Invite Science Day 2025
Innovations, Visions, & Technologies 2025
15 years INVITE
3 key topic streams will address sustainability research, smart automation & drug delivery technologies and how they contribute and drive innovation.
On July 9th 2025 INVITE opens the doors for a one-day event where young INVITE scientists & engineers give insights into their current research.
We are happy to celebrate at this occasion also the 15th anniversary of INVITE !
All our cooperation partners are invited to join and celebrate with us!
The scientific programme of the day will also offer you an overview on the newest areas of innovation in the respective research fields of INVITE and you'll be albe to get in touch with the young talents to discuss with them their newest research results.
You are invited to join and benefit from this great opportunity for exhange, networking and to celebrate with us 15 years of INVITE !
Find the online links to the respective sessions below.
Click on the respective box to enter the session.
Confirmed speakers are:
Key Notes:
- 15 Years INVITE - Members of INVITE Shareholders & Supervisory Board (hybrid)
- Dr. Axel Trautwein, Bayer AG, Research & Development, Crop Science - Head of Regulatory Science
- Dr. Marcus Paul Grün, Bayer AG, Crop Science - Active Ingredient Manufacturing, Head of Crop Protection Innovation
- Dr. Martin Goch, MBA, Chancellor, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schembecker, Vice President, Technical University Dortmund
- AI-Enabled Design of Living Organisms: Opportunities & Threads - AI is upturning the world of synthetic biology and overwhelming traditional governance instruments (hybrid)
- Dr. Marget Engelhard, Head of Division Bundesamt für Naturschutz GMO Regulation, Bonn, Germany
Drug Delivery:
- The hidden crux of determining and using logP values
- Prof. Dr. Gabriele Sadowski, TU Dortmund University, Director of Laboratory for Thermodynamics, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Smart Automation:
- ACT Smart: Robotizing Cell Therapy
- Subash Ramamoorthy, Bayer Pharma AG, CMC & Technology, Process Control & Lab Automation
- Multipurpose Lab Robotics- one robot for many tasks!
- Marius Kling & Dr. Jonne Jeyalingam, INVITE GmbH, Future Manufacturing Concepts
- Modular Automation - It's 2025, Not 1995
- Dr. Torben Miny, RWTH Aachen, Senior Researcher
- Michael Winter, RWTH Aachen, Researcher
Sustainability Research:
- Together We Rise: When Startups and Corporates Converge
- Dr. Karl Collins, Head of Open Innovation & Ecosystems for Europe, Bayer Crop Science
- Dr. Alireza Ahmadi, Founder and CEO of DynamoBot GmbH, Uni-Bonn Spin-off
Further speakers will be announced soon.
Please, check this page for updated information & the final program. Please use the link below to
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Please safe the date (July 9th, 2025) for this event.
INVITE is a Public-private partnership of Bayer, TU Dortmund University, and HHU Düsseldorf founded in 2010.
Experts bridge the remeaning gap between academic insights and industrial applications. INVITE is the
- Research center for innovative production technologies with a focus on smart automation, formulation technology and sustainability research.
- leads the Drug Delivery Innovation Center, an open consortium between partners from the pharmaceutical industry, machine and service providers, and academia.