"Clean, Green and Lean, the three keywords for a sustainable (bio)chemical industry."

To serve that goal, Marleen Claeys is business developer for STEP-Chem VUB Department of Chemical Engineering. Her focus is the positioning and valorization of innovative separation technologies for sustainable recovery of high-valuable resource streams and removal of hard-to-abate chemicals in industry.  

In CAPTURE, Marleen is part of daily board management with focus on valorization of academic research across institutes and pipelines. As by CAPTURE tagline "Together we become circular", she drives the collaboration of busdev/innovation profiles (BD-cell) and EU-project experts (EU-cell) as well keeps priority and action-tracking for multidisciplinary flagship projects. All this to jointly create impact on sustainable resource recovery of CO2, Plastics and Water.