Let there be light: Quantitative imaging of nanoscale dynamics in polymer materials About Hanne van der Kooij Hanne van der Kooij is currently a Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter of Wageningen University. Her research revolves around the literal and figurative illumination of nanomechanical patterns in soft and (inter)activeRead more
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Thorsten Felder is leading Momentive’s global “Technology Intelligence and Scouting” group as well as the “Corporate R&D Coatings” team. He has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University Bonn, Germany and did postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Dr. Felder has more than 10 years experience in the development ofRead more
Dr. Haleema A. Alamri is an R&D program leader at Saudi Aramco, working on smart technologies for polymeric materials. She holds a master degree in chemistry and nanoscience from University of Waterloo, Canada, and a PhD in polymer science from KAUST, Saudi. She did her postdoctoral work at MIT, chemistry department and her work were mainly focused on the developmentsRead more
Christoph Sievering was educated in mechanical/process engineering at University of Essen, Germany. His studies were finalized with a master degree in 1989. He was gaining first professional experience as an engineer with a chocolate company at Mülheim, Germany, and 3 years later submitting his PhD paper on rheology of gel materials. In early 1993, heRead more
Digital and green transformation of industrial polymer value chains About Dr.-Ing. Philippe Dumazet I spent most of my international career within the automotive industry moving all along the value chain. I started indeed at the OEM (PSA) and moved then to the Tier (FAURECIA in France and in Germany) before joining SABIC (Netherlands)Read more
The influence of new mobility trends on elastomers About Marjan Hemstede Mrs. Marjan Hemstede – van Urk studied Physics & Astronomy (drs.) at Utrecht University (2006) and got an Executive MBA at Nyenrode Business University (2012). Furthermore she completed the Weiterbildungsstudium Kautschuktechnologie (rubbertechnology) at the Leibniz University Hannover and German Institute for Rubber TechnologyRead more
Thermoplastic Composites – Towards More Sustainable Aviation About Arnt Offringa Arnt studied aerospace engineering at the University of Delft. He started his career in 1985 as a design engineer at Fokker Aircraft. In 1989 he joined Fokker Special Products and started a market oriented thermoplastics R&D effort. In 2003 he became Director R&D ofRead more
Circular Design of Medical Devices About Jesper Bøgelund Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 97 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat other serious chronic diseases: haemophilia, growth disorders and obesity. Our key purposeRead more
About Paul Deeben Paul Deeben has over 25 years of experience in material and process development for the electronics industry. In the Eindhoven based Eurofins Materials Science lab I work with a team of experienced material specialists and analysts. Our passion is to help our customers solving their material and product related problems. With anRead more
reLFT: a sustainable approach to upcycle thermoplastic composite waste About Dr. Marc Huisman Dr. Marc Huisman is Program Manager at Brightlands Materials Center. He started his career at the Institute for Composite Materials in Kaiserlautern, Germany, with research and development in the field of crashworthiness of thermoplastic composites. Then, he worked 17 years atRead more
