New Education and Research Engineer Renate Evers

Renate Evers obtained her BSc degree in Applied Science from Fontys University of Applied Sciences (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) in 2020. During her studies, she developed an interest in Polymer Science & Engineering and sustainability. She did an internship at Ioniqa Technologies (Eindhoven, the Netherlands), a clean-tech spinoff from the Eindhoven University of Technology, specialized in creating value out of PET waste by using its proprietary circular technology. For her graduation thesis, she performed research on the development of cholesteric liquid crystalline shape-memory polymers at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM), situated at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen (the Netherlands). From 2020 to 2022, she worked at Symeres (Weert, the Netherlands) as a Solid State Chemist, specializing in crystallization studies on Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) for biotech and pharma companies. On May 1st, Renate started her position as an Education and Research Engineer in the Membrane Materials and Processes group.