Prof. Dr. Wilhelm A. Meulenberg is head of the department Gas Separation Membranes at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research IEK-1 at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany.

He graduated 1994 in two different studies - Metallurgy and Materials Technology and Mineralogy at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. There he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1999. Topic of his Ph.D. was the manufacturing characterization of ceramic shell moulds for investment casting at the Institute of Gesteinshüttenkunde of RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Since then, he has been working at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in various areas of materials development and component manufacturing for high temperature fuel cells and ceramic gas separation membranes.

From 1999 to 2001, he worked in the development of high temperature fuel cells at the Institute of Materials and Processing for Energy Applications IWV-1. From 2001 to 2003, he was personal scientific assistant to the Executive Board at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH.

In 2003, he started to build up the field of inorganic gas separations at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research IEK-1, where currently he is the head of the department. Recent research is focussed on the field of mixed ionic electronic conductors for gas separation and membrane reactors for the production of synthetic fuels and chemicals in membrane reactors. In addition, he works in the field of porous membranes for separation of hydrogen and CO2 from different gas mixtures. His Google Schoolar h-index in 2023 is 38 (i10=92) with more than 5700 citations.

In parallel, he had a position from 2010 - 2019 at the University of Queensland, Australia - an Adjunct Associate Professorship. Since 2016 until today, Wilhelm Meulenberg is Full Professor at the University of Twente, Netherlands for ionic conductors.