In 2010, Martin Vollmer joined Clariant International Ltd. as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Group Technology & Innovation. He is based in Pratteln, Switzerland, and is responsible for Clariant’s Research & Development, Engineering, IP Management, as well as Clariant’s Business Incubator and Innovation Excellence.
Prior to this he held various management positions in Research & Development, Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Development at Bayer AG and Bayer MaterialScience AG, based in Leverkusen, Germany, from 1999 until 2009.
He graduated with a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 1996. Following this, he took a postdoctoral research position in the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, USA, from 1997 – 1998.
Martin Vollmer serves as Member of the Board of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS), German Chemical Society (GDCh) and Dechema, and is as Member of the Programme Committee Innovation of Cefic.
Martin Vollmer was appointed as Chairman of US based Scientific Design Company Inc., a Joint Venture between Sabic and Clariant in the field of catalysis, from 2012 to 2015. Since 2019 he serves as Board Member of Biocatalysts Ltd., based in Cardiff, UK