Driven by curiosity. Driving changeBiography
Professor Markus Kraft leads the Computational Modelling (CoMo) group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on using computational modelling and optimisation to develop carbon abatement and emissions reduction technologies for the automotive, power and chemical industries.
Markus obtained his Diplom Technomathematiker at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1992 and completed his Doctor rerum naturalium in Technical Chemistry at the same University in 1997.
He joined the University of Cambridge in 1999 and is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Markus served as Director of the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) from its inception in 2013 until 2024. He continues to serve as a Principal Investigator on the hydrogen and ammonia combustion project at CARES.
Research interests
- Emissions reduction across the automotive, power and chemical industries
- Modelling of combustion synthesis of organic and inorganic nanoparticles
- Hydrogen and ammonia combustion
Professor Kraft’s group develops and applies modern computational approaches to diverse subjects from combustion to quantum chemistry. The Computational Modelling Group is also developing automated laboratory technology and the ‘World Avatar’, a knowledge-graph-based digital twin of the world.
Awards and achievements
- Sugden Award – Combustion Institute, British Section – 2004
- Sir George Beilby Medal – IChemE/RSC/IoM – 2006
- Gaydon Prize – Combustion Institute, British Section – 2006
- Ricardo Award – Institute of Physics – 2009
- Gaydon Prize – Combustion Institute, British Section – 2018
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany – 2019
- Fellow – Combustion Institute (FCI) – 2020
- Turing Fellow – The Alan Turing Institute – 2021
- Distinguished Paper Prize, Multi-Physics Phenomena – The Combustion Institute – 2022
- Ricardo Award – Institute of Physics – 2023
- Fellow – Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) – 2024
- Geldart Medal – Institution of Chemical Engineers – 2026
Teaching and supervision
Professor Kraft teaches and supervises across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Professor Markus Kraft
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Computational Modelling research group leader