Christine Uplegger has been supporting the accounts department in our Munich headquarters since August. She has many years’ experience in this area, working in various sectors and regions. She completed her training in wholesale and foreign trade in Freiburg i. Br.
Dr Petra Köhler joined Ascenion as a Technology Manager in October. Based in our Braunschweig office, she will support the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (ATB) in all aspects of technology transfer.
Petra Köhler brings over 15 years of industry experience to the team. She previously worked as Head of Marketing for a manufacturer in the cosmetics industry, as CEO of a start-up company, and as Technology Manager at the patent commercialization agency Brainshell. During this time, she initiated and negotiated numerous cooperation and licensing agreements, as both licensee and licenser. Most recently she worked at DECHEMA in Frankfurt for the Association of German Biotechnology Companies (VBU), where she established an online technology transfer platform and a webinar series on industrial property rights. She also managed the VBU Business Network for Women Managers in Life Sciences.
Petra Köhler studied Chemistry at Braunschweig, Marburg und Bologna universities, and gained a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Marburg. During her career she has also completed a course in industrial property rights from the FernUniversität Hagen and a management training course at the Technische Universität Berlin.
