Innovative polymer materials for a sustainable future

Dr. Jens Thies

Senior Science Fellow DSM Biomedical

“Bringing biomaterial based products to market: The friction between regulations and innovation”

Jens Thies received his PhD from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh in 1998. Subsequently he undertook post-doctoral positions at DSM Research (Netherlands) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He joined DSM Performance Materials Research in 2001 and initiated the Functional Coating Innovation platform known today as DSM’s Advanced Solar Business Unit.

Jens is an inventor of more than 40 patent families and has successfully lead products development in several DSM businesses including: Functional Materials, Solar, Medical Coatings and Drug Delivery. He is currently the global lead scientist within DSM Biomedical as Senior Science Fellow. Jens also holds an Executive Masters in Business Innovation from TIAS Business School (2010)

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Prof. Subi Jacob George

Professor and Chair, New Chemistry Unit.
Also Faculty at School of Advanced Materials (SAMat)
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research (JNCASR), Bangalore.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Wessling

Head of the Chair of Chemical Process Engineering (AVT.CVT).
The core research field of the chair focuses on the development and
application of membrane technology for current global challenges,
particularly hybrid processes and electrochemical membrane reactors.

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Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Stamatialis

Full Professor, (Bio)artificial organs, Department
of Biomaterials Science and Technology, TechMed
institute – Faculty of Science and Technology,
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Dr.-Ing. Gerd Esser

Along with an awesome team of experienced innovation managers,
highly motivated digital developers and specialized experts at inpro,
I try to contribute in making industrial engineering and production
processes better and more efficient.