Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Schembecker
holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Dortmund , In 2005 Gerhard Schembecker was appointed Professor for Plant and Process Design at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering of Technical University Dortmund. He is co-founder of the consultancy firm Process Design Center (PDC) and speaker of CLIB2021 Graduate Cluster “Industrial Biotechnology”.
Further he has published about 30 reviewed papers and textbook chapters, received several awards for his work and is a member of various scientific organizations and advisory boards.


Dr. Stefan Müllner
holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and brings more than 25 years of management experience in Research & Development as well as Business Development and General Management to instrAction. He worked in various positions for fundamenta CAPITAL AG, Henkel KGaA, Aventis SA and Hoechst AG. Further Dr. Müllner is co-founder of Protagen AG. As a former CSO he changed to the CEO position in 2008.