Hans-Peter has worked for over 30 years in pro- and eukaryotic (including mammalian cell) biotechnology focused on R&D, process development and production. Besides his work with Lonza, he has a mandate in the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency CTI "Life Sciences" expert team and is cofounder of the "Swiss Industrial Biocatalysis Consortium" (SIBC). He received his education and PhD degree at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), was visiting Scientist at the SFI in Stockholm (Sweden), post doctoral fellow in the USA at the University of Pennsylvania and at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA). From 1982 to 1986, he was a group leader and lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich prior to joining the chemical development department as bioprocess engineer at Lonza in 1986.