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.
He was elected a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute in 2021, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2024.
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
336: Extraction of chemical synthesis information using The World Avatar
Simon D. Rihm, Fabio Saluz, Aleksandar Kondinski, Jiaru Bai, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 336, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2025.
Jiaru Bai, Simon D. Rihm, Aleksandar Kondinski, Fabio Saluz, Xinhong Deng, George Brownbridge, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 335, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2025.
Frederick Ivens, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 334, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2025.
333: Singapore MacKay Carbon Calculator Powered by The World Avatar
Mei Qi Lim, Sushant S. Garud, Srishti Ganguly, Kok Foong Lee, Li Chin Law, Yong Ren Tan, Wilson Ang, Wen Liu, Raymond Lau, Kunn Hadinoto, Iftekhar A. Karimi, Epaminondas Mastorakos, S. Viswanathan, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 333, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
Recent Publications
Natural language access point to digital metal–organic polyhedra chemistry in The World Avatar
Simon D. Rihm, Dan N. Tran, Aleksandar Kondinski, Laura Pascazio, Fabio Saluz, Xinhong Deng, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Data-Centric Engineering 6, 22, (2025).
Municipal heat planning within The World Avatar
Yi-Kai Tsai, Markus Hofmeister, Srishti Ganguly, Kushagar Rustagi, Yong Ren Tan, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Energy and AI 20, 100479, (2025).
A Platform Ecosystem Providing New Data For The Energy Transition
Markus Duchon, Jessy Matar, Mahsa Faraji Shoyari, Alexander Perzylo, Ingmar Kessler, Patrick Buchenberg, Philipp Kuhn, Thomas Hamacher, Thorsten Schlachter, Wolfgang Süss, Nguyen Xuan Thinh, Haniyeh Ebrahimi Salari, Jasmin Latko, Minsheng Xu, Maxim Shamovich, Dominik Schlütter, Jérôme Frisch, Kushagar Rustagi, Markus Kraft, Carolin Ayasse, Florian Steinke, Michael Metzger, and Laura Kuper, ACM SIGENERGY Energy Informatics Review 4(4), 226-237, (2025).
Exploring the potential landscape of chemical engineering science
Claire S Adjiman, Panagiota Angeli, André Bardow, Stacey F Bent, Nigel Brandon, Katie Galloway, Raymond J Gorte, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, Claudia Gutiérrez-Antonio, Marta C Hatzell, Michael C Jewett, Marlene Kanga, Michael Köpke, Markus Kraft, Ung Lee, Yayuan Liu, Guanghui Ma, Ewa Marek, Massimo Morbidelli, Eranda Nikolla, Maria Papathanasiou, Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, Ingo Pinnau, Shi-Zhang Qiao, Vivek V Ranade, Luis Ricardez-Sandoval, Sindia M Rivera-Jiménez, Kirti Chandra Sahu, Berend Smit, Randall Q Snurr, Cíntia Soares, Kevin Solomon, Kazuhiro Takanabe, Xiaonan Wang, Fei Wei, Matthias Wesseling, Kathryn Whitehead, John M Woodley, Zaiku Xie, and Yushan Yan, Nature Chemical Engineering 2, 19-25, (2025).
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 |