Carla Seidel

Carla Seidel is Senior Vice President at BASF Group Research and leads the department Analytical and Material Science. She is a member of the Board of the German Chemical Society GDCh and of the Strategic Advisory Board Energy for the Helmholtz Society. Carla has served in a variety of leadership roles in BASF from R&D to Strategy, Marketing & Sales and Business Build Up from upstream Intermediates to downstream Care Chemicals and applied chemistry Energy Technologies.She joined BASF as a lab team leader in Central Analytics, Process Research & Chemical Engineering, in 1996, after completing her PhD in analytical chemistry at the University of Hanover.