KlarText Award for Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom
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Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom received the KlarText Award from the Klaus Tschira Stiftung for his PhD thesis as well as for his excellent science communication article on the production of bioplastic.
On October 11 2018, Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom received the external page KlarText Award. The prize is given for excellent PhD theses dedicated to a wide range of questions and a science communication article written in German on the subject. The article is intended to draw the attention of non-scientists to what is currently happening in research.
Jan-Georg Rosenboom studied chemical engineering at the TU Hamburg. He spent a year at the University of California in Berkeley and wrote his diploma thesis at the University of Cambridge (England). He received his doctorate at ETH Zurich with his thesis "Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF) from Ring-Opening Polymerisation". Together with a Swiss company, he is currently developing processes for the industrial implementation of bioplastic production. In his article external page Plastik vom Acker (in German), Jan-Georg Rosenboom explains a new method for the large-scale production of bioplastics. He has been working on a new process for the faster production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF) using ring-shaped molecules. PEF is a possible substitute for PET and other polyesters.
His publication about bioplastic in external page Nature Communications was covered this summer in ETHZ News.
