Professor Markus Kraft is a Professorial Fellow of Churchill College and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Diplom in Technomathematik from the University of Kaiserslautern (1992) and a doctorate in Technical Chemistry from the same institution (1997), and was awarded a ScD by Cambridge in 2012.
His research spans the computational modelling and optimisation of particle formation processes and combustion synthesis of organic and inorganic nanoparticles, with applications in the automotive, power, and chemical industries. A more recent focus is The World Avatar, a project developing a universal knowledge representation that uses semantic AI and linked data to enable interoperability across heterogeneous systems and domains.
From 2013 to 2025 he served as the founding Director of the Singapore-Cambridge CARES Research Centre.
Professor Kraft is also Director of Computational Modelling Cambridge Limited (CMCL), a technology company specialising in semantic AI, interoperability, and digitalisation, and of its German subsidiary, Computational Modelling Pirmasens GmbH (CMPG).