This time, Julia Lyubina from Evonik will discuss how a global specialty chemicals company like Evonik turns scientific insight into sustainable industrial solutions.

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In this talk, Julia Lyubina will discuss how a global specialty chemicals company such as Evonik turns scientific insight into sustainable industrial solutions. Drawing on her own trajectory from academic research in materials to product and business development in industry, she will illustrate how promising results are identified, matured, and translated into applications with real market and societal value.

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Julia Lyubina graduated from the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS” in Moscow. She then joined Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden) to conduct her PhD work on permanent magnet materials. After receiving her PhD in Physics at the TU Dresden, she worked at the IFW Dresden and as a Marie Curie Fellow at Imperial College London in the field of magnetocaloric materials and electrochemistry. In 2012, Julia transitioned her expertise to the industry by joining Evonik in Hanau, Germany. Over the years, she successfully navigated through various roles in Process Technology, Strategy & New Growth Business and Research, Development & Innovation, focusing on new product and new business development. She led the development and commercialization of Siridion® Black materials for lithium-ion battery anodes as Head of Global New Business Development at the Business Line Silanes. In her current role as Head of Academic Partnerships at Evonik, Julia is responsible for forging and steering cross-functional teams from academia and industry. Beyond her corporate commitments, she holds a Visiting Professorship in “Sustainable Energy Storage and Conversion” in the group of Prof. Oliver Gutfleisch at TU Darmstadt, where she sets up a new research domain on magnetic electrocatalysts for hydrogen production.