Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
evocatal
Location Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Thorsten Eggert is CEO of evocatal and one of the founders.
He studied biology at the Ruhr-University in Bochum and received his PhD degree in microbiology with special emphasis on enzyme-optimization through molecular engineering. After completing his PhD degree he was head of the group “Directed Evolution” at the Institute of Molecular Enzyme
Technology of Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and successfully expanded it into a key group of the institute as well as at the Centre for Microbial Biotechnology (CMB) at the Research Centre Julich.
In May 2007 he finished his post doctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in molecular microbiology. The topic was “Novel biocatalysts for technical applications by evolution and design”.
