Paulien Harmsen is senior scientist Sustainable Textiles and technical lead for the Sustainable Textiles Programme at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. She works on circular and sustainable textiles and fashion fossil-free textiles, textile recycling and biobased fibres.
Paulien Harmsen has a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Twente, specialising in material science. She is also co-founder of Anderlus, an organisation that helps waste-producers to find a solution for their waste and gives designers and product developer’s building blocks to create the next generation of circular products made from sheets, granulate or 3D filament.
