novoMOF was founded in February 2017 at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) to provide an unique production process for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). This enables us to produce at the required speed, scale and quality.
We aim to support innovation in various industries by providing high-quality MOFs and individual consulting solutions.
Enabling companies to lead innovation with MOFs.
novoMOF was founded in February 2017 at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) to provide an unique production process for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). This enables us to produce at the required speed, scale and quality.
We aim to support innovation in various industries by providing high-quality MOFs and individual consulting solutions.
novoMOF – the company
Founded at the Paul Scherrer Institut, the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences within Switzerland, we have access to latest technology and highly qualified personnel. The team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) has profound synthetic and technology expertise on metal-organic frameworks and is supported by a distinguished set of scientific advisors and board members.
Our MOF production facilities are located on the production site and headquarter of Siegfried AG, a global life sciences company active in primary and secondary drug manufacturing, in the heart of Switzerland‘s industrial canton Aargau.
Our Team
Daniel Steitz
CEO & Co-founder
MSc ETH in Chemical and
Bioengineering
Daniel Steitz is co-founder and CEO 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.
Dr. Gerald Bauer
CTO
Ph.D. EPFL in Chemistry
MSc in Technical Chemistry
Gerald Bauer is CTO of novoMOF AG. He received his MSc in Technical Chemistry at the TU in Vienna under joint supervision of Prof. Karl Kirchner, UT Vienna, and Prof. Kazushi Mashima, University of Osaka. Subsequently, he joined the lab of Prof. Xile Hu at EPFL investigating organo-metallic iron complexes in coupling reactions, for which he was awarded his PhD in 2015. Before joining novoMOF AG in 2018, Gerald was working at the Paul Scherrer Institute utilising metal-organic frameworks in catalytic reactions. Gerald is in charge of process development and MOF production.
Niklas Bauer
Marketing Manager
BSc in Business Administration
MSc in International Management
Niklas Bauer is Marketing Manager of novoMOF AG. He graduated with a bachelors degree in Business Management from Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) and is currently pursuing his MSc degree in International Management. Before joining novoMOF, Niklas has gained experience in sales and marketing in various positions and is responsible for all marketing activities.
Scientific advisors
We work with thought-leaders on metal-organic frameworks to further enhance our services. Through our scientific advisors, we have access to the most innovative researchers in the field of metal-organic frameworks.
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
MSCA Fellow, Swansea University; 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. 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, at the University of Texas at Dallas
Prof. Jorge A. R. Navarro
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Granada
Dr. Ross Forgan
Professor of Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow
Board
Support
novoMOF is a Swiss-based MOF company and is sponsoring important conferences in the field:
- 3rd International Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF2019) in Paris, France
- 13th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA2019) in Cairns, Australia
- 6th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds (MOF2018) in Auckland, New Zealand
- 2nd European Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF2017) in Delft, the Netherlands
- 5th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds (MOF 2016) in Los Angeles, USA
As a spinoff from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), novoMOF is supported by PARK INNOVAARE, SwissCompanyMaker, the Swiss Technology Award and the >>venture>> foundation.
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