Name: Ib Johannsen
Telephone: +45 21356050
Email: ib.johannsen@gmail.com
Summary
- +30 years of research and research management in industrial and academic positions
- Strong sense for business opportunities and innovation management
- Like working across organizational barriers and in multidisciplinary as well as international environments
- Good teaching experience on both pre and post graduate level
- Broad scientific background ranging from polymers to biotech
Employment
2015 – CEO IBJ-tecnology IVS – Bio2Oil IVS
2014 – Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, AU
2011 – 2014 Department head, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University
2009 – 2011 Department head, Department of Chemistry and Physics, SDU
2007 – 2009 Director, Chemistry Department, GE Healthcare
2001 – 2007 CEO, VersaMatrix A/S
1994 – 2001 Director of the Danish Polymer Centre, Head of Research Programme RISØ National Laboratory, Danish Polymer Centre
1990 – 1994 Group Manager, NKT Research Centre
1989 – 1989 Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, Orsay, France (3 months)
1986 – 1987 Visiting Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Centre, California, USA
(12 months)
1984 – 1989 Assistant / Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, Institute of Chemistry
1981 – 1984 Project fellowship, Technical University of Copenhagen/ University of Copenhagen,
* More than 12 international publications published/accepted
Other Appointments
1994 – 2000 Coordinator of MODECS Research Forum
1996 – 2001 Member of the Technical Research Council (STVF), two periods – last period as member of steering group (forretningsudvalget)
1996 – 2002 Chairman of the national committee for high cost scientific instruments, member of several other national research committees (FELFO,..)
2003 – Member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV)
2009 – 2015 Member of the Board of Chempilots A/S
2009 – 2011 Member of the Board of Science Venture Denmark
2013 – Head of Biovalue competence centre for Conversion.
2015 – Head of AU centre for Biorefinery technologies
Education
1981 Cand.polyt. (M.Sc. Chemistry), Technical University of Denmark
Publications and patents
61 Peer reviewed articles in international journals
15 Patents/patent applications