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BioeconomyEuropean
Research and Innovation
Panel
Profiles of panel members
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Introduction
The European Bioeconomy Panel aims to support interactions among
different policy areas, sectors and stakeholders in the bioeconomy. It is an
important element of the European Commission's strategy on the
bioeconomy, announced in February 2012.
The panel has 30 members, who were carefully selected following an open
call for candidates. They have a variety of professional backgrounds, and represent the interests of different stakeholder groups: producers,
enterprises, and industry; the scientific and research community; public
administrations; and civil society. Panel members have been appointed to
serve an initial two year period from 2013 – 2015.
The European Commission defines the bioeconomy as: "the production of
renewable biological resources and their conversion into food, feed, bio-
based products and bioenergy". It includes agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and pulp and paper production, as well as parts of chemical,
biotechnological and energy industries.
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Dominique Barjolle Musard
Deputy Director, Research Institute of
Organic Farming (FiBL), Switzerland, and Lecturer/Researcher, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology
Dominique Barjolle Musard holds a PhD in agricultural economics
(AgroParisTech), and a post-graduate certificate in Economics (University of
Montpellier 1). Her area of expertise is the economics of quality and especially
how voluntary food sustainability standards act to adjust supply to demand in
the "quality" dimension and in particular its "sustainability" component.
She began her career as a researcher in Agricultural Economics at ETH Zurich
in Switzerland, where she developed research on food marketing and
consumers, especially in product quality and governance of agrifood chains.
She has initiated and participated in several research programs on innovation
in agriculture, and the interaction between research and adoption of innovations. She has participated in 10 European projects, one of them as a
coordinator (FOCUS BALKANS).
She led for 8 years the Swiss Center of agricultural extension and rural
development (AGRIDEA), which is active in the dissemination of knowledge
and is an actor in participatory research in agriculture and rural development.
As French and Swiss citizen, she has experience in many developing countries
(Balkans, North and sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia).
She is currently Deputy Director at the Institute of Organic Agriculture
Research (Switzerland) and lecturer at the ETH, and works closely with several
UN agencies (FAO, UNIDO, WIPO).
FiBL is a private foundation dedicated to the pursuit of excellence on
sustainability in agriculture and food. FiBL is active in Switzerland, Europe and
worldwide. A balance between various funding sources guarantees its
independence. A board of independent experts and stakeholders supports its
strategic planning and operational management.
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Catia Bastioli
CEO, Novamont
Born in in Foligno (Italy) in 1957, Catia Bastioli graduated in Pure Chemistry at the University of Perugia and attended the school of Business Administration
(“Alti Potenziali Montedison”) at the Bocconi University in Milan. Project Leader
from 1984 to 1988 at the Guido Donegani Institute for the Montedison
Strategic Composite Materials Project, and Project Manager for Biodegradable
Materials from Renewable Sources Project at the Ferruzzi Research and
Technology Center, Catia Bastioli entered Novamont in 1991 as R&D Director, becoming Technical Director in 1993, and then Managing Director in 1996.
Today she is Chief Executive Officer of Novamont.
Catia Bastioli has been member of EU working groups, such as the Committee
for “Renewable Raw Materials” of the Directorate General Industry and the
“European Climate Change Program” (ECCP), the Environment Advisory Group of the Directorate General Research. More recently she has closely followed
and significantly contributed to the development of the biobased industries PPP
from its outset, in February 2012, and since February 2013 she is also
member of the High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies of the EU.
Catia Bastioli is member of the Executive Committee of PlasticsEurope Italia and President of the KyotoClub Association. She has been member of
numerous Advisory Boards set up by Research Institutes and University spin-
offs, as well as member of the Strategic Advisory Commission for the Italian
National Research Council (CNR) and is member of the “Stati Generali della
Green Economy”, a committee recently launched by the Italian Ministry of the
Environment to spur sustainable growth in Italy. Since May 2013 Catia Bastioli is Board Member of Fondazione Cariplo.
Author of many papers and contributions on the subjects of renewable raw
materials, biorefineries, intellectual property, plastics and bioplastics in
general, Catia Bastioli is the inventor of more than 80 patents and patent
applications in the sectors of synthetic and natural polymers and related building blocks. Catia Bastioli is the editor of the “Handbook of Biodegradable
Polymers”, published by Rapra Technology Limited in 2005.
Catia Bastioli has won numerous international awards for her discoveries in
the field of starch-based biodegradable materials; most notably, in 2007 she
was nominated for the “European Inventor of the Year 2007” for her patents filed in the years 1992-2001.
In 2008 the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural and Physical Sciences of the
University of Genoa granted her an /Honoris Causa/ degree in Industrial
Chemistry.
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Stanislaw Bielecki
Professor, Institute of Technical Biochemistry,
Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Łódź University of Technology, Poland
Professor Stanislaw Bielecki is a full professor at the Institute of Technical
Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Łódź University of
Technology.
His main areas of research interest are: industrial biotechnology, applied biocatalysis, molecular engineering of enzymes and biopolymers, especially
bacterial bionanocellulose biosynthesis and its application in medicine and
industry. His scientific achievements consist of over 200 research papers,
more than 40 patents and patent applications.
Professor Bielecki has lectured extensively abroad and has been invited as a
visiting professor to universities in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, France, the USA and China.
Professor Bielecki created the Lodz school of industrial biotechnology, which
has grown strong and has been recognized both in Poland and Europe.
