Dr. Sebastian Bauer

- Global Strategic Enabling Technology Champion. - Material development with external suppliers. - Supporting global team through expertise in in fluoromaterials regulatory, chemical, and processing topics - Protecting and advancing trade secrete formulation technology. - Assessment and monitoring of internal and competitive intellectual property - Analyzing finished good projections to model forecast for new materials and their impact on total raw material costs. - Root cause analysis facilitation.

- Technical responsibility for double-digit million Euro purchase volume of various PTFE fine powder grades from strategic suppliers. - Participation in price negotiations and forecast development. - Development, implementation, and execution of a regional second source strategy. - Participating in developing and driving global fluoromaterials supply strategy. - PFTE fine powder processing and quality engineering responsibilities. - Co-auditor in internal and external audits.

- Regional representative in global Industrial Fibers Platform. - Process and equipment responsibility. - Process validation, optimization, and continuous improvement. - Technical preparation of manufacturing process for readiness for high volume project. - New product development. - Training of manufacturing associates.

- Nonwovens and polyurethane based materials for mechanical cleaning applications in professional and FMCG businesses. - New product development from idea phase to market with technical responsibility within a cross functional project team. - Development of process and product specifications. - Maintenance of formulation master data in SAP. - Resolving quality issues internally and with suppliers and technical partners. - Technical and disciplinary responsibility for a laboratory technician.

- Leading research projects in cooperation with partners from industry (BASF SE) and university (University of Versailles (FR), University of Munich). - Primary accountable for installing, maintaining, and utilizing analytical equipment. - Development of equipment for high-throughput experimentation. - Organization of student classes and teaching.

Start with doctoral work in the Department of Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Thomas Bein) before moving with Prof. Dr. Norbert Stock to Kiel. Topic: “Synthesis of chiral zeolites using high-throughput experimentation“

Thesis: “Development and optimization of high-throughput methods for the synthesis, characterization and systematic investigation of inorganic-organic hybrid compounds”