Dr. Stephan Kretschmer

Managament of operative quality assurance of a production unit as well as quality management. Management of a chemical production plant.

Group manager with budget and personnel responsibility as well as responsibility for laboratories. Focus of work: Management of the development and product care activities related to Hilti’s Chemical Anchoring products. Active participation in shaping the technology roadmap and developing the respective technology field, coordination of internal and external resources, driving the generation of intellectual property.

Area manager with financial and personnel responsibility as well as responsibility for laboratories and pilot lines. Focus of work: R&D and IP management as in previous role and additionally supervision of the innovation portfolio and product safety function. As a member of the European Management Team, active participation in shaping business and company structures and strategies.

Department manager with financial and personnel responsibility as well as responsibility for laboratories and pilot lines. Focus of work: Management of a resilient R&D project portfolio that enables market oriented and sustainable value creation for existing and potential new customers. Efficient coordination of internal and external resources by exercising strategic project management. Generation and securing of relevant intellectual property. Interdisciplinary and across-area communication.

Areas of expertise: customer-oriented development, characterization and evaluation of innovative polyester raw materials for container-, film- and textile-applications as well as for engineering plastics. Working in laboratory and pilot scale and transfer of the developments to commercial scale production. Analytical method development, project management, general lab management with personnel responsibility. Safety, compliance and quality assurance.

Areas of expertise: Analytical chemistry, pesticide residue analysis for registration purposes, chromatography and mass spectrometry, radio-chemical methods, pharmacology, toxicology, metabolism. Electronic and scientific data processing. Study Director under the regulatory framework of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP).

Analytische Toxikologie, Nachweis von Xenobiotika

Makromolekulare Chemie, physikalische Chemie, synthetische und analytische Naturstoffchemie, spektroskopische Methoden