Förderver­ein Indus­tri­elle Bio­tech­no­lo­gie Bay­ern e.V.

Dr. von Au stud­ied tex­tiles and syn­thet­ic chem­istry at the Tech­nic­al Col­lege Reut­lingen and chem­istry at the Uni­ver­sity of Tübin­gen, where he fin­ished his doc­tor­ate in 1980. In the fol­low­ing, he assumed diverse glob­al pos­i­tions with­in the Wack­er-Chemie AG (Burghausen, Munich, USA, Brazil). Before leav­ing the com­pany in 2001, Dr. von Au was Head of the divi­sion Poly­mers, Spe­cialty Chem­istry and Bio­chem­istry as well as CEO of Wack­er Poly­mer GmbH. In 2001, he became pres­id­ent and CEO of Süd-Chemie Inc., Louis­ville, USA. Three years later, he took over the pos­i­tion of Süd-Chemie AG’s CEO in Munich until March 31, 2012. In 2012, Dr. von Au became Vice Pres­id­ent of the Board of Dir­ect­ors at Clari­ant AG. Since April 1, 2021, he holds the pres­id­ency of Clariant’s Board of Dir­ect­ors. In addi­tion, he assumes pos­i­tions as chair­man of Advis­ory and Super­vis­ory Boards in diverse fam­ily and private equity owned corporations. 

Prof. Daniel stud­ied nutri­tion­al sci­ences at Jus­tus Liebig Uni­ver­sity in Giessen. She received her doc­tor­ate in 1982 and qual­i­fied as a lec­turer in Bio­chem­istry of Human Nutri­tion in 1989. She has worked at the Uni­ver­sity of Glas­gow and spent three years at the School of Medi­cine in Pitt­s­burgh. She was appoin­ted a full pro­fess­or at the Uni­ver­sity of Giessen in 1992. Since 1998, she has held the Chair of Nutri­tion Physiology at TUM. Prof. Daniel is a mem­ber of the Ger­man Academy of Sci­ences (Leo­pold­ina), vari­ous advis­ory bod­ies, super­vis­ory boards and associations.

Prof. Daniel researches the basic prin­ciples of nutri­ent trans­port in mam­mals at genet­ic, struc­tur­al and func­tion­al levels. She also stud­ies the molecu­lar basis of the adapt­a­tion of meta­bol­ic pro­cesses to changes in the intake of nutri­ents and non-nutrit­ive ingredi­ents of food as well as age­ing processes.

Fol­low­ing his stud­ies in phys­ics and bio­phys­ics at TU Munich, Dr. Heum­ann became asso­ci­ate pro­fess­or (i. R.) at LMU Munich’s Fac­ulty of Chem­istry and Phar­macy. For many years, he was fel­low at Max-Planck-Insti­tute for Bio­chem­istry and stud­ied bio­lo­gic­al struc­tures through neut­ron dif­frac­tion in the depart­ment of Prof. Zil­lig. In 1998, Dr. Heum­ann developed a spe­cial meth­od to mark bio­mass in stable iso­topes and foun­ded Sil­antes GmbH, a spin-off by Max-Planck-Institute. 

Dr. Heum­ann was the association’s chair­man from 2017 to 2019 and guided the asso­ci­ation through an extraordin­ary time. 

Prof. Liebl stud­ied bio­logy with a major in micro­bi­o­logy at TU Munich and did his doc­tor­ate on the secre­tion of lipase in sta­phyl­o­cocci in 1986. Thanks to a DFG research schol­ar­ship, he joined the pres­ti­gi­ous Mas­sachu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­no­logy. Fol­low­ing his return to TU Munich, he qual­i­fied as a pro­fess­or in 1997 and accep­ted a chair at Georg-August-Uni­ver­sity in Göt­tin­gen. From 1997 to 2008, he held the chair of Gen­om­ic and Applied Micro­bi­o­logy. In addi­tion, he was act­ive in the university’s self-admin­is­tra­tion and was Dean of the Bio­lo­gic­al Fac­ulty (2002−2003) and mem­ber of the sen­ate (2007−2008). Prof. Liebl declined a call to TU Graz in 2003, but joined TU Munich again as full pro­fess­or of micro­bi­o­logy in 2008. He remained act­ive as mem­ber of the faculty’s coun­cil and Dean of Stud­ies for Biosciences. 

From 2017 to 2021, he belonged to the association’s Board of Dir­ect­ors of Förderver­ein Indus­tri­elle Bio­tech­no­lo­gie Bay­ern e.V. After­wards, he became an Hon­or­ary Mem­ber of the association. 

Chris­ti­an Pater­mann is a law­yer. He stud­ied in Ger­many, Switzer­land and Spain and hold vari­ous pos­i­tions in the fed­er­al civil ser­vice (Fed­er­al Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Research, For­eign Office, Ambassy Wash­ing­ton, among oth­ers). He was a state secretary’s per­son­al advisor in the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Research and later Head of the Exec­ut­ive Man­age­ment, Press Officer of the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­is­ter Prof. Riesen­huber as well as Head of the Sec­tion. Since 1996, he was Dir­ect­or of the European Com­mis­sion in Brus­sels, ini­tially respons­ible for Envir­on­ment and Sus­tain­ab­il­ity in the Gen­er­al Dir­ect­or­ate Research fol­lowed by Agri­cul­ture, Forestry, Food and Bio­tech­no­logy. In addi­tion, Chris­ti­an Pater­mann led the devel­op­ment of a European Bioeconomy. 

He retired in 2007 but still assumes many hon­or­ary posts and advis­ory pos­i­tions. Among oth­ers, he was mem­ber of the inaug­ur­al Ger­man Bioeconomy Coun­cil, mem­ber of the Swiss Agri­cul­tur­al Research Coun­cil, Hon­or­ary Doc­tor of the Uni­ver­sity of Bonn, mem­ber of the world’s old­est Research Academy of the Life Sci­ences, Geor­go­fili Academy Florence. As of late, Chris­ti­an Pater­mann is Hon­or­ary Mem­ber of the Förderver­ein Indus­tri­elle Bio­tech­no­lo­gie Bay­ern e.V.