
Professor Dr Rolf D Schmid MBA
Founder and CEO
- *January, 1942
- Graduated in chemistry and biochemistry at the Universities of München (LMU) and Freiburg
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Post-doctoral training in France and the USA
- Research scientist at Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf, Head of Biotechnology R&D
- Head of the Enzyme Technology Division of the Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung
- Full Professor for Enzyme Technology at Braunschweig Technical University
- Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Technical Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart
- MBA International Marketing from Reutlingen University
- Honorary Professor of Nanjing University of Technology
- 2007 Foundation of Bio4Business
- 2015 Foundation of Steinbeis-Beratungszentrum Asia Technology Consulting
Visiting researcher at:
- National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Anthropology, Leipzig
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China
Scientific standing:
- 380 publications, 5 books, about 80 patents or patent applications
- 3 books and over 50 publications on biotechnology in Japan and China
- member of various scientific organizations in Germany, the USA and Japan
- past chairman of the IUPAC Committee on Biotechnology
- various chairman functions in Germany
- 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, Biotechnology Division
Company links:
- past member and chairman of the Supervisory Board, past chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Eppendorf AG, Hamburg
- past chairman of the Scientifc Advisory Board of Toulouse White Biotech
- member of the Scientifc Advisory Board of CLIB2021
- member of the Association of German Biotechnology Companies (VBU)
- past scientific advisor to companies in Germany, Switzerland and France
Government links:
- Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg/Germany: Coordinator for the bilateral cooperation in the field of biotechnology with Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and Kanagawa Prefecture (since 2009)
- Dept. of Science and Technology, Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government, China: Science and Technology Development Advisor (since 2008)
- Dept. of Science and Technology of Qingdao Municipality, China: Honorary Adviser