The O11 Team

Dr. Richard Ramakers

CEO/CTO

  • PhD at RWTH Aachen University in the field of quality assurance of synthetic fibers
  • 17 years of experience in science and innovation management.
  • Trained and TÜV-certified Change Manager with broad experience in industrial consulting
  • Founder and long-time Managing Director of the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials

Prof. Dr. Stefan Jockenhövel

CSO

  •  11 years of clinical work in the field of cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery and intensive care medicine at the University Hospitals of Aachen and Zurich as well as the heart centers in Lahr and Luxembourg.
  •  Since 2011, holder of the NRW Professorship Biohybrid & Medical Textiles (BioTex) at the Institute of Applied Medical Technology at RWTH Aachen University
  •  Founder and long-time Scientific Director of the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (Maastricht University)


PD Dr. Christian Cornelissen

Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

  • PhD in 2010 at the BioTex Institute of RWTH Aachen
  • Habilitation 2018 in Pneumology
  • Clinical Director of the Respiratory Tissue Engineering Working Group at the BioTex Institute
  • Specialist in internal medicine, cardiology and pulmonology
  • Part of the ECMO team at UK Aachen

Dr. Caroline Kniebs

Chief Regulatory Officer (CRO)

  • Study of cell and molecular biology at RWTH Aachen University
  • PhD in the field of respiratory tissue engineering at the Dept. Biohybrids & Medical Textiles (BioTex) of RWTH Aachen University.
  • International research stays at VU Amsterdam and Hong Kong University in the field of vascularized 3D tumor models.
  • TÜV certified QM & Regulatory Affairs Manager

Maxime Nütten, M.Sc.

Finance Director

  •  Several years of international corporate finance and M&A experience
  •  Certified in Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst @CFI
  •  Development of Data Analytics & Reporting Tools with Microsoft
  •  Master of Science in International Business and SME Management & Entrepreneurship at Maastricht University
  •  Finance & Accounting training at Bocconi University, Milan


Stefan Siebert, M.Sc.

Product Engineer

  •  Globetrotter with a degree in engineering from RWTH Aachen
  •  Focus on plastics and textile processes
  •  Research associate and doctoral student in the field of polymer engineering at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) and Biohybrid & Medical Textiles (BioTex).



Anna Mues, M.Sc.

Laboratory Engineer

  •  Master of Science in Microbiology at the University of Bonn in cooperation with the Research Centre Jülich
  •  Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science at the Hogeschool Zuid Heerlen, The Netherlands
  •  Training as a biology laboratory technician at the Jülich Research Center



The O11 team in numbers...


... 85 years of scientific experience ... 38 years of clinical experience

in the areas: in the areas:

Biomedical engineering, pulmonology,

Engineering, intensive care medicine,

Plastics processing, cardiology,

Cell and Molecular Biology Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery