Marcel van Eijk has been the R&D Manager at NTCP since 2021. His work focuses on research programmes centered around the characterisation, sorting, and washing of circular plastics. In addition to his role at NTCP, he also spends one day a week as an associate professor in circular plastics at Maastricht University.
Marcel has extensive experience in both academic and industrial research, particularly in the fields of chemistry and physics. He serves as the technical lead for the Perfect Sorting Consortium, which is currently developing an AI-based sorting demonstrator for application-driven recycling of packaging plastics.