Jan-Georg Rosenboom

Jan-Georg is a Chemical Engineer with a focus on designing polymers for people and the planet. As a postdoc in the Langer and Traverso Labs at MIT, he uses polymer chemistry to advance sustainable plastic technologies and create novel drug delivery devices against a variety of diseases. Besides that, he works with the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) and is a plastics sustainability consultant for several major companies. He is also a recent TEDx speaker, and co-founded EquipSent in Switzerland, a social startup that organizes lab equipment transfers to low-income countries with the aim to “Enable Education Everywhere”.