Prof. Röder and his team focus on chemical process development in the field of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. In the laboratory, both flow-chemistry and batch processes are developed. For this purpose, micro reactors, laboratory automation and online analytics, such as ATR-FTIR, NIR and Raman, are used. The evaluation of the online analytics is performed with chemometric methods (self modeling curve resolution and self-optimizing systems). The microreactors used are designed and built based on spatially resolved simulations (computational fluid dynamics). High pressure hydrogenations up to 300 bar can be carried out in special facilities. A major focus is set on scalability and transferability of all developed processes to production environments. This scale-up is simulated and planned based on process models.

Furthermore, numerical flow simulation is used to further improve existing production processes in cooperation with industrial partners. The research group currently consists of three doctoral students.