Professor Bielecki participates in and chairs many important scientific forums,
such as the Biotechnology Committee at the Presidium of Polish Academy of Sciences (Chairman), the Commission of Biotechnology at the branch of PAS in
Lodz (Chairman), Advisory Board in the Second Priority of the EU FP7 "Food,
Agriculture, Forestry and Biotechnology" of the European Commission, the
Councils of Science: PAS Centre for Medical Biology and Centre of Molecular
and Macromolecular Studies (member).
At present he holds the positions of Rector of the Łódz University of
Technology and Vice-President of the Conference of Rectors of Academic
Schools in Poland.
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Christine Bunthof
Senior Policy Officer and Contact Point for Joint
Programming and ERA-Net Actions,
Wageningen UR, Netherlands
Christine Bunthof (1971) has a degree in Molecular Sciences from Wageningen
University, holds a PhD in food microbiology and was a post-doc fellow at the
DLO institute Plant Research International.
Switching to research policy and programme management, she worked for six
years for the Dutch research council NWO managing European collaboration in
the area of plant genomics (ERA-NET Plant Genomics).
In March 2010 she joined the corporate staff of Wageningen UR, first tasked
as European subsidy advisor.
Since 2011 Dr Bunthof is senior policy officer and Wageningen UR contact
point for Joint Programming and ERA-Net Actions.
Currently, she leads the FP7 funded platform of bio-economy relevant ERA-
NETs (PLATFORM), is in charge of the mapping and foresight activities for
strategic collaboration within the Joint Programming Initiative on Food Security, Agriculture, and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI), and partner in a EU-
India collaboration on biomass and biowaste (SAHYOG).
In the course of her career, Christine has focused on leverage and inspiration
through networks that collaborate across silos and borders.
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Dorette Corbey
Chair of Dutch Committee on Sustainable
Biomass, Chair of Dutch Emissions Authority, and Director of Advisory
Council on Science, Technology and
Innovation
Dr Dorette Corbey (1957, Eindhoven -NL) was member of the European Parliament from 1999 until 2009, representing the Dutch Labour Party. She
joined the committee for Environment, Health and Food Safety, the Committee
for Industry Research and Energy and the Committee on Fisheries. Her focus
was on sustainable development, combining a sharp eye for environmental
challenges and social needs but also for economic realities and possibilities.
Currently Dorette Corbey is chairman of the advisory committee on sustainable biomass in the Netherlands. This committee advises the
government on issues related to the bio-economy. Its twenty members
represent NGO’s (environment, nature protection, social issues), business
(electricity, fuel, biofuel, food, chemical, agriculture) and science.
Dorette is also chairman of the Dutch Emissions Authority, responsible for implementation of the directive on emission trading. A third current position is
director of the advisory council on Science, Technology and Innovation.
Dorette Corbey studied at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in
Social Geography. She worked at the institute for international relations
‘Clingendael’ and the University of Leiden where she obtained her PhD. She also worked for the Dutch trade unions and was active in the field of European
Works Councils.
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Eva Cudlínová
Head of the Department of Structural Policy of the EU and Rural Development, Faculty of
Economics, University of South Bohemia, Czech
Republic
Eva Cudlínová, Associated Professor was educated at the University of Economics in Prague, as an economist.
She was employed at the Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, České
Budejovice, The Czech Academy of Sciences. Now she is working at the
University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Economics, Ceske Budejovice as a
head of department Structural policy of EU and rural development.
She is a lecturer of "Ecological and Environmental Economics". Among her
main fields of interest are problems of sustainable development, resource
management, economic methods of valuing nature and global nature problems
from an economic perspective.
From 2001 till now, she used to be coordinator of the Czech part of the EU Framework projects. The last one was the EU project within the Seventh
Framework with the acronym GILDED “focused” on Governance,
Infrastructure, Lifestyles Dynamics and Energy Demand: European Post-
Carbon Society.
She is author or co-author of about 60 articles in scientific international
journals and book chapters. The recent book is titled “Towards environmental society? Concepts, Policies, Outcomes”, authors- Miloslav Lapka, Eva
Cudlínová et al., Karolinum Press 2012, ISBN 978-80-246-2092-3.
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Emilia den Boer
Assistant Professor, Institute of Environment
Protection Engineering, Wrocław University of
Technology, Poland
Since 2008 assistant professor in the Institute of Environment Protection
Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, specialising in municipal waste
management, Emilia den Boer has for key interests and qualifications
(bio)waste treatment technology planning and assessment of waste management systems and waste technology, life cycle assessment,
environmental impact assessment, waste analyses, and environmental law and
policy.
She is involved in research projects, various teaching activities and provides
consultancy for municipalities and enterprises within waste sector. The main
technology interests are biowaste treatment, especially fermentation and mechanical-biological treatment of municipal waste, as well as energy and
products recovery from waste.
Since 2012 technology specialist in a regional municipal waste management
company, with a focus on dry anaerobic digestion.
Currently involved in two research projects: FP7 project ZeroWIN - Towards zero waste in industrial networks and the implementation phase of REMOWE -
Regional mobilizing of sustainable waste-to-energy production within Baltic
Sea Region Programme.
Mrs den Boer completed her PhD in the Institute of Water Supply and
Groundwater Protection, Wastewater Technology, Waste Management, Industrial Material Cycles, Environmental and Spatial Planning at Darmstadt
University of Technology, Germany, where she also worked for 5 years as a
researcher.
She is author and co-author of over 100 scientific and professions reports and
papers.
