novoMOF was founded in February 2017 at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) to provide an unique production process for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). This enables us to produce at the required speed, scale and quality.
We aim to support innovation in various industries by providing high-quality MOFs and individual consulting solutions.
Enabling companies to lead innovation with MOFs.
novoMOF was founded in February 2017 at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) to provide an unique production process for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). This enables us to produce at the required speed, scale and quality.
We aim to support innovation in various industries by providing high-quality MOFs and individual consulting solutions.
novoMOF – the company
Founded at the Paul Scherrer Institut, the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences within Switzerland, we have access to latest technology and highly qualified personnel. The team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) has profound synthetic and technology expertise on metal-organic frameworks and is supported by a distinguished set of scientific advisors and board members.
Our MOF production facilities are located on the production site and headquarter of Siegfried AG, a global life sciences company active in primary and secondary drug manufacturing, in the heart of Switzerland‘s industrial canton Aargau.

Our Team
Daniel Steitz
Founder & CIO
MSc ETH in Chemical and
Bioengineering
Daniel is founder and Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of novoMOF AG. He holds a master degree in Chemical and Bioengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and has been working in the group of Professor Jeroen A. van Bokhoven. Before incorporating novoMOF AG, Daniel worked at the Paul Scherrer Institute on metal-organic frameworks under the supervision of Dr. Marco Ranocchiari.
Cristina Lendvai
Marketing Manager
MSc in Business Administration
BSc in Marketing
Cristina is the Marketing Manager of novoMOF AG. She holds a MSc degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO). Cristina has multiple years of experience across various industries with proven success in strategy development, event organisation, community management, content marketing, website development, SEO, email marketing and PPC campaigns.
Wilhelm Steitz
CFO
Dipl.-Ing. TUM
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Wilhelm is the Chief Financial Officer of novoMOF AG. He holds a diploma degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology Munich (TUM). Wilhelm has been active in various senior management positions in leading American software companies where he has been driving worldwide business operations.
Charles Toft
CTO
Dr. Sc. Supramolecular Chemistry
MSc Chemistry
Charles is the Chief Technology Officer of novoMOF AG. With a PhD in supramolecular chemistry, Charles has been gaining further experience in material development for application-specific processes. In his role, he provides technical and chemical knowledge, and further advances our production expertise.
Anna Chomiak
Application Engineer
Dr. sc. ETH Process Engineering
MSc in Engineering
Anna has 14 years of industrial and R&D experience in fields related to environmental and process engineering. This broad range includes development of polymers for desalination and oilfield (BWA Water Additives), mass transfer limitations on membrane systems (biofouling) at EAWAG / ETH Zürich, and sorbents & pigments based on calcium carbonate (Omya). For novoMOF, Anna is involved customer projects as well as internal process developments.

Oliver Maurer
Lab & Production Specialist
Chemie- und Pharmatechnologe EFZ
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Oliver is responsible for the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks at lab and production scale. He has a sound background in the production of intermediates and active ingredients (non HiPo – HiPo Kat. 3). With his broad experience in the development of ingredients at pilot scale, he optimises the yield of our syntheses while increasing the quality of our MOFs.

Scientific advisors
We work with thought-leaders on metal-organic frameworks to further enhance our services. Through our scientific advisors, we have access to the most innovative researchers in the field of metal-organic frameworks.

Board

Support
novoMOF is a Swiss-based MOF company and is sponsoring important conferences in the field:
- 3rd International Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF2019) in Paris, France
- 13th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA2019) in Cairns, Australia
- 6th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds (MOF2018) in Auckland, New Zealand
- 2nd European Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF2017) in Delft, the Netherlands
- 5th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds (MOF 2016) in Los Angeles, USA
As a spinoff from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), novoMOF is supported by SwissCompanyMaker, the Swiss Technology Award and the >>venture>> foundation.
