Johannes L. Schenk

• Johannes.Schenk@unileoben.ac.at

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Profile

• 2015 – present

  Chief Scientific Officer, K1-MET GmbH, Competence Center for Excellent Technologies in Advanced Metallurgical and Environmental Process Development

• 2008 – present

  Full Professor, Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy and Head of Department of Metallurgy, Montanuniversität Leoben

• 2004 – 2008

  Project Manager for the First Commercial FINEX Plant (FINEX 1.5M), Korea

• 1993 – 2003

  Head of R&D for Joint FINEX Technology Development, Siemens VAI and POSCO

• 1993 – 2008

  General Manager and Vice President for Research and Development of New Ironmaking Technologies (FINEX, COREX, FINMET)

• 1990 – 1993

  Process Engineer for Direct and Smelting Reduction Processes (MIDREX, COREX)

• 1990 – 2008

  Employee, Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GmbH, Linz, Austria (formerly VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagenbau, now Primetals Technologies GmbH)

• 1988 – 1990

  Assistant Professor, Graz University of Technology

Education

• 1985 – 1989

  Doctoral Thesis, Graz University of Technology

• 1979 – 1985

  Study of Process Engineering, Graz University of Technolog

Research Field

• Technologies for sustainable iron and steel production

• Use of hydrogen for direct reduction technologies

• Increase of scrap rate in crude steel production
• Recycling of steel making by-products
• Alternative electric smelting furnaces
• Hydrogen plasma smelting reduction