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Joanna Dupont-Inglis
Director, Industrial Biotechnology, EuropaBio
Joanna Dupont-Inglis first joined EuropaBio, the European Association of Bioindustries, in February 2009 and in April 2011 was appointed Director of
Industrial Biotechnology.
Her work within EuropaBio focuses on helping to develop a stable, long-term,
coherent regulatory framework for dynamic and innovative biobased industries
as a key enablers of the broader EU bioeconomy. In this context EuropaBio seeks a supportive and competitive EU Common Agricultural Policy, an
Innovation-driven research programme with a focus on Public Private
Partnerships and Industrial policy to help create market demand for smart and
sustainable biobased products and processes. Improving understanding of the
benefits and solutions provided by industrial biotech in tackling grand challenges such as resource efficiency, the need for food, feed and fuel,
climate change mitigation and sustainable economic recovery are also a key
focus.
Dupont-Inglis has an academic background in Environmental Science from the
Universities of Sussex, UK and Nantes, France.
Between 2000 and 2009 she worked as a consultant in public affairs and strategic communications, with a broad range of industries, trade associations
and NGOs in Brussels, in the fields of environment, energy, agriculture, health
and development.
She has also worked for two years for the European Commission’s DG
Environment.
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Johan Elvnert
Managing Director, European Forest-based
Sector Technology Platform (FTP)
Johan Elvnert is the Managing Director of the European Forest-based Sector
Technology Platform (FTP). His work in FTP focuses on creating the best
possible conditions for a dynamic European cooperation in science, technology
and innovation for the benefit of the people in the forest-based sector.
With a Master of Science in Molecular Biotechnology Engineering from Uppsala
University School of Engineering, Johan started his professional career as an
industry liaisons officer to international research facilities such as CERN, EMBL,
ESRF and ESA. His particular interest in how discoveries in the area of life
sciences and information technologies best could be translated into new business opportunities led him to establish a company in 2002 that developed
a new information-handling system for knowledge-intensive industries. This
information-handling system was inspired by the way that living cells are using
their static genetic information in order to adapt to a dynamic environment.
After selling his company in 2004, he came to Brussels as a Detached National Expert in the European Commission Directorate-General for Research. In
2008, he left the Commission but stayed in Brussels to act as advisor to
research-intensive organizations. He first joined FTP as the Coordinator of the
EU project Star-Colibri (Strategic Targets for 2020 - Collaboration Initiative on
Biorefineries) which would become the prelude to the negotiations on a
Biobased Industries PPP (Bridge 2020).
Johan Elvnert is also a family forest owner.
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Niels Gøtke
Head of Division, Danish Agency for
Sciences, Technology and Innovation
Niels Gøtke has an MSc in Economics from Aarhus University from 1981 and
an MSc in financial management and business administration from Copenhagen Business School in 1985.
He started his career as economist in the Danish Ministry of Agriculture in
1981 and he has a long experience in public administration and international
relations. From 1986-89 was posted at the Danish Mission to the OECD in Paris, dealing with agriculture, fisheries and environmental issues. From 1990-
1991 he was Deputy Director in the Danish potato starch company, KMC,
where he was responsible for strategy development and international matters.
From 1991-1998 he was head of the finance department in the Danish EU-
paying Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Niels Gøtke has profound knowledge about agriculture, fisheries, food policies
and bioeconomy issues. From 1998-2002 Niels Gøtke was heading the
structural policies department within the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and
Fisheries and from 2003-2011 he was in charge of research and innovation
within the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries. He has been responsible for the preparation of the two Danish biotechnology strategies. The first about
biotechnology and food production from 2004, and the second on
biotechnology, non-food and feed production from 2006.
Since 2011 Niels Gøtke has been responsible for food research, the bioeconomy and international affairs within the Ministry of Science, Innovation
and Higher Education, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
He is involved in a number of ERA-NETs and other international activities.
Niels Gøtke is Vice-Chair in the Governing Board of FACEE- JPI and he is
member of the SCAR Committee. From 2005-2011 Niels Gøtke was the Danish representative in the KBBE-NET. Niels Gøtke is also chairman of the Joint
Nordic Committee for Agricultural and Food Research which has taken the lead
for a new Nordic Bioeconomy Initiative.
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Richard Howell
Senior Inspector and Head of Research
and CODEX Division, Department of
Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland
Richard Howell is a Senior Inspector and Head of the Research & Codex
Division within the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine (DAFM).
As such he has overall responsibility for the operation of DAFM’s 3 competitive
research funding programmes – FIRM (food), Stimulus (agriculture), and
CoFoRD (forestry). He was intimately involved in Ireland’s National Research Prioritisation Exercise (NRPE) in 2011 and is now a member of the
Prioritisation Action Group (PAG) where he acts as “champion” for the 2 food
related prioritised areas.
Richard was the Irish Delegate to the Programme Committee for Theme 2 (Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology) of FP7 and will continue
to act in this capacity for the “Food Security …… etc.” challenge area of
Horizon 2020; is the alternate Irish delegate to the Standing Committee on
Agricultural Research (SCAR) and acts as it’s representative on the High Level
Steering Board of the recently formed European Innovation Partnership (EIP) “Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability”. He is the lead Irish member of
the Governing Board of FACCE, the JPI on “Agriculture, Food Security and
Climate Change”, and is the Irish representative on the Governing Council of
the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. He also heads
up the Irish delegation to annual sessions of the FAO/WHO derived Codex
Alimentarius Commission and chaired the Council Working Party on Codex during the recent Irish Presidency.
