Presentation Title: Ongoing Efforts and Challenges in Achieving Carbon-neutral Steel Production

Prof. Johannes Schenk      
Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy, Montanuniversität Leoben and K1-MET GmbH, Leoben, Austria

Johannes Schenk started his professional career in 1990 at Voestalpine Industrieanlagenbau (now Primetals Technologies Austria). He worked as a process and research engineer for ironmaking technologies such as MIDREX, COREX, and FINMET. As general manager and vice president of R&D, he was responsible for developing the FINEX process between 1992 and 2007. 

Since 2008, he has been a full professor for the Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy at the Montanuniversität Leoben. His research focus at the university is on the primary technology for steel production, i.e., ironmaking and crude steel production. The current topics in the ongoing research projects are related to CO2 lean steel production and circular economy. He was the Chief Scientific Officer of the Austrian metallurgical competence center K1-MET GmbH from 2015 to 2023. 

Johannes Schenk has published over 180 papers in journals and conference proceedings and is the inventor and co-inventor of more than 30 patent families.