Dr. Axel Drefahl
Angestellt, Research Chemist, Cycladex
Reno, Vereinigte Staaten
Werdegang
Berufserfahrung von Axel Drefahl
Bis heute 9 Jahre und 2 Monate, seit Mai 2015
Research Chemist
Cycladex
Process development in metal extraction and recycling by using novel lixiviant systems based on molecular recognition of metal species; especially gold and platinum-group elements
2001 - 2010
Senior research affiliate
Owens Technology, Inc.
Photovoltaic materials research: development of the cheminformatics infrastructure, clean-room operations, experimental design, cooperation with third-party laboratories, chemical purchasing, material safety implementations
1995 - 2000
Research assistant and project leader
Technical University of Freiberg, Germany
Leading a project unit for the theoretical understanding and simulation of surfactant-influenced particle aggregation. Teaching physical and computational chemistry.
Ausbildung von Axel Drefahl
1989 - 1995
Molecular modeling and chemical software development
Stanford University
Modeling and computer-aided estimation of physico-chemical properties for risk analysis, environmental fate and transport studies: molecular similarity versus molecular differences, automatic molecular difference recognition
1984 - 1988
Chemistry/Molecular Modeling
Technical University of Munich
Modeling of the environmental behavior of organic compounds based on quantitative structure/property relationships (QSPRs) and pattern recognition methods
1976 - 1984
Chemistry
Georg-August University of Göttingen
Physical chemistry: decay of organic peroxides at elevated temperatures and high pressure by applying infrared spectroscopy and kinetic modeling
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