Germany
With a strong academic background in the field of organic chemistry and biochemistry, educated at the universities of Tübingen, Melbourne and Oxford, I obtained my PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute in Dortmund. I started my professional carreer at BASF as laboratory manager in the small R&D site Trostberg (Bavaria), working on polymers for construction, oilfield and mining applications. Customer interaction and production support was part of my role in R&D. Moving along the lines of technology, in a role combining new business development (NBD) and a global responsibility for a biocatalytic, enzymatic production technology I moved to Ludwigshafen. After around two years I switched gears and joined the corporate center, for a role in strategic controlling and innovation management for BASF Group. Currently I am leading an expert group within our catalyst division supporting and developing our global catalyst production footprint.
Continuous Improvement in global Chemical Catalysts Operations
Natural product & enantioselective synthesis, enzyme assays, protein crystallography, small molecule microarrays, collaboration with RIKEN Institute, Tokyo
Diploma Thesis in natural product synthesis (University of Tübingen), biochemical assays and protein crystallography (University of Oxford)