Richard has spent majority of his career with DAFM in Dublin although he
spent most of the 1990’s abroad on secondment, first to DG Agri of the EU
Commission and then as Agricultural Attaché in the Irish Embassy, London.
Richard has a primary degree in Agricultural Science from University College
Dublin and a Masters in Food Regulatory Affairs from the University of Ulster,
Northern Ireland.
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Courtney Hough
General Secretary, Federation of
European Aquaculture Producers
(FEAP)
Courtney Hough received a scientific education, in zoology and biochemistry,
in the UK.
After a short period in clinical research, he worked for Tate & Lyle’s Group
Research Division on new protein sweeteners, developing extraction and
analytical procedures. After examining the potential of micro-algae production at the University of Liege, he was responsible for developing a pilot farm for
warm water fish production, including the use of algae in feeds. This activity
led to developing commercial farms in Africa and the Caribbean and
international consultancy services for the development of commercial
aquaculture.
In the late 1980s, he worked with the Gabriel Group, based in Belgium,
overseeing technical and marketing services and developing fish farm projects
in Europe, Latin America and Africa.
Since 1993, he has been the General Secretary of the Federation of European
Aquaculture Producers (FEAP), which groups 28 National Aquaculture Associations, representing the FEAP in different European advisory
committees. FEAP became increasingly involved in European RTD actions,
principally coordination and support projects, organising focused dissemination
actions towards the sector.
In 2007, Courtney was closely involved in the creation of the European
Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATiP), which has 60 member organisations, becoming its Secretary in 2008. In completing its
Vision and Strategic Research Agenda through wide consultation, EATiP was
recently recognised as a European Technology Platform.
Courtney has also cooperated with several international organisations on
aquaculture issues, notably the FAO, OECD and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with a focus on governance, environmental
and development issues.
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Kjell Ivarsson
Vice-chair of the Working Party on
Research and Innovation, Copa-
Cogeca, and Federation of Swedish
Farmers
My name is Kjell Ivarsson and I am 55 years old. I have worked for the
Federation of Swedish Farmers and the Swedish Farmers´ Foundation for
Agricultural Research for almost ten years. My family has a farm in south-west
Sweden, where I spend a lot of my spare time.
Since taking a first degree in agronomy and a licentiate degree in plant nutrition and soil fertility I have worked in different areas. For nine years I
worked close to the field in the Swedish advisory service, followed by business
development, sustainable production, crop production and research &
development.
Important issues for me are to increase the share of the EU Research and Development budget that is spent on our sector and increase the status of the
sector. I want create more demand-driven Research and Development using a
priority list compiled in consultation with the stakeholders.
Also I want to increase and improve the interactions between scientists and
society and create a two-way communication between knowledge and
stakeholder involvement.
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Beate Kettlitz
Director for Food Safety, Science and R&D,
FoodDrinkEurope
After finishing her studies of food chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin,
in 1975, Beate Kettlitz worked at the Hygiene Inspection Services in Potsdam and was there in charge of foodstuffs.
These tasks mainly included operative services - such as control of food
producing facilities, stores, kitchens, producing meals for hospitals, schools
and other facilities, to check for good hygiene practices and to give advice.
After the successful achievement of a special professional certificate in the
field of hygiene practice in 1978, she continued her professional engagement in the Regional Hygiene Institute of Potsdam. She became responsible for the
control and professional advice for dairy products, dietetic products, baby food
and other foodstuffs as field and later department manager.
After her arrival in Brussels in 1991 she worked as an adviser on technical
regulatory aspects for the food industry.
As of May 1999, Beate Kettlitz started her professional carrier as a food policy
adviser at BEUC, which lasted until April 2005.
In April 2005 Beate Kettlitz jointed FoodDrinkEurope (former CIAA) as a
Director for Food Safety, Science and R&D.
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Hordur G. Kristinsson
Research Director, Matis (Iceland Food and
Biotech R&D), Reykjavik, Iceland
Dr. Hordur G. Kristinsson is the Research Director of Matis (Iceland Food and
Biotech R&D, Reykjavik, Iceland) and also is the Director of the Division of Biotechnology and Biomolecules.
In addition Dr. Kristinsson is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department
of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida and Guest
Professor the University of Iceland. Dr.Kristinsson was previously an Associate
Professor in Food Chemistry at the University of Florida.
Dr. Kristinsson obtained his PhD degree in Food Biochemistry at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst and MS degree in Fisheries/Food Science from
the University of Washington in Seattle. He combines practical experience of
working in the marine products industry with extensive commercial and
research expertise in the production of various products and ingredients.
He is the holder of five patents and has published over 75 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and books. He has led numerous research projects
connected to marine biotechnology, marine foods and bioactive ingredients,
funded by the governmental grants and industry in the USA, Europe and
Iceland, and currently manages several major national and international
research projects.
Dr. Kristinsson has been involved in several successful company start-ups in
marine bioprocessing, most recently the company Marinox he co-founded
which processes bioactive compounds from marine algae and consumer
products containing them.
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Sirpa Kurrpa
Research professor on sustainable
bioeconomy, MTT Agrifood Research Finland
Professor Sirpa Kurppa is a specialist in the ecology of food production
systems, including environmental impact (LCA) assessment in plant production
and animal husbandry, the food production chain and consumer habits.
