Scientific Director and CEO of FILK Freiberg Institute, Germany. Studied biology, process engineering and polymer chemistry. Experience in leather, collagen, gelatin and other structure proteins and biopolymers. Research field: Processing and chemistry of collagen and its derivatives for technical, medical, food and cosmetic uses.

Lecturer at Technical University of Freiberg, Technical University of Berlin (Germany) and the University of Arts, Bern (Switzerland).