ir. PFH (Paulien) Harmsen

Paulien Harmsen works as senior scientist ‘Sustainable Textiles’ at Wageningen UR Food and Biobased Research. She also works as Expert for the EU. She has a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Twente, specialized in material science and polymer science. She has more than 25 years of experience in the field of biomass pretreatment and biorefinery for applications in biobased products (materials and chemicals). She is editor of the series “Groene Grondstoffen”, a series of publications on the use of agro commodities and secondary residue streams for consumer and industrial markets. Since 2018 she is connected to the Sustainable Textiles Program at WUR (Circular Fashion Lab). In the spirit of ‘practise what you preach’, she created her own fossil-free wardrobe, made from sustainable materials only. She is committed to combine her background on material science and biomass conversion to make the textile sector more sustainable.

https://research.wur.nl/en/persons/paulien-harmsen

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