She has wide-ranging international science experience accumulated over more
than 30 years and has provided expert input into EU rural foresight studies and into the work of the Committee for the Future of the Finnish Parliament,
the Finnish National Food Strategy and the Strategy for Sustainable
Consumption and Production. Recently she was a member of a group
preparing a proposal on green growth for the Finnish Parliament and
participated in the work for the Finnish strategy for bioeconomy.
She has extensive experience in leading research groups and a research unit
responsible for research on sustainable production and consumption, and
steering interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration among
researchers, enterprises and other stakeholders. With her colleagues, in and
outside MTT, she is working for ecodesign of food products and environmental
awareness of the food chain among stakeholders and consumers. She has worked in food education, with special focus on the importance of self-efficacy
in choices though a food system. Practical tools for sustainable food choice are
being developed in her projects.
With broad institutional collaboration, she is surveying food consumption
societal structures to establish appropriate steering mechanisms for sustainability and to design food services with regard to their equity aspect.
She has spent some time as a guest researcher in Scotland, the USA, Canada
and New Zealand.
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Carmen Millan Chacartegui
Project Promotion and Institutional Relations
Manager, Abengoa Bioenergía Nuevas Tecnologías, Spain
Carmen Millan Chacartegui is Director of Project Promotion and Institutional Relations in Abengoa Bioenergía Nuevas Tecnologías, the R&D company of
Abengoa Bioenergia. She is responsible for launching new projects in the field
of production of advanced bioethanol and other bioproducts, using both
biological and thermo-chemical processes; and to support the development of
new technologies in Abengoa Bioenergia.
She also represents the company in different European and Spanish
organisations. She is member of the European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative
(EIBI), member of the Board of Directors of the Biobased Industries
Consortium (BIC) aiming at the implementation of the Biobased Industries JTI,
also called Bridge; member of the Steering Committee of the Spanish Biomass
Technological Platform (Bioplat) and member of the Advisory Board of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA).
Carmen has a degree in Fundamental Physics and an advanced diploma in
Environmental Engineering. She attended the University of Seville (Spain) and
the Technical University of Munich (Germany).
Carmen started her professional career in research centers in Germany (Max Planck Institute and Walther-Meissner Institute in Garching). In 2002 she
joined Abengoa, where she has been occupying different positions related to
the promotion of research and development activities in the field of renewable
energy technologies, fundamentally in the production of advanced bioethanol
& biorefineries.
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Nathaniel Page
Director, Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania, UK / Romania
Nat Page studied Zoology at Oxford University (New College, 1972-75), and
then Chinese and Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
London. He entered the Foreign Office, and worked for 14 years as a diplomat, in various postings including Thailand and Romania, before studying
agriculture (1994-5) and returning to his original farming and nature
conservation interests.
Since 1996 he has been owner and manager of a 65 hectare livestock farm in
the west of England. In 2003 he helped to establish Fundatia ADEPT
Transilvania, which is dedicated to protecting Romania’s exceptional High Nature Value farmed landscapes, and the small-scale farming communities
that have created them.
He is particularly interested in the sustainability of traditional farmed
landscapes. He is involved in grass-roots projects centred on farm advisory
services. Fundatia ADEPT won the top EU prize for communicating the CAP to farmers, at the CAP@50 competition in Brussels, 2012.
He is also involved in policy development and advocacy at national level, in
Romania, and at EU level, based on the principle that by farming with nature
not against it, we can maintain genuine food security that is not reliant on
ever-increasing inputs, yielding ever-decreasing gains in output.
Many traditional agricultural practices are more efficient if inputs-against-
outputs are genuinely calculated, maintaining more vital society, greater
sustainability and long-term food security. The alternative is all too often that
we "break" natural systems of control, and subsequently devote large financial
resources to trying (often unsuccessfully) to repair them again.
The strategic use of Europe’s High Nature Value farmed landscapes, combining cutting-edge thinking and integrated management with traditional systems at
all stages of the food production and supply chain, is an important aspect of
bioeconomy and innovation.
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Electra Papadopoulou
Senior researcher on Bio-products, CHIMAR
Hellas S.A. Greece
Mrs. Electra Papadopoulou is a Chemist who lives and works in Greece. She
holds a BSc degree in Chemistry and an MSc degree in Materials Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece while she has also received an
MPhil degree in bio-based materials from Aston University, UK.
The last 13 years she works at CHIMAR HELLAS S.A., an adhesives research
institute, serving the wood-based panels industry.
Mrs. Papadopoulou is a Senior Researcher engaged in the development of adhesives and chemicals from renewable raw materials. Her current interests
are focused on the development of thermosetting bonding systems based on
lignin, tannin, and proteins.
She has worked for more than 6 years as a team member and coordinator of
the technical part of numerous national and EU funded research projects
relative with products from renewable resources. Her working tasks give her the opportunity to cooperate with scientists, institutes and industries in the
field of bio-products all over the world.
She is a co-inventor in patent on aminoplastic resins as well as an author and
co-author of scientific publications relative with urea-formaldehyde resins,
nano-materials and adhesives from renewable raw materials.
She is a member of three scientific networks (COST ACTIONS 1006, 1105 and
1205) relative to wood and biomaterials. She is a member of the Hellenic
Association of chemists while she was actively involved in the administration of
the Association of Chemists in the Northern Greece.
