President

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Krahl was born in Detmold in 1962 and lived in Lemgo until his secondary school graduation. From 1984 to 1990 he studied chemistry at the TU Braunschweig. From 1990 to 1997 he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Research Institute for Agriculture in Braunschweig. In 1993, he earned his doctorate on the topic "Determination of the pollutant emissions of Agricultural tractors operating with rapeseed oil methyl ester in comparison to diesel fuel" at the TU Braunschweig. In 2001, he received the Venia Legendi for Ecological Chemistry at the TU Braunschweig and in 2014 the teaching authorization for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth.

In 1996, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Krahl began lecturing at the TU Braunschweig, before moving to a professorship at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences in 1997. There he took over the office of Vice President and Research and International Affairs from 2009 to 2014 and was also responsible for the Career Service.

In July 2016 Prof. Dr. Jürgen Krahl was elected as the new President of the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts and has held this office since 1 December 2016.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Krahl has been researching the subject of fuels and emissions since 1990. From 2008 to 2016 he was spokesman of the board of the Automotive Technology Transfer Center at Coburg University of Applied Sciences (TAC). He is a founding member of the Fuels Joint Research Group and Chairman of the UFOP Expert Commission on Biofuels and Renewable Resources.

In September 2021, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Krahl was elected for another six-year term starting in December 2022 at OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

To the publication directory of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Krahl