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"Bioeconomy offers the opportunity for a sustainable economic and social system and has the ability to bring together ecological and economic perspectives."

Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Eck

CEO & CTO of SymbioPharm GmbH and SymbioGruppe GmbH & Co.KG
Founder of bio.IMPACT

The most important stages of the career

since 2021 
Co-CEO & CTO of SymbioPharm GmbH and SymbioGruppe GmbH  

since 2020 
Founder and CEO of bio.IMPACT

2015-2019
CEO of BRAIN AG and BRAIN Group

1993-2015
Co-founder and CTO of BRAIN AG

1994
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Institute of Biochemistry of the TU Darmstadt 

1989 
Dipl.-Biol. with focus on Microbiology and Biochemistry at the TU Darmstadt

Activities and Memberships

2018 
Co-Chair Gordon Research Conference on Biocatalysis 

since 2019
Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg

since 2018
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Dechema Research Institute DFI, Frankfurt

2016 - 2020
Member of the DFG Senate Commission for Fundamental Questions of Genetic Research

Awards

2018
Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO

2017
Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 – Top 10 Entrepreneur in Germany

1993 - 2015
During his time as CTO of BRAIN AG, the company received more than 20 awards for product innovation, sustainability and communication.

Biography

As an Entrepreneur, Biotechnologist, Innovator and Investor my commitment is to enable a modern BioEconomy as a sustainable economic and societal system. It is my strong believe that the combination of biology and technology is key to create disruptive innovations with lower carbon footprint and to enable a circular economy.

Focus

  • Tech-Transfer & Innovation
  • Industrial Biotechnology
  • Biologization of Productionprocesses

Future Challenges

  • Resource- and energy efficiency
  • Circular BioEconomy
  • Climate-neutral production
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