Overview
Tine Schaerlaekens is Managing Director of Catalisti, a role she took up in January 2024. She is based in Brussels.
She spent more than a decade at essenscia, joining in June 2010 as project leader for BioChem and Eco2Chem before becoming advisor for renewables and biotechnology in March 2012, senior advisor on innovation policy in August 2015, and director of innovation from April 2021 until December 2023. In parallel, from March 2012 to March 2021, she worked as a catalyst at Catalisti.
Earlier she was a project leader at VIB in the first half of 2010. Her career began at KU Leuven, where she was a PhD student from August 1999 to April 2003 and then a researcher until December 2009. She studied biotechnology at KU Leuven, gaining a Master of Engineering in 1999.
Career history
In the news
- At Catalisti & Moonshot Day 2026, Tine Schaerlaekens (Catalisti) will officially unveil the renewed Innovation Roadmap for the chemicals and plastics industry in Flanders. Developed in close collaboration with stakeholders across the value chain, this roadmap sets out Catalisti's innovation priorities for the coming years and introduces seven technical programmes along one value chain. Want to be among the first to discover the new roadmap? Join us in Ghent! 📅 Tuesday 24 November · The Plectrum, Ghent 🎟️ Free for Catalisti
- Today marked the official start of construction of BlueChem PORT, the second site of the BlueChem incubator for sustainable chemistry. By expanding to the NextGen District in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, BlueChem aims to further bridge the gap between research and the industrial deployment of innovative, sustainable chemical technologies. The ceremony took place in the presence of Matthias Diependaele, Minister-President of Flanders, and Johan Klaps, Antwerp Alderman for Port and Economy. Tine Schaerlaekens, Managing Director of
- Join us for Catalisti & Moonshot Day 2026: The Next Decade On 24 November 2026, Catalisti and Moonshot Flanders will bring together Flanders' chemical and plastics innovation ecosystem at The Plectrum (Ghent) to look a decade ahead. This year's edition is titled 'The Next Decade', as it marks the launch of Catalisti's renewed Innovation Roadmap, which will shape the innovation programmes and priorities of our organisation for the years ahead. Programme & registration: https://lnkd.in/ebSeX5-C Programme overview 🔵 10:00 -
- Thank you, CAPTURE. Yesterday Tine Schaerlaekens took part in the plenary debate during the CAPTURE Day 2026 at VITO in Mol: "Circularity will never be competitive(?)" — intended as something of a provocation for the panelists. Thanks to Jan Arends (CAPTURE) for moderating, and to fellow panellists Isabel Vermeulen (BlueChem), Prof. Pieter Billen (University of Antwerp) and Ludo Diels (A.SPIRE) for a lively exchange. As one of Europe's most integrated chemical clusters, Flanders does not start from zero. Industrial symbiosis and
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