During her PhD project, Loes developed a point-of-care semen analyser system that measured the concentration and motility of spermatozoa in human semen. After 4 years, she successfully defended this work and its impact has been recognized by the Simon Stevin Leerling award (2011), Simon Stevin Gezel award (2012), and enormous media exposure. After a postdoc visit at KTH in Sweden, she obtained a Veni grant to develop new techniques to assess and select spermatozoa for assisted reproductive technologies. In 2014 she started as assistant professor and became full professor in 2021.

After a position at Pfizer (Sandwich, UK) and Specs Compound Handling (Delft, NL) Marcel went to work for the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) as the Research Lead for Fingerprint Research in 2007. From 2015 I have been a part-time Associate Professor at the Delft University of Technology (TUDelft).
His experience in research started at the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) with a R&D traineeship as a part his BSc-studies, under the supervision of prof. P. J. Kocienski. After finishing the BSc-degree I took up a PhD position at the University of Leeds, UK, again under the supervision of prof. Kocienski.

Gert-Jan (1963) has a background in Polyolefin catalysis (DSM 1993-2000; now Sabic) and has been Professor of Polymer Catalysis at Eindhoven University of Technology (1999-2006). He joined Avantium in 2000 and as CTO he initiated the YXY technology, which includes FDCA from C6 sugars and 100% bio-based PEF polyester for bottles, fibers and film. In addition, Gruter is involved in the development of the “DAWN Biorefinery Technology”, the “RAY bio-MEG Technology” and the “Volta Technology” for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to polyester monomers such as oxalic acid and glycolic acid. Gert-Jan is inventor on more than 100 PCT patents and author of more than 50 scientific publications and book chapters; he was elected “2014 European CTO of the year” and is currently part-time professor Industrial Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The the UvA he is working on high Tg copolyesters for ABS replacement (with LEGO), on biodegradable polymers with fantastic barrier- and mechanical properties (PLGA and PISOX) on PET upcycling and textile (cotton/polyester blend recycling) and on consumer psychology.

Wolfgang Radke studied polymer chemistry in Mainz (Germany) and Amherst (MA, USA) and is head of the PSS Contract Analysis department. He is also responsible for instrument evaluation and for customized trainings. PSS is now part of Agilent.