Rutger Douma holds an MSc from Wageningen University in Bioprocess Technology and obtained his PhD at Delft University of Technology on penicillin fermentations. Rutger worked for 6 years at Novozymes, Denmark, scaling up enzyme production fermentation and downstream processes from lab via pilot to production scale. Since 2016 Rutger is working for Janssen in Leiden, The Netherlands. Rutger has held roles with increasing responsibility in Technical Operations and Operations for large molecule production processes and is currently Director Vaccines Process Science, providing technical leadership and expertise to Janssen’s vaccines manufacturing platform.