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ADVISORY BOARD

The Advisory Board of Solvent Innovation supports the company with its great business and scientific experiences including their extensive network of international industrial and academic contacts. Scientific Supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid, as one of the world leading academic experts in the field of ionic liquids, was the co-founders of Solvent Innovation and is still related to the management very closely.   

born in 1970, finished his studies of chemistry summa cum laude in 1995. He acquired his PhD with Prof. Keim on the topic of applying ionic liquids in an industrial process. After a period of post-doc research in the BP-Amoco Chemicals laboratories at Sunbury/UK he worked as an assistant professor at the Institute of Technical and macro-molecular chemistry of the RWTH Aachen from 1998 to 2003. In October 2003 he became full professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg where he heads the chair of Chemical Reaction Engineering (www.crt.cbi.uni-erlangen.de) He
(co-)authored 55 publications and 21 patents.

His scientific achievements have been awarded with numerous prices, including the "Haltermann Innovationspreis 2000", the "Carl-Zerbe-Preis" of DGMK (2000) and the "DECHEMA Price of the Max-Buchner-Forschungsstiftung" (2000). Today Wasserscheid and his group are considered to be among the world-leading experts in the field of ionic liquid development and their application in catalysis.

used to lead the basis development team of the Shell Development Company, Emeryville CA. In 1973 he became ordinary professor and director of the Institute of Technical and Petrol chemistry of the RWTH Aachen, a position he retired from in 2000. Prof. Keim (co-)authored 180 publications, 40 patents and two books. Until recently he was a member of the supervisory board of the Degussa AG. Prof. Keim used to be vice-chairman of the board of DECHEMA, chairman of the board of DGMK and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Honorary professorships of the universities of Dalian and Hangshou (both China) and an honorary doctorate of the university of Lille (France) document his international standing in the scientific society.

Solvent Innovation takes great advantage of his network of international industrial and academic contacts and his lifetime experience in technology development.

Prof. Dr. Klaus Kühlein

acquired his PhD at the Justus Liebig Uiversität Gießen. After a one-year post-doc research he joined the Hoechst AG in 1967. In 1990 he was promoted to be a director at Hoechst and in 1994 he became a member of Hoechst's central research unit's management committee. Moreover, he is member of numerous committees such as the "Zentrum für Information", Berlin and the "Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft". Next to the Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft he was awarded several prices at Hoechst for outstanding research. Prof. Kühlein is honorary professor of the University of Göttingen.

Solvent Innovation profits from Prof. Kühlein's advice and support based on his 30 years of industry experience particularly in the area of bio-technology and life science.

Prof. Dr. Herbert Hugl

born in 1945, acquired his Ph. D. at the University of Vienna in 1973. He joined the Bayer AG in the same year starting his career with the development of new dyes. Professor Dr. Hugl subsequently held various senior positions at the Bayer AG and has been acting as Research Director in the company’s Central Research Department since 1997.
In the last years of his career he was responsible for the Process Development at Bayer Chemicals, later Lanxess AG.
Professor Hugl is currently honorary professor of the RWTH Aachen and evaluator for the German Ministry of Research and Education.

Solvent Innovation will profit from Professor Hugl’s valuable insight into the chemical industry based on more than 30 years of industry experience and his international network of industrial and academic contacts.

Prof. Dr. Udo Kragl

finished his studies of chemistry at Bonn and and at the Institute for bio technology at the Research Center in Jülich with Prof. Wandrey where he completed his PhD magna cum laude. After six months of research with Ciba Geigy, Japan, he finished his habilitation in 1998. That year he became ordinary professor for technical chemistry at the University of Rostock. He (co-) authored 82 publications and 12 patents.

Prof. Kragl, being one of the world's leading experts in bio processing technologies, supports Solvent Innovation through his extensive know-how and his excellent contacts to the bio technology and life science industry.

Prof. Dr. Walter Leitner

born in 1963, finished his PhD in Regensburg and spend a one-year post-doc in Dyson Perrins laboratory, Oxford. After a year as Liebig Scholar in Regensburg he was part of the Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe for CO 2 -Chemie, Jena, where he finished his habilitation in 1995. From 1995 -2002 he lead a researchgroup at the Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung, Mühlheim /Ruhr and lectured at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. In 1998 he became supervisor of the central high pressure and large scale synthesis facilities of the MPI für Kohlenforschung (Technical Laboratories). From April 2000- February 2002 he was acting chair of the "Lehrstuhl for Chemie and Petrochemie" at he RWTH Aachen.

In 2002 he became ordinary professor for Technical Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen (successor to Prof. Keim) and since 2003 he is an external scientific member of the Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung.

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