Dr. Martin Brudermüller
Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of 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.
He is responsible for the divisions Corporate Legal, Compliance & Insurance, Corporate Development, Corporate Communications & Government Relations, Corporate Human Resources and Corporate Investor Relations.
| Since 10/2020 | European Chemical Industry Council Cefic (President) |
| Since 05/2019 | ERT – European Round Table for Industry (Chairman “Competitiveness & Innovation” Working Group; since 11/2018 Member) |
| 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 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 | BDI and BDA, 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) |
Dr. Martin Brudermüller
Dr. Martin Brudermüller
Dr. Martin Brudermüller
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Martin Brudermüller: With our strategy we are on the right path: Our customers are experiencing a new BASF.
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.