Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), BASF SE
Martin Brudermüller was born in Stuttgart in 1961. From 1980 onwards he studied Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and received his degree in 1985. After earning his doctorate in Karlsruhe in 1987, he did a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, United States.
2019 | Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BASF SE, responsible for the divisions Legal, Taxes, Insurance & Intellectual Property, Corporate Development, Corporate Communications & Government Relations, Senior Executive Human Resources, Investor Relations, Compliance, Corporate Technology & Operational Excellence and Innovation Management |
2018 | Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BASF SE, responsible for the divisions Legal, Taxes, Insurance & Intellectual Property, Corporate Development, Corporate Communications & Government Relations, Senior Executive Human Resources, Investor Relations, Compliance, BASF 4.0, Corporate Technology & Operational Excellence, Digitalization in Research & Development, and Innovation Management |
2015 | Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, responsible for the divisions Petrochemicals, Monomers, Intermediates, Process Research & Chemical Engineering, Innovation Management, Digitalization in Research & Development, BASF New Business, as well as Corporate Technology & Operational Excellence |
2011 | Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen |
2006 | Member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft (since January 14, 2008 BASF SE), responsible for the region Asia Pacific located in Hong Kong |
2003 | President, Functional Polymers, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen |
2001 | Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning BASF Group, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen |
1999 | Director, production fat-soluble vitamins, Fine Chemicals, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen |
1997 | Staff to the Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen |
1995 | Head of Sales Intermediates, Pharma Chemicals, BASF Italia Spa, Milan, Italy |
1993 | New Business Development/Marketing, Intermediates, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen |
1988 | Joined the Ammonia Laboratory at BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen |
Since 01/2019 | BDI (Member of the Presidium) |
Since 12/2018 | Hightech-Forum 2025 (Member) |
Since 11/2018 | National Platform for the Future of Mobility (NPM), (Member Working Group 4) |
Since 11/2018 | ERT – European Round Table of Industrialists (Member) |
Since 10/2018 | Economic Advisory Council of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (Member) |
Since 09/2018 |
Verband der Chemischen Industrie e. V., VCI (German Chemical Industry Association, Vice President) |
Since 05/2018 | International Council of Chemical Associations, ICCA (Member of the Executive Board and Member of the Global Executive Strategy Group) |
Since 06/2017 | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Member of the Senate Committee) |
Since 11/2015 | Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V. (Federation of German Industries; BDI) and Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände e. V. (Confederation of German Employers’ Associations; BDA), Berlin, Germany, Committee on Research, Innovation and Technology Policy (Representative of the German Chemical Industry Association, Verband der Chemischen Industrie e. V., VCI) |
Since 05/2015 | acatech - Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften e. V. (National Academy of Science and Engineering), Munich, Germany (Member of the Senate Committee) |
Since 05/2015 | Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (Fund of the Chemical Industry; FCI) of the Verband der Chemischen Industrie e. V. (German Chemical Industry Association; VCI), Frankfurt, Germany (Member of the Board of Trustees) |
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Dr. Martin Brudermüller at the supercomputer at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany. BASF researchers can perform complex simulations and modeling operations in no time thanks to the new supercomputer’s 1.75 petaflops of computing power.