Prof. Dr. Berend Eling

Berend Eling studied chemistry at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he obtained his PhD in polymer chemistry in 1984. In the same year, he started in polyurethanes research in which he stayed active during his entire industrial career, first at ICI-Polyurethanes in Kortenberg, Belgium, and since 2002 at BASF-Polyurethanes GmbH in Lemförde, Germany, where at present he holds the position of principle scientist. In 2010 he became active as a lecturer and visiting scientist at the institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry of the University of Hamburg and was rewarded an honorary professorship in 2016.