DSM appoints Professor Bert Meijer as chairman of its Scientific Advisory Board
DSM announced the appointment of Professor E.W. (Bert) Meijer, of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, as chairman of its new Scientific Advisory Board. The creation of the advisory body is in line with DSM's Open Innovation policy and shall enable the company to more effectively draw on important developments in the external knowledge infrastructure. The Scientific Advisory Board will thus support DSM in the further development of its core competences. According to DSM, the other members of the advisory board, to be appointed in due course, will be internationally recognized leading experts in fields that are important to DSM, such as biotechnology, nutrition, material sciences, chemistry and process technology. Professor Meijer himself will bring to the advisory board his expertise in the areas of organic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry.
Bert Meijer (51) is Distinguished University Professor of Molecular Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his PhD in organic chemistry cum laude from the University of Groningen, also in the Netherlands. He has held various positions in both industry and academia. Having worked as a research scientist in molecular materials at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven from 1982 to 1989, he joined DSM Research as head of the "New Materials" department, a position he held until 1992, when he became Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2004 he was appointed to his current professorship. His other academic positions include Assistant Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands (since 2004) and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA (as of this year).
Professor Meijer has won several prestigious national and international awards. These include the Gold Medal of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society in 1993, the Spinoza Award of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in 2001 and, most recently, the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry in 2006.
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