Christian Gierend studied energy and environmental technology in mechanical engineering at Tier University of Applied Sciences in 1991 before moving to the power plant in Mannheim (GKM) and from there to the plant manufacturer Preussag-Noell in Würzburg. He received the Trier University of Applied Sciences sponsorship award for his work with expert systems. As a research assistant, he studied energy process engineering at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, worked at the Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Reiche Zeche and obtained his doctorate in engineering in 2000 with fuzzy control applications and artificial neural networks in the power plant and steel industry.

Prof. Gierend has been a lecturer at the Kraftwerkschule e.V. Essen since 1995 and also a lecturer at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg since 2000 with the rank of lieutenant colonel (2003). Until 2007, he completed almost 1,000 days of military training as a reservist in many different assignments. In 2007, he took over the professorship of the Montan Foundation at the htw saar in Saarbrücken. His teaching areas were thermodynamics, heat transfer and energy technology. Until his appointment to the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, he headed the Laboratory for Energy and Combustion Technology and the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Methods in Process Engineering. With more than thirty publications, he and his colleagues have implemented and published this topic on fuzzy control, neurofuzzy, digital twin and deep learning in many national and international research projects.

Prof. Christian Gierend is member of the scientific advisory board of the “Berlin Conference on Waste Management and Energy” (BKAWE) and on the scientific advisory board of the “German Association for Waste Management” (DGAW). He intends to use his almost 18 years of experience as a professor and scientist at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich to design interesting and practical lectures and to pave the way for students' future engineering careers through further industrial and research work.

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