Oscar van den Brink

As group leader of spectroscopy and process analysis with AkzoNobel, Oscar van den Brink observed that innovation and human capital were both crucial for success. Earlier in his career as PhD student and coordinator of a European research project at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, where he combined novel mass spectrometric techniques with the research of works of art, Oscar noticed that the range of application areas that benefit from analytical science is very broad. Since late 2010, as managing director of COAST, he has been executing COAST’s integrated strategic agenda of research, education and infrastructure. “I am very happy to now be in the position, together with my two co-directors, to enhance collaboration in analytical science among companies and knowledge institutes in many application areas.”