Dr. Katarina Babic

• Managing external subsidies projects (H2020, Interreg; locally funded programs) - Coordinating strategic needs of Materials businesses of DSM for external subsidies - Monitoring grant calls (EU, local governments), to match DSM’s needs to subsidy opportunities - Coordinating submissions of project proposals accounting for DSM’s goals (incl. Legal and IP) • Operational management of EURLIPIDS project (Interreg Euregio Maas-Rhein call) • Coordinating DSM activities to obtain Dutch premiums for R&D work

Strategic development of separation technology portfolio - Global focal point for separation technology. Link for R&D at business groups. Consolidation of competence overviews and plans - Program manager for corporate Sep. Tech. R&D - DSM representative at ISPT’s Program committee (Dutch Inst. for Sust. Proc. Tech.) • Support for portfolio management of corporate Proc. Tech. R&D platform • Lead scientist in various projects • Project management of business R&D projects (internal and external to DSM)

- Expertise Extraction, distillation, adsorption, ion-exchange Hybrid separations Process intensification Development from lab to pilot plant and conceptual process design Technical and economic evaluations - Main project areas Increased sustainability of bio-based products Resource-efficient separation processes Intensified extraction for bulk processes - Project leadership Strategic competence development Acquisition and management of internal projects Industrial leader of external projects

• Expert for separation technologies (distillation, extraction, adsorption, ion exchange) • Responsible for downstream plants of naphtha crackers • Development and validation of plant models (up to Aspen Plus implementation) • Debottlenecking and plant optimization for various plants • Design of plant trial experiments • Technical and economical assessment of process improvements • Support to business in evaluating new technologies • Root-cause analysis • Project management

PhD at the Separation Technology Group under Prof. de Haan (thesis at http://dx.doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036526470) Research on extractant impregnated resins (EIR) combining reactive extraction and adsorption for removal of aldehydes from aqueous solutions and chiral separation of amino-alcohols: - design of a suitable extraction system - determination and modeling of extraction and reactive sorption equilibria and kinetics - validation using a chromatographic system Supervision of five MSc students

Chemical engineering, separation technology, extraction, adsorption, hybrid process

Degree obtained with honors. Master thesis entitled “Recovery of Benzoic Acid Extracted from Organic Solutions into Water by Carbon Dioxide under Pressure” done at the Separation Technology Group of Prof. Dr. Ir. A.B. de Haan at the University of Twente (the Netherlands)