Kai Baldenius
Head of Biocatalysis Research, BASF/Germany
"We haven’t fully appreciated the potency of enzyme catalysis,
let’s move out of the chiral niche and target chemical production more broadly"
Vita:
Kai Baldenius is a chemist by formation. After receiving a PhD from Hamburg University, he spent a post-doc research year at The Scripps Research Institute before he joined BASF in 1993. In BASF Kai started his career in the central research doing process development work for vitamins and other fine chemicals. He took over responsibilities in production, marketing and sales, before he returned to research. Since 2009, Kai heads the BASF biocatalysis research group.
