Dr. Bart Haelterman graduated in Chemical Science in 1992 and obtained a PhD in Chemical Science at the University of Leuven in 1996. He worked for INEOS as an R&D responsible from 1996 till 2001 and subsequently was in charge of 3 batch and continuous world scale production units from 2001 till 2006. He joinedRead more
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Kim Ragaert is full professor at Maastricht University, holding the Chair of Circular Plastics. She obtained her PhD in polymer processing at Ghent University in 2011. A few years later, she began to develop her research in mechanical recycling of plastics via her tenure track and later tenure at the same university. She co-founded CAPTURE,Read more
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
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
Lucie Prins received her MSc in Chemical engineering in 2010 from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, including studies at University of Poitiers, France, and her Ph.D. in Polymer and Material Sciences in 2015 from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Professional interests include materials research of polymeric materials for targeted applications in polymer coatings andRead 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