Thomas Herget

Merck Millipore R&D Head

​Prof. Dr. Thomas Herget is currently Head of Processing Technologies within the Merck Millipore process solutions division of Merck KGaA, where he develops new methods and materials for bioprocessing. He is also a medical professor at the University of Mainz and a biochemistry professor at the TU Darmstadt. He has received several awards, submitted 25 patents and authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. From 2004-2010, Prof. Dr. Thomas Herget served as the Director, New Technology Evaluation within Merck KGaA’s Chemicals R&D division. In that role, he ran laboratories in Darmstadt (Germany) and oversaw the R&D activities of Novagen (Madison) and Calbiochem (San Diego).