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Dr Jim Philp
Policy Analyst (Industrial
Biotechnology, Marine Biotechnology,
Environmental Biotechology and Synthetic Biology), OECD
Jim started his career working on microbiological aspects of the deep disposal
of high level radioactive waste, especially bio-corrosion. This work produced
an opportunity for cross-over into the oil and gas industry. He spent 4.25
years working for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia as an oilfield microbiologist,
investigating field problems related to bacterial contamination e.g. water desalination, refinery problems, seawater injection, biocide control of microbial
growth in large oilfield facilities. He returned to Edinburgh to an academic post
for 16 years, teaching and researching environmental and industrial
biotechnology. Whilst there, he became involved with various UK government
initiatives in biotechnology, such as Biotechnology Means Business, and BioWise. He was a coordinator of the LINK Bioremediation Programme, at the
academic-industrial interface. He returned to Saudi Aramco for a further 4.25
years to work on oilfield biotechnology.
He joined the OECD in 2011 with responsibilities in industrial and
environmental biotechnology, marine biotechnology, biomass sustainability and synthetic biology. All these policy activities have close links to the
bioeconomy e.g. the integration of biofuels and energy with other biobased
production, such as biobased chemicals and plastics, and how biotechnology
may improve the sustainability of biomass utilisation.
In 2013 he co-authored a series of seven short policy papers in Trends in
Biotechnology, mostly relating disparate aspects of industrial biotechnology to the bioeconomy. He has authored over 200 articles.
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Peter Pickel
Deputy Director and Manager External
Relations, John Deere GmbH & Co. KG
European Technology Innovation Center,
Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Pickel is employed at John Deere GmbH & Co. KG (JD)
which belongs to the John Deere group, the largest worldwide and European
manufacturer of agricultural equipment and one of the leading producers of
forestry and construction machinery. As the Deputy Director of the JD
European Technology Innovation Center (JD ETIC, Kaiserslautern, Germany), Prof. Dr. Pickel manages research and advanced technology. Within John
Deere Peter Pickel and his team lead all publicly funded R&D activities in EU
zone and external technology relationships.
Peter Pickel holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical
University of Berlin (1993). After different assignments in construction
(machinery) and railroad industry, in 2000 (till 2010) he became a full tenured professor for Agricultural Engineering, Communal Machinery and
Environmental Technologies at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
(Saxony Anhalt, Germany) where he also was the director of the Institute for
Agricultural Engineering and Land Use Management (2000 to 2006) and the
dean of the Agricultural Faculty (2003 to 2006). Peter Pickel is the Chair of the MANUFUTURE Sub-ETP Agricultural Engineering & Technologies and board
member of the German VDI Max-Eyth-Gesellschaft.
The focus of his research and development activities is on integrated
sustainable energy production and supply concepts for rural areas, including
the development of electrification concepts for mobile off-road machinery. Further Prof. Pickel is working in the field of automation and communication
technology for agricultural equipment.
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Christophe Rupp-Dahlem
President, Plant Based Chemistry Association
(ACDV), and Vice-President, Plant-based Chemistry, Roquettes Frères, France
Christophe Rupp-Dahlem graduated in chemical engineering at ENSC of Lille in 1983.
He started his career as Technical Manager for Henkel and after as Business
Manager for Klopman International.
In 1990 C. Rupp-Dahlem joined Roquette at its global headquarter in Lestrem,
France. His current role is to manage the innovative programs related to the
plant-based chemistry like the umbrella programs for bio based building blocks and for plant based resins.
Since May 2008, C. Rupp-Dahlem is President of the French Plant Based
Chemistry Association (50 industrial actors along the value chain). C. Rupp-
Dahlem is member of the Industrial Biotechnology Council of Europabio and is
vice president of the Bio Industry Consortium (BIC) for the Public-Private Partnership Biobased Industry.
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Peter Schintlmeister
Senior Technology Officer Life Sciences,
Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, Austria
Peter Schintlmeister completed his studies at the Technical University of Graz as a Chemical Engineer with emphasis on Biotechnology. After positions in
industry and non-profit-organisations he joined the Federal Ministry of
Economics and Labour in 2002, where he since is in charge of the area of Life
Sciences and Biotechnology. Amongst other duties he represents the ministry
in various groups and networks on national and international level.
Until early 2013 Peter held chairmanships of the ERA-NET EURO-TRANSBIO (FP7) and the European Commission's Advisory Group for the Lead Market
Initiative for Bio-Based Products and served as chair of the OECD's Task Force
of Industrial Biotechnology as well as vice-chair of the OECD's Working Party
on Biotechnology. At national level he has been appointed technical member of
Austria's Supreme Patent and Trademark Chamber.
In 2013 Peter is temporarily attached to the Austrian Embassy in Beijing,
China, where he serves as deputy head of the Science and Technology
Section.
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Doris Schnabel
Head of Unit Bioeconomy / Biotechnology, Ministry of Innovation, Science & Research
of the German State of North Rhine-
Westphalia - Düsseldorf, Germany
Doris Schnabel, PhD, Head of Unit Bioeconomy / Biotechnology, Ministry of
Innovation, Science & Research of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Düsseldorf, Germany
Since 2006 Doris Schnabel works within the ministry with special assignments
in cluster development and lead management elaborating and implementing a
bioeconomy strategy for NRW. In addition she was spokeswoman of the
Federal Council of Germany in the EU Programme Committee Health (2006-
2009).
