Dr. Chris Barbe
Ceramisphere, CEO
Chris is a deep tech entrepreneur which a passion for the development of new materials technology to tackle global issues.
Chris received his BSc from the Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris and a PhD in Materials Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). He has over 25 years of experience, spanning 3 continents, in developing and commercialising new materials and technologies for a wide range of commercial applications from high temperature superconductors, to blue-lasers, biosensors, solar cells and drug delivery. Having gained experience in world-class R&D organisations such as Dupont Central Research, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology (ANSTO), he has been leading innovation at Ceramisphere for the last 13 years.
He is currently the CEO of both Ceramisphere, which is commercializing smart anticorrosion pigments in Europe and the USA, and Ceramisphere Health, which is bringing to the clinic a new type of super-efficient and easily disposable transdermal patches.
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Success Stories from Bench to Trials to Market
Chris received his BSc from the Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris and a PhD in Materials Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). He has over 25 years of experience, spanning 3 continents, in developing and commercialising new materials and technologies for a wide range of commercial applications from high temperature superconductors, to blue-lasers, biosensors, solar cells and drug delivery. Having gained experience in world-class R&D organisations such as Dupont Central Research, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology (ANSTO), he has been leading innovation at Ceramisphere for the last 13 years.
He is currently the CEO of both Ceramisphere, which is commercializing smart anticorrosion pigments in Europe and the USA, and Ceramisphere Health, which is bringing to the clinic a new type of super-efficient and easily disposable transdermal patches.
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Success Stories from Bench to Trials to Market