Daniela Ferrari

Daniela Ferrari is currently an Associate Director in Packaging, Specialty Plastics & Hydrocarbons R&D located in Freeport, Texas. Daniela joined Dow Benelux, the Netherlands, in 2005 and worked on alcohol dehydration and octene production technology. From 2008 to 2013 she led the global Syngas to Alcohols research effort. In 2011, Daniela relocated from Terneuzen to Freeport, within Hydrocarbons R&D. In 2013, she became the Process R&D Group Leader in Epoxy R&D. In 2014 she joined Performance Plastics R&D where she later became the leader of the Process Fundamentals group. Since 2018 Daniela has been a leader in the New Process Technology Development group in Hydrocarbons R&D and she is responsible for the Circulating Fluid Bed platform, Carbon Mitigation and Separations Technology. Daniela earned a degree in Industrial Chemistry from Parma University, Italy and a PhD in Polymer Chemistry from Max-Plank Institute, Germany.