Markus Kraft
Group Head

Biography
Prof. Markus Kraft is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He is the director of CARES, the Singapore-Cambridge CREATE Research Centre, and Principal Investigator of C4T the “Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology”, which is a CARES research programme. Professor Kraft obtained the academic degree 'Diplom Technomathematiker' at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1992 and completed his Doctor rerum naturalium in Chemistry at the same University in 1997. Subsequently, he worked at the University of Karlsruhe and the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin. In 1999 he became a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge. In 2012 he obtained a ScD form the same University.
He has a strong interest in the area of computational modelling and optimisation targeted towards developing carbon abatement and emissions reduction technologies for the automotive, power and chemical industries. Together with his research team he has also contributed significantly towards the detailed modelling of combustion synthesis of organic and inorganic nanoparticles and worked on spray drying and granulation of fine powders.
In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
Picture credit: Prof. Kraft at a school outreach event at Tanglin's STEM club as seen through the eyes of artist in residence, Ariel Yuan.
Research Themes









Recent Preprints
303: Semantic 3D City Inferences - multi-domain reasoning on Dynamic Geospatial Knowledge Graphs
Arkadiusz Chadzynski, Heidi Silvennoinen, Ayda Grisiute, Feroz Farazi, Sebastian Mosbach, Martin Raubal, Pieter Herthogs, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 303, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2023.
302: A Derived Information Framework for a Dynamic Knowledge Graph and its Application to Smart Cities
Jiaru Bai, Kok Foong Lee, Markus Hofmeister, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 302, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2023.
301: British Imbalance Market Paradox: Variable Renewable Energy Penetration in Energy Markets
John Atherton, Markus Hofmeister, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 301, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2023.
300: Knowledge Engineering in Chemistry: From Expert Systems to Agents of Creation
Aleksandar Kondinski, Jiaru Bai, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 300, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2022.
Recent Publications
Yong Ren Tan, Qiren Zhu, Yichen Zong, Maurin Salamanca, Jiawei Lai, Jethro Akroyd, Wenming Yang, and Markus Kraft, Fuel 338, 127296, (2023).
Modelling treatment of deposits in particulate filters for internal combustion emissions
Chung Ting Lao, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 96, 101043, (2023).
OntoPESScan: An Ontology for Potential Energy Surface Scans
Angiras Menon, Laura Pascazio, Daniel Nurkowski, Feroz Farazi, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, ACS Omega 8(2), 2462-2475, (2023).
Evaluating the effect of n-butanol additive on particulate matter emission in diesel engine
Qiren Zhu, Yichen Zong, Yong Ren Tan, Jieyao Lyu, Wenbin Yu, Wenming Yang, and Markus Kraft, Fuel 332(1), 126003, (2023).
Contact Details
Email: | mk306@cam.ac.uk_delete_this_bit |
Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 762784 (Dept) 769010 (CHU) |
Address: | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology University of Cambridge West Cambridge Site Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS United Kingdom |
Website: | Personal Homepage |