Principal Scientist
DSM-Firmenich
Bouke is a Principal Scientist and Group lead for Applied Microbial Physiology at DSM-Firmenich in Columbia, MD. In the last 15 years, he worked in commercializing, scaling, transferring and different products within human and animal nutritional market, pharmaceutics and fashion industry (Bolt Threads). Entrepreneurship, science and innovation come together in his passion creating a more sustainable future.
Bouke holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Biotechnology from the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands), Science Based Business MBA from University of Leiden (Netherlands) and a PhD and Systems and Synthetic Biology from Jens Nielsens lab at Chalmers Technical University (Sweden).