Board of Directors
Dr. Christian May (male) studied Physical Metallurgy at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and received his PhD in 1999. From 1997 he was with a vacuum coating system supplier as project manager dealing with large area thin film deposition. Since 2003 he is with Fraunhofer. Beside several management positions his development work was and is focused on technologies, processes and applications for large area devices with organic semiconductors, especially flexible OLED lighting, organic and perovskite solar cells as well as biodegradable electronics in sheet-to-sheet and roll-to-roll technology.
Currently he acts as Manager Sustainable Technologies for Energy and Electronics and Chief Strategy Officer at Fraunhofer FEP – the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology. Besides being active in numerous projects with industry partners he and his team are active within several national and European funded projects like Pi-scale, SmartEEs and SmartEEs2, PhotonHub Europe and PEARL.
Thomas Kolbusch is Vice President of Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, an equipment manufacturing company for coating, printing and laminating solutions located in Dormagen, Germany. He is member of the board of the OE-A (Organic Electronic Association) in Germany, a global association for printed electronics.
He serves in the advisory board of Fraunhofer ITA institute.
He served as member of the board of COPT.NRW, a local association in Germany, as well as exhibition chair of the LOPEC in Munich for five years.
Thomas is active in the field of fuel cells, batteries, printed electronics, photovoltaics and medical applications. He organizes the international Coatema Coating Symposium for over 19 years and represents Coatema in a number of public funded German and European projects.
Thomas Kolbusch studied Business Economics at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and got his degree as business economist in 1997. He started his career at 3M, Germany. Since 1999 he is working for Coatema Coating Machinery in different positions.
Professor Lorenzo Pastrana is currently Chair of the Research Office (Scientific Directorate) and Group Leader of the Food Processing Group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL). He joined the INL as Head of the Life Sciences Department in 2015. He is also a Professor of Food Science at the University of Vigo and was visiting Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) and the Universidades Federal Rural de Pernambuco and Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil). He was the Director of the Centre of Research Transference and Innovation (CITI) and Head of the Knowledge Transfer Office (2009-2010) at the University of Vigo. He founded the Galician Agri-Food Technology Platform (2006). Currently, he takes part in the scientific board of the Portugal Foods innovation cluster and is President of the European Sustainable Nanotechnology Solutions Association. His research is marked-oriented with a multidisciplinary approach integrating methods and concepts of biotechnology and nanotechnology with applications in food micro and nanostructures, encapsulation technologies for food personalization and active and intelligent food packaging.
Sandrine Lebigre is R&D Deputy Director at IPC, the French technical center for plastics and composites. With more than 12 years of experience in R&D collaborative projects, she is in charge of the setting-up and management of R&D programmes at IPC. She manages a team dealing with the identification of R&D and innovation assets in order to position them towards existing funding schemes, the definition of projects’ concepts, objectives, impacts and risk assessment. In addition, she is in charge of the coordination of national and European projects: follow-up of the overall progress of the project, management of intellectual property and dissemination of project results. Since 2017, she has been actively involved in the setting-up and management of various European Open Innovation Test Beds (OASIS, FlexFunction2Sustain and InnPressMe). She has been in charge of the definition of these OITB concepts and their Single Entry Points, the communication towards industries in order to promote the OITBs’ services and the setting-up of the associated legal structures.
Robert Harrison is a founding partner of SONNENBERG HARRISON. Robert Harrison has been working in the field of intellectual property since 1990. He is a registered German, French and European patent and trademark attorney. His work focuses on the fields of semiconductors, chemical engineering, computer science, photonics, telecommunications, microtechnology and biophysics.