Thomas Müller-Späth, Dr. sc. ETH, Dipl.-Ing., is CEO and co-founder of ChromaCon AG, a YMC company. Thomas studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg, Germany, and at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). Thomas gained further R&D experience at Bayer Healthcare in Berkeley, CA (USA), and Beiersdorf AG, Hamburg (GER). He obtained his PhD in multi-column-technology for the purification of proteins at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in the group of Prof. Morbidelli in 2008. Thomas is inventor of several patents and has authored numerous scientific articles on continuous chromatography for biopharmaceuticals.