Before that she was a project manager at the TechnologieZentrumDortmund
GmbH setting up a new technology centre at the interface of medicine,
chemistry and BioMEMS (2002 – 2006). Prior to this she was in charge of
regional cluster development [Head Regional Office Eastern Ruhr Area of Bio-
Gen-Tec-NRW e.V., Cologne (1999-2002); Chief Executive Officer of BioIndustry e.V., Bergkamen, Member of Managing Boards of cluster
initiatives: BioIndustry e.V. (2003-2006), LifeTechnologies Ruhr e.V. (2003-
2006)].
Doris Schnabel is a trained chemist (University of Bonn) with a special focus
on molecular biology research and medicine during her doctoral thesis (University of Bonn), post-doc (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg)
and working as a senior scientist (Institut für Molekularbiologische Diagnostik
GmbH, Bonn; University Hospital Bonn). She has sound experience in cross-
sectoral cluster development as well as technical and scientific steering of
founders and coaching entrepreneurs. Furthermore she has sound experience
in driving a public-private dialogue with stakeholders from traditional industries (e.g. chemistry, energy, steel) and key enabling technologies as
well as to convey public relations with different stakeholder groups. She was
responsible for performing the "Potential Analysis" on the Bioeconomy for the
German State of North Rhine-Westphalia during the last years and for the
recent elaboration of the cornerstones of the regional Bioeconomy Strategy of this German Land.
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Cristina L.M. Silva
Associate Professor, Portuguese Catholic
University – College of Biotechnology (ESB), Portugal
Associate Prof. at Portuguese Catholic University – College of Biotechnology
(ESB). She is Chem. Eng. and PhD in Biotechnology and Food Engineering,
and is involved in research on quality and safety of foods and the leader of the
laboratory LOPA. Her research interests are focused on: (i) design and
optimization of food process conditions; (ii) predictive microbiology as a tool to optimize food processes; (iii) evaluation of food quality changes due to
conventional and novel processing; (iv) evaluation of food quality and safety
changes during storage; (v) formulations of new food products and (vi) design
and optimization of ethylene oxide sterilization of medical devices.
Was coordinator of the networks ISEKI_Food 3 and ISEKI_Mundus 2
(http://www.iseki-food.eu), and FP7 KBBE project “Track_Fast - Training
Requirements and Careers for Knowledge-based Food Science and Technology
in Europe” (http://www.trackfast.eu), among other research and network
projects. She is also editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Food Studies (http://www.iseki-food-ejournal.com).
Past-president of ISEKI_ Food Association (http://www.iseki-food.net),
member of the executive committees of EFFoST – European Federation of
Food Science and Technology (http://www.effost.org/) and ISEKI_Food
Association, and member of the IUFoST Education Committee. She is currently responsible for the International Relations, coordinator of the 3rd cycles
degrees, and president of the pedagogic committee at ESB.
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Carmen Socaciu Full Professor, Head of Agrifood Chemistry-
Biochemistry Unit, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV),
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Carmen Socaciu, 59, Full Professor, Head of Agrifood Chemistry-Biochemistry
Unit, Fac. Food Science & Technology, Univ. Agricultural Sciences and
Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) Cluj-Napoca, Romania(RO). PhD in Chemistry (1986), Postdoc studies (<1998) at Univ. Bordeaux I, Bremen, Bern,
Liverpool. PhD supervisor- Biotechnology, 33 PhDs finalized.
International teaching experience in collaboration with more than 10 EU
universities. Research coordination of over 25 National Research projects and
RO responsible in over 15 international projects (FP5-FP7, COST, NATO, ERASMUS). Organizer of many international conferences (COST, IP-ERASMUS,
IUBMB, ICA-CASEE).
Research experience and competence in natural product chemistry, analytical
biochemistry, biorefinery (added value products from waste), food quality and
authenticity, Functional food and food additives. Scientific publications in peer reviewed journals: 315/69 in ISI journals) and 448 citations. Index Hirsch: 12.
Relevant publications: Socaciu C., Analysis of Chemical Food Safety, In: Safety
in the Agrifood chain, (eds. Luning et al.), Wageningen Academic Publ., 2006.
Socaciu C. (editor), Food Colorants: Chemical and Functional Properties, CRC
Press, NY, 2008. Socaciu C., Diehl H.A., Instruments to analyze food colors,
in: Handbook of Food Analysis Instruments, (ed. S.Otles), CRC Press, NY, 2009.
Synergistic activities: Vice-rector for Research & Innovation, USAMV Cluj-
Napoca, Assoc. Member of RO Academy ASAS (since 2010), Scientific Advisor
of RTD Center for Applied Biotechnologies, SC Proplanta Ltd. Cluj-Napoca.
Member of Research-Development and Innovation Council (CCCDI) at RO Ministry for National Education. EU Expert DG Research – Panel Agriculture-
Biotechnology for Impact assessment of FP projects (2011) and member of
Sherpa Group for EU Innovation Partnership "Agricultural Productivity and
Sustainability" at DG Agri. UN-FAO representative of RO in CFS Committee-
High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE)( since 2010, re-elected in 2013).
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Monika Sormann
Senior Policy Adviser, Department Economy,
Science and Innovation, Flemish Government, Belgium
Born in Leoben, Austria. I studied chemistry at the Technical University of Graz, with a specialization in biochemistry and biotechnology. My thesis work
was on poly hydroxy butyrate producing Alcaligenes euthrophus.
In 1980 I started a post graduate at the University of Ghent, Belgium, where I
worked on identification and sequencing of Ti plasmid hormone genes from
Agrobacterium tumefaciens, in the group of professors Marc Van Montagu en Jef Schell.
