Dr. Kristin Hecht is a research group leader with research interests in mass transfer, chemical reactions, and multiphase flow. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University (USA), her M.S. from the University of Utah (USA), and defended her Ph.D. at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). During a Postdoc at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany, she was surprised at how much time she spent on safety issues as an engineering. Following her Postdoc, she joined Prof. Krause’s Institute of Apparatus and Environmental Technology at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany as a research group leader. Together they developed an international master program in Process Safety and Environmental Engineering to close the gap between process engineering and safety.