Rudolf Koopmans currently works at Koopmans Consulting GmbH. He is also Former member of the Dow Chemical Company, he has 35 years of industrial experience in R&D. Director of the Plastics Innovation Competence Center in Fribourg, Switzerland. Dr. Rudy Koopmans fosters creative thinking that stimulates innovative science and technology and application development that impacts industry and contributes to a sustainable society. Rudolf does research in Physical Chemistry, Plastics materials Science and Plastics Processing. Current projects 'Bio-inspired self-assembling synthetic organic materials'. Plastic materials modelling, and Enhancing plastics functionality and application.