Katrin Schuhen

After completing her doctorate in chemistry in 2007 (Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg), Dr. Katrin Schuhen worked in medical technology and in polymer production industry before setting up her own research group as part of her Junior Professorship for Organic and Ecological Chemistry at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (2012- 2018). Since then, she has been working on new material classes for the removal of microplastics and micropollutants from all kinds of water as well as on their detection, reuse, and digitized process control.
In May 2020, she founded Wasser 3.0 gGmbH as a non-profit Greentech company working for water without microplastics and micropollutants in innovation transfer, scaling, and growth as well as in research, education and awareness raising. Together with her team, she developed the world´s first fast and efficient monitoring toolbox and analytical method for microplastics and innovated the Clump & Skim Technology for microplastic removal and reuse.
Beside many awards for the technology innovation, Dr. Katrin Schuhen was awarded as one of the TOP 100 women in social enterprises (Euclid Network, 2023). In addition to many scientific articles, she published her first non-fiction book in October 2024 with the title: “Rebellin des Wassers”, Scorpio Verlag, Germany.