DSM Personal Care has appointed Dr Thomas Rudolph as global head of research & development and member of its management team.
Thomas Rudolph has more than fifteen years’ experience in the personal care industry. Since 1997 he has served in senior research and development positions in Sara Lee and Merck KGaA where he was responsible for various projects in the product evaluation and cosmetics actives fields. He was chairman of the Colipa (now Cosmetics Europe) Task Force ‘Monitoring of UV light sources’ and is a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte und wissenschaftliche Kosmetik (DGK) Task Force for sun care products. Thomas graduated from the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany in Food Chemistry and holds a doctorate degree (PhD) in Photochemistry and Analytics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
