Prof.dr.ir. André de Haan

Within the Chemical Engineering department André de Haan’s main responsibility comprises the product & process design education program at MSc and EngD level. This involves attracting and supervising individual design projects for EngD trainees, and teaching Product & Process Design to MSc students in Chemical Engineering.

His research activities focus on conceptual design and intensification of processes for circular and/or biobased production of chemical products and food ingredients.

Academic background

André de Haan was appointed as part-time full professor in Process Technology in 2014, which he combines with a position as principal technologist at COSUN Innovation since 2016.  After finalizing his PhD at Delft University of Technology in 1991 he worked in various positions at DSM. From 1999-2006 he held the chair Separation Technology at the University of Twente and from 2006-2010 the chair in Process Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven. In 2010 he joined Corbion-Purac as corporate scientist process technology in combination with a part-time position at the Technical University of Eindhoven till the end of 2013.

André de Haan is part of the Process Systems Engineering section (PSE).