Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Iden
Senior Vice President
BASF SE, Germany

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Iden is the spokesman of BASF for Nanotechnology.

He received his degree in chemistry from the Julius-Maximilian University in Wuerzburg in 1977 and his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Wuerzburg in 1981.

He joined BASF's Colorants Laboratory as a Research Scientist in 1981, then he became the Head of Computational Chemistry in BASF's Main Laboratory and in 1987 the Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors. In 1991 he became the Head of Colorants Research. And since 1996 he was responsible as the Head of Pigment Research for the three sites of BASF in Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart and Rensellaer NY.

Since 1999 he is the head of Polymer Physics Research for BASF Group and since 2002 the Spokesman of BASF for Nanotechnology.

For a couple of years he is giving lectures in organic chemistry at the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf; in 2004 he became Honorary Professor at the University of Duesseldorf.

In addition to this, Prof. Dr. Iden holds a number of positions in highly acknowledged institutions which are listed here:

• Chairman of the Board:
  Southern German Plastics Centre - Förderverein Süddeutsches Kunststoffzentrum, SKZ;
  Wuerzburg
• Co Chairman and Head of Materials Section:
  European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem); Brussels
• Member of the Board:
  Nanotechnology Industry Association; Brussels
• Member of Supervisory Board:
  Center for Applied Energy Research – Zentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung, ZAE; Wuerzburg
  German Wool Research Institute - Deutsches Wollforschungsinstitut, DWI; Aachen
• Member of Advisory Board:
  Max-Planck-Institut (MPIKG), Golm
• Member:
  German Academy of Science and Engineering – Acatech; Munich
• Member of Industry Advisory Board:
  California NanoSystems Institute, LA