From December 2009 to February 2013, Clemens Schneider worked on a BMBF-funded joint project entitled "Modeling, simulation and experiments on boiling processes in pressurized water reactors". The TU Dresden with the Institute of Fluid Mechanics, the Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy Technology and the Faculty of Medicine as well as the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf, the Ruhr University Bochum, the TU Munich, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, ANSYS Germany and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences were represented in the research network.

Dr. Schneider's sub-project entitled "Experimental investigation of boiling processes using optical methods and parameter determination for CFD calculations on small-scale test rigs" made a significant contribution to the experimental part of the network and provided the basis for his doctorate.

The doctorate was carried out in cooperation with the Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy Technology at the TU Dresden under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Hurtado. The supervision on the part of the university was provided by the former rector, Prof. Rainer Hampel. In addition to numerous seminars and workshops, technical papers and presentations at national and international conferences as well as the publication of the results in scientific journals were an integral part of the doctoral process.

With the defense on 28.07.2015 and the subsequent publication of the dissertation entitled "Experimental investigations on bubble boiling in supercooled flows" at the "Sächsische Landes-, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek" (SLUB) in Dresden, the procedure was successfully completed with the grade "magna cum laude".

In addition, the traditional "post-defense" of Mr. Schneider's doctoral thesis took place on December 4, 2015 in the DeZi-Bar in Zittau (basement of dormitory D) in the company of IPM colleagues. This "post-defense" is a traditional ritual in which the candidate has to overcome the final hurdles to the doctorate. A freely appointed examination committee assessed the dissertation by reading out two "bad reports". The candidate then had to prove whether he knew the content of his thesis and was able to independently set up an appropriate experimental design, carry out experiments and evaluate them. Dr. Schneider successfully completed all the requirements of this highly scientific examination and was ceremoniously presented with the "official" doctoral certificate and doctoral hat by the examination committee.

Over the past 22 years, 15 scientists have completed their doctorates at the IPM.

Contact:

Institute of Process Engineering, Process Automation and Metrology (IPM)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch

Mail: a.kratzsch(at)hszg.de