Team

The O11 team

experienced,

 complementary

  and highly motivated

The O11 team in numbers...


... 79 years of scientific experience

    in the fields of:

  • Biomedical Engineering,
  • Engineering Sciences,
  • Plastics & Textile Processing,
  • Cell and Molecular Biology


... 32 years of clinical experience

    in the fields of:

  • Pneumology,
  • Intensive Care,
  • Cardiology,
  • Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery


Dr. Richard Ramakers

CEO/CTO

To him that will,

wais are not wanting

  • Doctorate at RWTH in the field of quality assurance of synthetic fibers
  • 17 years of experience in science and innovation management.
  • Trained and TÜV-certified change manager with broad experience in industrial consulting
  • Founding father and long-standing Managing Director of the Aachen-Maastricht-Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Jockenhövel

CSO

Nature is a great teacher...     
    ... be humble, listen & learn

  • 11 years of clinical experience in the field of cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery and intensive care medicine at the University Hospitals of Aachen and Zurich as well as the heart centres in Lahr and Luxembourg
  • Since 2011, holder of the NRW Professorship Biohybrid & Medical Textiles (BioTex) at the Institute for Applied Medical Technology at RWTH Aachen University
  • Founding father and long-standing Scientific Director of the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (Maastricht University)

PD Dr. Christian Cornelissen

Chief Clinical Researcher

Life is like a box of chocolates:

You never know what you're gonna get

  • Doctorate 2010 at the BioTex Institute of RWTH Aachen University
  • Habilitation 2018 in the field of pneumology
  • Clinical head of the respiratory tissue engineering working group at the BioTex Institute
  • Specialist in internal medicine, cardiology and pneumology
  • Member of the ECMO team at the University Hospital Aachen

Dr. Caroline Kniebs

Chief Regulatory Officer (CRO)

    Since there is no wrong or right...                        ... you reap what you sow


  • Study of cell and molecular biology at the RWTH Aachen University
  • Doctorate at the Dept. Biohybrids & Medical Textiles (BioTex)
  • Doctoral degree in respiratory tissue engineering from RWTH Aachen University
  • International research interships at the VU Amsterdam and Hong Kong University in the field of vascularized 3D tumor models

Stefan Siebert, M.Sc.

Product Engineer

     One man will find the way...                          ... why not be that man?


  • Globetrotter with a degree in engineering from RWTH Aachen University
  • focus on plastics and textile processes
  • Research associate and doctoral student in the field of polymer engineering at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) and Biohybrid & Medical Textiles (BioTex)



Anna Wichterich, M.Sc.

Lab Engineering

Be yourself...

...everyone else is already taken

  • Master of Science in Microbiology Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in cooperation with Forschungszentrum Jülich
  • Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science Hogeschool Zuid Heerlen, The Netherlands
  • Training as a Biological Laboratory Assistant at Forschungszentrum Jülich
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