About us
History
Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, novoMOF was created to bring the potential of Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) from the lab to industrial reality. Today, our headquarters and production facilities are located at the Siegfried AG site, where our expertise is centered on state-of-the-art manufacturing of high-purity MOFs tailored for industrial deployment. Over the years, our goal has been enabling solutions to global challenges such as carbon capture, water scarcity, and food waste management.
Our innovation has been widely recognized, with accolades including the Innosuisse Startup Innovation Project 2025–2027, Deep Tech Pioneer 2023 by Hello Tomorrow, Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Manufacturing & Industry) 2020, and finalist positions for the Swiss Technology Award 2016 and >>venture>> TOP1 Business Idea 2016.
Following a successful financing round in 2025, we are accelerating the deployment of our CO₂ capture MOFs across industries, leveraging our proprietary materials to enable cost-efficient, compact, and sustainable capture systems. At the same time, we continue to push the boundaries of MOF technology to address the next generation of global challenges.
Mission & Vision
Our mission is to unlock the power of MOFs to solve pressing environmental and industrial challenges — starting with cost-efficient, compact, and sustainable CO₂ capture.
We envision a future where MOFs are embedded across industries, enabling breakthroughs in resource efficiency, clean energy, and sustainable manufacturing. While scaling the deployment of our CO₂ capture MOFs today, we are also driving innovation to bring next-generation MOF solutions to new markets, addressing emerging global needs.
TEAM
Founder & CEO
CTO
CFO
Co-Founder & Strategic Business Development
Vice President of Commercial Strategy
Marketing Director
Application Engineer
Materials Specialist
Materials Specialist
Adsorption Specialist
Lab & Production Specialist
PARTNERS
Prof. Dr. Jeroen A. van Bokhoven
novoMOF Co-Founder
Professor for Heterogeneous Catalysis, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich; Head of Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (LSK), Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)
Dr. Marco Ranocchiari
novoMOF Co-Founder
Group Leader of Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (LSK), Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI); Ph.D. Homogeneous Catalysis, ETH Zurich
Dr. Marco Taddei
novoMOF Co-Founder
Assistant Professor, University of Pisa, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry; Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Prof. Dr. Wendy Lee Queen
Professor and Head of Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials (LFIM), Department of Chemical Engineering, EPFL Valais Wallis
Prof. Dr. Mircea Dincă
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Functional Inorganic and Organic Materials, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Prof. Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmith
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas
Prof. Jorge A. R. Navarro
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Granada
Dr. Ross Forgan
Professor of Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow
BOARD
TESTIMONIALS
novoMOF is a reliable partner for any organization seeking to scale up their metal-organic frameworks. As the principal investigator of our Atmospheric …
David R. Moore, Ph.D.
– GE Research Executive Manager, Carbon Capture Technology Leader
I had the opportunity to work with novoMOF AG on the scale up of one of our MOFs. Their production of a high-quality MOF at kilogram scale,…
Dr. Omar M. Yaghi.
– Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
In our syngas conversion development efforts at Dow we have been investigating MOFs as catalyst precursors. In order to evaluate and compare our internal …
Matthijs Ruitenbeek
– Senior R&D Manager The Dow Chemical Company
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Dr. Reto Holzner
– Chief Scientific Officer econimo DRIVE