After my doctorate I carried out research in the field of molecular biology, and
genetic transformation of cereals, in cooperation with a Flemish company.
From 1997 on until present I have been working for the Flemish government
as a policy adviser for science and innovation policy in the field of biotechnology. I represented the government in many different committees on
regional, federal, European (Programme committees Health and KBBE) and
international level (OECD Task Force Industrial Biotechnology).
From 2006 to 2009 I was seconded to DG Research, directorate E (Food,
Agriculture and Biotechnologies) were I was active in the implementation of
FP7, and in policy work (KBBE-net).
After my return to the Flemish authority I coordinated some major
conferences under the Belgian EU Presidency one of which the KBBE
conference. Since then I have been advisor in the administration of the
ministers for economy and for innovation in the field of the bio-economy,
amongst others towards the design of an integrated Flemish bio-economy vision and strategy.
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Vjekoslav Tičina
Senior Scientist, Institute of
Oceanography and Fisheries, Croatia
Born on the July 08, 1967 in Split, Republic of Croatia. Upon completion of elementary and high school education in 1985, enrolled in the study of Biology
and Chemistry at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Natural Sciences
and Mathematics in Split. Graduated on 27 December 1989 (Title: Professor of
Biology and Chemistry (B.Sc. degree)). During 1990 and 1991 occasionally
worked in various elementary and high schools and in this way gained
experience in pedagogical and educational work.
On December 1991 I enrolled in the post-graduate study in Oceanology at the
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Zagreb, Croatia. Since May
1992, I have been employed at Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in
Split. Involved in the research of biology and fishery of bluefin (Master thesis:
“The morphological and nutrition characteristics and fishery of bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus L.) in the Adriatic Sea”) - academic title: M.Sc. in
Oceanology, and eventually made Ph.D. thesis in Biology (Theme: “Biology
and commercial importance of the sprat, Sprattus sprattus phalericus L. 1758,
in the Adriatic Sea”).
Member of the bluefin tuna Working Group of the International Commission for Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), and national representative in ICCAT
committee for research and statistics (SCRS: 2001-2008, 2010). National
representative in GFCM-SAC (2005, 2008-2011). Giving lessons in “Fisheries
acoustics” at Center for marine studies, University in Split. Leading scientist
for Croatian acoustic surveys within DCF (EU-MEDIAS).
Languages: Croatian (mother tongue); working knowledge of English, Italian, Serbian and Bosnian, and limited knowledge of Spanish.
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Sarunas Zableckis
Senior Policy Officer, European Anglers
Alliance. Formerly policy officer at the
World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)
European Policy Office
I got BA from Vilnius University (Lithuania) in 1999, and graduated with MSc
from the College of William and Mary (USA) in 2001. From 2001 until 2003 I was a consultant with the World Bank, UNEP, and UNDP in coastal and marine
management projects. From 2003 until 2005 I was an information officer in
the World Bank Energy and Water Department.
From 2005 to 2008 I worked as a scientific and technical officer at Joint
Research Center/European Commission.
Since February 2011 to July 2013 I was a policy officer at the World Wildlife
Fund for Nature (WWF) European Policy Office. Currently I am a senior policy
officer at the European Anglers Alliance.
I like fishing, photography and travel.
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Holger Zinke
Founder and CEO, BRAIN Biotechnology
Research Aktiengesellschaft, Germany
Holger Zinke (50) is a Molecular Biologist and Entrepreneur. In 1993 he
founded BRAIN Biotechnology Research Aktiengesellschaft and acts as Chief
Executive Officer since then. BRAIN is a technology company group with 120 employees and focused on white/industrial biotechnology and holds a leading
role in the area of the industrial use of natural microbial biodiversity with more
than 80 collaborations with industrial companies such as BASF, Celanese,
Ciba, Clariant, Genencor, RWE, Südzucker, Symrise among others. In 2012,
BRAIN announced two strategic alliances with more than 20 industrial and academic parties, as well as the largest private financing round in industrial
biotechnology. He received a number of Awards for his entrepreneurial efforts,
e.g. 2008 the Environmental Award by the German Environmental Foundation
DBU (together with Prof. Dr. E.-U. von Weizsäcker) as “Pioneer of sustainable
Economy”.
He authored scientific and political publications and participated as inventor in
international patents. He is member in a number of commissions and advisory
committees, e.g. the Councils of the Technical University Darmstadt and
University of Applied Sciences Mannheim.
Dr. Zinke is actively engaged at the Association of the German chemical
Industries (VCI), German Association of Biotechnology Industries (DIB) and DECHEMA. He was Cofounder and Member of the Board 1996 to 2004 of the
German Association of Biotechnology Companies (VBU). He is Cofounder of
the Biotechnology Association Germany “BIO-Deutschland” and Member of the
Advisory Board of the VBIO. He is Cofounder and deputy chairman of the
German Association of White Biotechnology Industries (IWBIO) and Member of the German governmental Bioeconomy Council “BioÖkonomieRat” since 2010
and chairing the working group on industrial competitiveness.
The European Bioeconomy Panel aims to support interactions among different policy areas, sectors and stakeholders in the bioeconomy. It is an important element of the European Commission’s strategy on the bioeconomy, announced in February 2012.
This publication compiles biographies of the 30 panel members, who were carefully selected following an open call for candidates.
They have been appointed to serve an initial two year period from 2013-2015.