Dr. Martin Brudermüller

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.

Professional Career


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

Memberships


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.