Serge Niederkorn

CEO

MSc ETH in Mechanical Engineering
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Serge is CEO of novoMOF AG. Serge holds a master degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). In previous positions Serge was holding executive management positions in the construction and automotive industry. Furthermore Serge has been working as management consultant for leading international strategy management consulting firms.

Daniel Steitz

Founder & CIO

MSc ETH in Chemical and
Bioengineering

Daniel is founder and Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of novoMOF AG. He holds a master degree in Chemical and Bioengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and has been working in the group of Professor Jeroen A. van Bokhoven. Before incorporating novoMOF AG, Daniel worked at the Paul Scherrer Institute on metal-organic frameworks under the supervision of Dr. Marco Ranocchiari. Since February 2017, Daniel is in charge of managing the PSI-spinoff.

Cristina Lendvai

Marketing Manager

MSc in Business Administration
BSc in Marketing

Cristina is the Marketing Manager of novoMOF AG. She holds a MSc degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO). Cristina has multiple years of experience across various industries with proven success in strategy development, event organisation, community management, content marketing, website development, SEO, email marketing and PPC campaigns.

Charles Toft

CTO

Dr. Sc. Supramolecular Chemistry
MSc Chemistry

Charles is the Chief Technology Officer of novoMOF AG. With a PhD in supramolecular chemistry, Charles has been gaining further experience in material development for application-specific processes. In his role, he provides technical and chemical knowledge, and further advances our production expertise.

Anna Chomiak

Application Engineer

Dr. sc. ETH Process Engineering
MSc in Engineering

Anna has 14 years of industrial and R&D experience in fields related to environmental and process engineering. This broad range includes development of polymers for desalination and oilfield (BWA Water Additives), mass transfer limitations on membrane systems (biofouling) at EAWAG / ETH Zürich, and sorbents & pigments based on calcium carbonate (Omya). For novoMOF, Anna is involved customer projects as well as internal process developments.

Oliver Maurer

Lab & Production Specialist

Chemie- und Pharmatechnologe EFZ
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Oliver is responsible for the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks at lab and production scale. He has a sound background in the production of intermediates and active ingredients (non HiPo – HiPo Kat. 3). With his broad experience in the development of ingredients at pilot scale, he optimises the yield of our syntheses while increasing  the quality of our MOFs.

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. Omar M. Yaghi

James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Prof. Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmith

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bioengineering, at the University of Texas at Dallas