BASF will donate $7 million toward the construction of a new
state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary research chemistry facility at
the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Research
conducted in the new “Berkeley Science and Engineering Hub” will
converge the expertise of chemists, biologists, engineers, computer
scientists, ecologists, social scientists, policy experts,
economists, entrepreneurs and industry and civic leaders.
Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive
Directors and Chief Technology Officer, BASF SE, announced the
donation as part of his keynote lecture at the California Research
Alliance (CARA) 2018 Summer Symposium, held this week at the Chabot
Space & Science Center in Oakland, California. A signing
ceremony confirming BASF’s corporate donation was held on the UC
Berkeley campus.
“As part of CARA, BASF is connected to one of the leading global
hubs for innovation,” said Brudermüller. “With our donation, we
demonstrate our commitment to research in collaboration with our
academic partners at CARA that will lead to innovations to improve
daily life.”
“This collaboration represents the perfect intersection of
industry and academic research,” said Douglas Clark, Dean, College
of Chemistry, UC Berkeley. “BASF's continued commitment to UC
Berkeley and the larger CARA effort, and their support of vital
infrastructure needs on the Berkeley campus, shows that it is
increasingly possible to merge our combined goals for even greater
impact.”
The CARA 2018 Summer Symposium brings together a select group of
academics and BASF scientists to celebrate BASF's commitment to
California universities, the CARA program and how industry and
academia can use science and technology to generate optimism about
solving global challenges.
CARA is one of four BASF scientific excellence clusters that
collaborate with research groups on a regional level, maintaining a
network between BASF, the campuses of the University of California
system, Stanford and Caltech. The researchers at CARA work in a
variety of scientific disciplines including new materials,
biosciences, formulations, and catalysis, as well as computational
and engineering disciplines.
Five BASF researchers based at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego work
hand in hand with university scientists. The collaboration started
in 2014 with 10 postdoctoral positions and has extended to
approximately 25 postdoctoral positions today. So far, CARA’s
researchers have filed 10 patents, and more than 20 peer-reviewed
papers have been accepted or published. In addition, the first
research projects have already transferred to BASF R&D for
further development.
“BASF's partnership with the universities of CARA has fostered a
relationship built on innovation, cooperation and trust,” said
Kerstin Schierle-Arndt, Vice President of Research Inorganic
Materials and Synthesis, BASF, and Associate Director, CARA. “Since
its inception in 2014, our research teams have worked on 45
projects together, and we look forward to collaborating on future
ideas and projects.”
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Suggested caption: Martin Brudermüller, BASF
CEO, and Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, committed to a $7 million donation from BASF to UC
Berkeley for the construction of a new research chemistry facility.
Brudermüller and Alivisatos were accompanied by (front left)
Douglas Clark, UC Berkeley Dean, College of Chemistry, and (front
right) Irene Kim, UC Berkeley Associate Vice Chancellor –
Advancement. Also attending the signing ceremony (back, left to
right): Martin Strohrmann, BASF Senior Vice President,
Digitalization in Research & Development; Kerstin
Schierle-Arndt, Co-Director, CARA, and BASF Vice President,
Inorganic Materials and Synthesis; Hartmann Leube, BASF Senior Vice
President, New Technologies; Harald Lauke, BASF President, Advanced
Materials & Systems Research; Gray Davis, former California
governor; Carol Christ, UC Berkeley Chancellor; Janet Napolitano,
President, University of California; Peter Schuhmacher, BASF
President, Process Research & Chemical Engineering; Peidong
Yang, Co-Director, CARA, and UC Berkeley researcher; and Benjamin
Knudsen, BASF head of White Biotechnology for North America.
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Suggested caption: Martin Brudermüller, CEO and
CTO, BASF SE, announced a $7 million donation from BASF to UC
Berkeley at the 2018 CARA Summer Symposium.
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Suggested caption: Martin Brudermüller, CEO and
CTO, BASF (center), spoke alongside (left to right) Prof. Glenn
Fredrickson, UC Santa Barbara; Dr. Will Zeng, Rigetti Computing;
Prof. Daniel Kammen, UC Berkeley; and David Schaberg, Dean of
Humanities, UCLA, during a panel discussion, “How can industry and
academia generate optimism in science and technology?” at the 2018
CARA Summer Symposium.
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