelling, and numerical simulation of complex, industrially relevant fluids. Her current projects focus on diverse aspects of life science such as rinsing and cleaning of spiral wound membranes, kneading of wheat dough, multiphase flows with partially miscible components, rheology-structure-processing relationships of milk proteins, in situ real-time mechanical characterization of chemical gelation, and shear banding phenomena in soft materials.
The title of her plenary talk was:
Perspectives of 3D viscoelastic simulations in process design and optimization - dough kneading as a example of an industrial food process
Daniel Read is Professor of Soft Matter at the University of Leeds. His areas of interest include polymers, rheology, tube model, branched polymer reactions, stochastic physics and coarse graining proteins. Professor Read is interested in the links between molecular structure, molecular dynamics, flow properties, and reaction chemistry of polymer materials. Understanding this often involves large multidisciplinary teams, including mathematicians, physicists, chemists and engineers. Current research activities include Polymer dynamics and rheology, Coarse-grained dynamics of globular proteins, Reaction chemistry and branched polymer architecture and Polymer dynamics and neutron scattering. Professor Read is also Head of Department for Applied Mathematics and has just stepped down from being Bulletin Editor for the British Society of Rheology.
The title of his plenary talk was:
Rheology and flow induced crystallisation of polydisperse linear polymers.
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