Are you a member of academic staff, postdoc or research associate in the Faculty of Natural Sciences interested in academic entrepreneurship? Would you like to find out more about translating STEM research into a viable business?
You are warmly invited to join us to hear Dr Peter Eckes reflect on his role as President of Bioscience Research, driving innovative sustainable solutions at BASF Corporation.
How to join
Date: 20 October 2021
Time: 14:00 –14:45 GMT (virtual event)
Event link: Click here to join the live meeting at 14.00 on 20 October
Get a calendar reminder: email Luis who can forward you the meeting invitation for your Outlook calendars
Got a question? Email the organisers Dr Mei Chong or Dr Luis Gomez Sarosi
Our speaker
As President of Bioscience Research, Peter Eckes leads one of the world’s leading bioscience competence centres. In this role he drives innovative sustainable solutions for agricultural, food and industrial applications for a better life and an improved environment.
Immediately prior to this position Peter led as President of BASF Plant Science, which followed on from his role as Senior Vice President for BASF’s global Crop Protection Division’s Research and Development.
Peter joined BASF in 1992, after completing a postgraduate fellowship at Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry. In 1997, Peter joined BASF Chemical Intermediates Division as Technical Director of Production at BASF’s Verbund integrated production site in Geismar, LA. In 2000, Peter returned to Ludwigshafen to accept the position of Director, New Business Development for the global Chemical Intermediates Division, a position he held until accepting the Senior Vice President role with Crop Protection in 2002.
About FoNS Founders Forum
The FoNS Founders Forum (FFF) aims to develop a vibrant community of entrepreneurs and academics engaged in impact beyond academe. This informal grouping is open to all academic staff, particularly those who are either active or curious about commercialisation and/or increasing the non-academic impact of their work. The intention is to create a self-supporting community of academic entrepreneurs able to provide, guidance, advice, experience, contacts and support to each other.
Business leaders and Imperial academics will be invited to come together over a series of forum sessions every third Wednesday of the month during term time. You will have the opportunity to share knowledge in entrepreneurship, engage in networking and create connections.
We hope you will be able to join us for this event.