Doug Heemstra
Phone: 616-395-8958 Heemstra has extensive experience in process automation and system optimization in a chemical manufacturing setting. Having worked for companies including Pfizer, Corium, Amgen, and most recently Mead Johnson Nutrition, he has led large teams and multi-million dollar projects. A graduate of Aquinas College, he earned bachelor’s degrees in both chemistry and mathematics, then went on to complete a master’s degree…
Tom Guarr
Tom Guarr is director of Research and Development at the Organic Energy Storage Laboratory at the Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute-Holland. His current research is focused on using organic materials for various types of electrical energy storage. Examples of ongoing projects include work toward the use of conductive polymers as active supercapacitor materials, the synthesis of “redox shuttles” to prevent overcharging in…
Tom Bauer
Tom Bauer started his career with PPG Industries working as a Technical Services/Development Engineer focused primarily on herbicide process development. In 1984, he moved to Holland, Michigan, to work for Parke‐Davis as an Area Manager in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient manufacturing. Through his 25 years with Parke‐Davis/Pfizer, Tom advanced to lead the Environmental, Health and Safety and Materials Management Departments. In 2009, he…
Robert J. Hanchar
Dr. Robert Hanchar is a project manager and senior scientist at MSUBI-Lansing. He holds more than twenty years of industrial experience in the development of recovery and purification processes as well as extensive experience in analytical chemistry. He received both his Bachelor of Science degree and Doctoral degree in synthetic organic chemistry from Michigan State University. While in college, Bob also worked…
Susanne Kleff
Dr. Susanne Kleff earned both a master’s degree and PhD in Biology from the University of Cologne–Germany. Her studies focused on characterizing recombination enzymes and genes from Bacteriophage T4 and yeast. At the State University in New York at Stony Brook, Susanne completed her postdoc fellowship, identifying and cloning the first histone acetyltransferase in yeast. Later at Michigan State University, Susanne assisted…
