Thorsten Schierle is the Director for Applied Technology Inks, Digital, and New Applications at Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH in Essen, Germany. Prior to joining Evonik in 2011, he worked for more than 11 years at the liquid printing inks site of Sun Chemical/DIC in Niederhausen, Germany, where he mainly dealt with water-based packaging inks and inks for decorative applications (wallpaper, furniture, etc.). He studied chemistry in Mainz, Germany and Toronto, Canada.