Uli Osterwalder

Uli Osterwalder studied chemical engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. He joined Ciba-Geigy in Basel in 1979 where he first developed a phosgene generator in central process development. He later developed his leadership skills in project management and process analytics. At Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Uli Osterwalder helped establish new business areas in Fabric Care and Personal Care.
After the acquisition by BASF SE, he became Senior Marketing Manager and Scientific Advisor in Sun Care business in Ludwigshafen and Duesseldorf.
In 2016 Uli Osterwalder returned to Basel and worked for DSM as Senior Scientific Adviser Suncare for two years. In 2018, he founded his own company, Sun Protection Facilitator GmbH, and is committed to further improvements in sun protection. Uli Osterwalder has been working for ISO on the development of new UV protection assessment methods since
2006 and has been chairing the Technical Committee for Cosmetics (ISO TC 217) since 2020. He is author and co-author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters on sun protection and is also co-editor of a series of papers on Challenges in Sun Protection in Current Problems in Dermatology, published by KARGER, Basel in 2021.