DSM has appointed Marcel Wubbolts, currently vice president R&D DSM Innovation Center, to the position of chief technology officer as of Oct.1, reporting to Rob van Leen, Chief Innovation Officer.

Marcel holds a PhD from the University of Groningen, NL, was post-doc and Assistent Professor at the ETH in Zürich. He joined DSM as a senior scientist and became Managing Director of DSM Biotech GmbH, in Jülich, Germany. Thereafter, he was competence manager Biocatalysis & Biotransformations and then became program director at the DSM Innovation Center in Delft, the Netherlands, running the Industrial (White) Biotechnology program

Marcel will succeed Jos Put who will continue to be an advisor to DSM e.g. in the field of material sciences and for several of the DSM Science and Technology awards.