ASA Spezialenzyme GmbH offers solutions for a broad range of applications – enzymes for quicker biogas production, enzymes for rust removal or enzymes for the production of new biopolymers in cars. The company has been coming up with innovative ideas for the biotechnology market ever since it was established in 1991.

Tanja Weil travelled across half the globe in order to be able to start her new position as the head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry III (Macromolecular Chemistry and Organic Materials) at the University of Ulm on 1 May 2010. Prior to her current position, the 36-year-old chemist was associate professor at the renowned National University of Singapore and is now trying to bridge her discipline with the disciplines of biology, medicine and the materials sciences with research on biohybrid molecules.