Rik is a highly experience member of the Sartorius lab ultrafiltration team with over 20 years of experience in product and application research and development, production engineering and technical guidance. Rik currently heads the production engineering team, ensuring optimal device manufacturing processes are implemented and managed at both prototyping and fully fledged production line levels. Throughout his career with Vivascience and then Sartorius, Rik has remained as the subject matter expert for technical support and application knowledge, with strong expertise in therapeutic protein, drug delivery nanoparticle, and diagnostic marker concentration applications, with centrifugal, pressure driven and lab scale tangential flow filtration systems.