11 students of a third semester chemistry class of Berlin’s Schiller-Gymnasium visited our department today, 2nd of December, 2019. They had extensive discussions with our PhD students on our mini-plants implementing heretogeneous and homogenous reactions, on the career of chemical engineers, and study opportunities at TU Berlin.

We are proud to announce, that an image from Johannes Sacher's recent publication on the Development of a mesoscale model for the gas phase fluid dynamics in structured packings based on fundamental experiments and CFD investigations was chosen for the issue cover page of Chemical Engineering Research and Design Volume 147 [4].

On the 18th of November 2019 Dr.-Ing. Viktoria Kapoustina successfully defended her doctoral thesis. The d|b|t|a sincerely congratulates and wishes all the best for her future.

On the 25th of October 2019 the 2nd d|b|t|a Women in Chemical Engineering Day took place. More than 20 students registered for the event. Female research assistants from d|b|t|a and from other departments gave insights into their work, as well as alumnae and guests from industry. A highlight was the interactive workshop led by the coach Vera Strauch. We finished the day with a dinner together and had very open talks until the late evening. Thank you for your participation and feedback - we hope to see you again at d|b|t|a.

During the CAPE-OPEN 2019 Annual Meeting [8] David Krone, Erik Esche and our former coworker Gregor Tolksdorf received the CAPE-OPEN 2018 Award. It was awarded to our group for the past and still ongoing research around CAPE-OPEN. In addition, David Krone gave a talk about his research on Mixed-Integer Optimization in GAMS using CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics via MOSAICmodeling and COBIA for Conceptual Design [9].

On the 30th of September 2019 Dr.-Ing. Gregor Tolksdorf successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Automatised Implementation of CAPE-OPEN Interfaces: A Workflow for Equation-Based Flowsheet Modelling. The d|b|t|a sincerely congratulates and wishes all the best for his future.