Dirk Leister is a marketing manager for extruders and compounders at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Karlsruhe, Germany. Together with the product line team he focuses on applications for extrusion-based processes used in the pharmaceutical, food, and polymer industries. Dirk holds an engineering degree in biotechnology and started his professional career in pharmaceutical research and development. After moving to the instrument manufacturing side of the industry, he had several positions in technical sales and product management. His expertise is developing applications for process equipment used to conduct formulation research, process development and manufacturing scale-up for pharmaceutical and bulk material handling. Dirk is adept at helping companies minimize optimization time, costs and efforts of their continuous process scale-up.
