Dr Steffi Friedrichs has been a leading expert, policy advisor and business representative for emerging technological innovation for nearly 25 years.
She is currently the Founder and Director of AcumenIST SRL, an internationally active consultancy that drives the advancement of science- and technology-based innovations through proactive initiatives in the public and private sector. Before joining AcumenIST, Steffi worked for the OECD (Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation/Industry), where she developed definitions, indicators and impact assessment for biotechnology and nanotechnology, and led two international workshops on genome editing.
Steffi has a strong track record in the establishment, development and representation of technology-based companies; she was the Founder and General Director of the Nanotechnology Industry Association (NIA) group, Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Micro- & Nanotechnology Community (CMNC), Director of the Master’s Program in Micro- and Nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge, Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and Solid State Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and Founder & Director General of Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) AISBL, based in Brussels since 2009 (and Managing Director of the NIA-UK from 2005).
Steffi has a GBR Ph.D. (DPhil) from the University of Oxford (UK) specializing in nanotechnology and a DiplChem Title from the Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany), as well as a GBR diploma in higher education (DipHE).
