Jakob Lange PhD

Jakob is an Engineer and Materials Scientist by training with an MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has written and published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers on medical devices, packaging materials, and polymers and is a regular contributor to technical and scientific conferences.

Jakob started his professional career as a Research Scientist in packaging R&D with Nestlé at the Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. He then worked in R&D Management with GE Healthcare Biosciences in Uppsala, Sweden, before joining Ypsomed in Burgdorf in 2006. With Ypsomed he has held different positions within Marketing and Sales as well as in R&D Project Management. Currently, he has the role of Senior Director in M&S Delivery Systems, overseeing a team of Product Managers with a focus on managing customer relationships in device development projects as well as for marketed device products.