Prof. Dr. Florian Turk

Transforming matter with programmable energy | Trust infrastructure | Co-founder & CEO, MWS | COB, Novitalis AG

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Heat shaped the last industrial architecture. Programmable energy, Physical AI and trusted autonomous decision systems may help shape the next. My work focuses on how industry moves from applying energy as bulk heat to controlling how energy acts on matter — selectively and adaptively, with intelligence that compounds across every deployment. This is critical because much of the physical economy — materials, manufacturing, resource recovery, industrial processing — still operates with limited intelligence at the point where energy interacts with matter. Yet that is where industrial value is created and where most of the hard problems in decarbonisation, circularity, resource recovery and food processing actually live. I believe the next frontier in industrial transformation will emerge at the intersection of three things: 1. Programmable Energy — shifting from heat delivery to selective energy disposition control 2. Process Intelligence and Physical AI — adaptive systems that learn from every deployment and compound knowledge across a network of reactors 3. Trust Infrastructure — the foundational governance layer that makes autonomous industrial decision-making verifiable, auditable and deployable at scale At Microwave Solutions, this informs our work in programmable energy systems for transforming matter — from molecular recycling, to mineral liberation and food safety and pathogen inactivation. At Novitalis AG, it connects directly to the Trust Substrate: infrastructure designed to govern whether autonomous decisions in complex, high-consequence environments can be relied upon. If you are working on industrial decarbonisation, circular material flows, advanced recycling, sustainable mining, food safety, or the trust infrastructure that makes autonomous Physical AI systems deployable at scale — I would like to hear from you.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & CEO at Microwave Solutions GmbH
    Mar 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    Transforming matter with intelligent energy.

  • COB at Novitalis AG
    Aug 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Unleashing human potential through four pillars: Novi Search, Novi Skills, Novi Assess, and Novi Tech (HealthTech, EduTech)

  • Founder & MD at Greenmagination GmbH & Co. KG
    Nov 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

    FoodTech: non-thermal microbiological inactivation

  • Professor at Paderborn University
    Oct 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 9 mos

    growing humanity's most powerful lever to improve the world: leadership

  • Sandoz (3 yrs 11 mos)
    • Global Head Commercial and member of the Executive Committee, Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals
      Oct 2018 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Pioneering access to medicines through modern and relevant ways to engage with communities and all stakeholders - agile, digitally transformed, data and technologies enabled and customer experience focused with design thinking embedded.

    • Head Global Payor Marketing, Sales and Relations + mbr of the ExComm, Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals
      Aug 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos