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Dr. Harry W. C. Raaijmakers was born in 1962 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He received his M.S. in Chemistry in January 1988 at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. In 1993 he finished his PhD on carbohydrate chemistry at the same university under the supervision of Professor B. Zwanenburg. From 1993 to 1995 he performed a post-doc at the section Food Chemistry and Food Microbiology of the University of Wageningen, working on the analysis and degradation of cell wall polysaccharides with Professor A. G. J. Voragen.
From 1995 until now he is working at the Cosun Food Technology Centre, Roosendaal, The Netherlands. As program manager non-food, he coordinates a number of projects aimed at the development of non-food applications of agricultural side streams. Examples are the development of building blocks for the chemical industry and an environmentally friendly anti-scalant, carboxymethyl inulin. www.cosunbiobased.com
