{"id":59205,"date":"2018-12-17T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=59205"},"modified":"2018-12-14T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:55:08","slug":"michael-carus-person-of-the-year-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/michael-carus-person-of-the-year-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carus \u2013 Person of the Year 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a logic decision to appoint Michael Carus as person of the year 2018. Michael has been the driving force behind the German and European Bioplastics movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Carus was born on 15 October 1956 in Cologne and grew up in Wuppertal, Germany. He\u2019s the descendant of the famous German\u00a0physiologist\u00a0and painter Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869). Michael studied physics and mathematics in Cologne and graduated in 1983.<\/p>\n

His dedication to the environmental cause was visible from the early start as he became manager of the ecology department of the student\u2019s organisation of his university.<\/p>\n

Michael continued on his ecological journey by becoming a teacher at the University of T\u00fcbingen and covered topics like ecology, nuclear energy and radioactivity (1983-1990).<\/p>\n

It took some time before Michael found his way as he worked as a science journalist, a scientist, an IT manager and a public relations practitioner.<\/p>\n

Michael\u2019s career took a turn in 1994 when he co-founded the Nova Institut, the leading German bioplastics innovation organisation.<\/p>\n

Michael published many reports and policy papers\u00a0and is considered as one of the leading experts in agricultural resources and industrial materials. Michael has also been involved in the European industrial hemp sector and has been the driving force behind the liberalisation of hemp in Europe.<\/p>\n

Michael is a legend and an inspiration. He was the first scientist and service provider to commercially breakthrough in the bioplastics industry. He\u2019s the founding father and the driving force of the German bioplastics movement, knowing that Germany is one of the driving nations of the European bioplastics scene. The German and European bioplastics industry wouldn\u2019t have been the same without Michael\u2019s dedication and commitment.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m personally grateful to\u00a0Michael as he invited me to my first bioplastics conference, the \u201cInternational Conference on biobased materials\u201d which many say is the\u00a0most important bioplastics event of the year. Michael was\u00a0 also the first person that I interviewed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s congratulate Michael for his great achievements and for the time, energy and dedication spent to bring the bioplastics sector where it is today.<\/p>\n

Happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in Cologne at the next International Conference on biobased Materials.<\/p>\n

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PS \u2013 We managed to find rare pictures of Michael!<\/p>\n

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