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The Team

More than just day-to-day administration, our managing team is committed to integrity and excellence. 

Through collaboration and strategy, they implement and monitor EIT RawMaterial projects, events and programmes.

Managing Board

Bernd Schäfer

Bernd Schäfer

CEO, Managing Director
Andreas Klossek

Dr Andreas Klossek

COO, Managing Director

Access to Finance

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Antony Slotboom

Access to Finance Director
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Dr Massimo Gasparon

ERMA Director
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Antonis Politis

Senior Business Development Manager
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Dr Catherine Bounsaythip

Business Development Manager
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Dr Maria Encina Lopez

Business Development Manager
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Dr Nicolas Menou

Business Development Manager
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Dr Theo Berthet

Business Development Manager
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Dr. Richard Napier

Investment Finance
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Fabio Pegorin

Business Development Manager
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Fairouz Chebab

Access to Finance Admin Specialist
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Phuong Dai Nestler

Marketing and Financial Officer

Administration

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Alexandra Balke

Personal Assistant to the CEO
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Mareike Hammelmann

Management Assistant and Administration

Business Development and Fundraising

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Dr Didier Zimmermann

Business Development and Fundraising Director
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Michel Vanavermaete

Central & West Regional Director
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Piotr Skorynko

East & South Regional Director
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Toni Rönnberg

Baltic Sea & North Regional Director
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Vanessa Lorenz

Head of Partner Engagement
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Ana Carina Verissimo

Business Development Manager
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André Ufer

Project Coordinator Responsible Sourcing
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Coen de Vos

Business Development Manager
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Dariusz Jerzy Janik

Business Development Manager
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Dr. Kristina Lovrek

RIS Project Coordinator
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Jannes Path

Business Development Manager
Keith Taylor

Keith Taylor

Business Development Manager
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Mikko Korhonen

Business Development Manager
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Noemi Boldrini

Business Development Manager
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Tina Benda

Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) Manager

Communications and Outreach

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Anoop Kayarat

Communications and Outreach Director
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Alexandru Tand

Event Manager
Elisabeth Ippel

Elisabeth Ippel

Communications Manager
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Javor Dimitrov

Graphic Designer
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Stefano Arciprete

Outreach Manager

Education

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Anastasia Arnhold

Education & HR Director
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Jan Eggert

Head of Education
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Agata Poczmańska

Education Manager
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Anja Suknaic

EIT Community Education Coordinator
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Benjamin Maloney

Education Manager
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Cornelia Crucean

Education Project Specialist
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Dorota Jouet

HEI Initiative Specialist
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Dr Dolores Volkert

Head of HEI Capacity Building Initiative
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Dr Fabio Ferri

Education Manager
Dr. Noam Obermeister

Dr. Noam Obermeister

Policy and Alliances Manager of HEI Initiative
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Francesca Barisani

Outreach and Stakeholder Manager
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Krysta Martinez

Academy Manager
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Ligita Baleisyte

Education Project Manager
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Natalia Calavita

Education Project Specialist
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Rosanna West

HEI Capacity Building Initiative Manager
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Solene Moutier

Education Project Specialist
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Steffen Robert

Education Manager
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Timo Cerny

HEI Manager – Community of Practice

Finance, Operations and Compliance

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Dita Daukste

Head of Operations
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Cyrille Saunier

Head of Finance
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Anar Davaadash

Commercial Operations Manager
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Carolina Marín Moncada

Operations Manager
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Damian Majer

Accountant
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Eliza Koziara

Accountant
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Heidi Castro

Finance and Administration Officer
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Hichem Sayoud

Operations Manager
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Katja Rauhala

Finance and Administration Officer
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Lisa Breidenstein

Senior Operations Manager
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Omer Khan

Accountant
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Sandra Grunde

Process and Intelligent Automation Manager
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Sylwia Wasilewicz Crozier

Administration and Finance Officer
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Valeria De Petris

Administration and Finance Officer

Innovation and Product Development

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Dr Roland Gauß

Innovation and Product Development Director
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Dr Laurence Lamm

Senior Advisor – Mineral and Metallurgical Processes
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Dr Patrick Nadoll

Senior Advisor – Exploration and Resource Assessment
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Jenni Kiventerä

Senior Advisor
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Vicente Fuhrmann

Data Analyst

Human Resources

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Anastasia Arnold

Education and HR Director
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Shruti Gupta

HR Specialist
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Shushanik Sargsyan

HR Assistant

Steering Committee

Within EIT RawMaterials, each Innovation Hub is locally supported by a Steering Committee. The committees consist of partner representatives, in each Innovation Hub. The Steering Committees provide guidance related to strategy and business planning, events planning, company policy and objectives, budgetary control, resource allocation and similar matters. Each Steering Committee is led by a Steering Committee Chair.

The present chairs are:

  • Tarja Laitinen, VTT, Region Baltic Sea
  • Etienne Bouyer, The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Region Central
  • Prof. Katerina Adam, NTUA, Region East
  • Maria Wallin, NTNU, Region North
  • Francisco “Patxi” Javier Elorza, Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Region South
  • Kamila Mascart, UGhent, Region West

Intellectual Property Committee

On 25 September 2015, the General Assembly of EIT RawMaterials e.V. unanimously approved the IP Committee of our Innovation Community. EIT RawMaterials gratitude goes out to them for their continued contributions and support.

The mandate of the IP Committee includes, amongst others things, advising the General Assembly, the Executive Board and the Management Team of EIT RawMaterials regarding any sort of IP issues that are related to the management of our KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) and of the projects of our partners. The Committee also supports the further development of the activity-specific IP rules, which will be communicated to our KIC ecosystem as soon as possible.

The present chairs are:

  • Tomi Erho Aalto University, Innovation Hub Baltic Sea
  • Christoph Wiktor Schureck, Fraunhofer, Innovation Hub Central
  • Karin Rehatschek, Montanuniversität Leoben, Innovation Hub East
  • Göran Tuomas, LKAB
  • Donata Folesani, Aster, Innovation Hub South
  • Merlijn Bazuine, TU Delft, Innovation Hub West


 

Education Committee

The present chairs are:

  • Chair of the EIT RawMaterials Education Committee: Sibila Borojević Šoštarić, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Region East
  • Kaisa Hansen, Head of Startup Centre, TalTech University, Region Baltic Sea
  • Åsa Kassman Rudolphi, Head of Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Region North
  • Franco Bonollo, Full Professor of Metallurgy at the Department of Management and Engineering, Padova University, Region South
  • Daniel Berger, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Region East