Curriculum vitae 

Personal data

• Names:  Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Plaas-Link
• Address: Am Wilzenberg 32, 57392 Grafschaft
• Born:      1950 in Bad Berleburg

Education and early years

• 1961–1963: Attendance at the boarding school Schloss Wittgenstein near Bad Laasphe
• 1965–1969: Visit to the Landerziehungsheim Schloss Bieberstein near Fulda
• 1969–1970: Worked in urology and surgery at the Jung-Stilling Hospital in Siegen
• 1970:            Start of studies at the Ruhr University Bochum in the Faculty of Medicine
• 1972–1978:  Scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• 1978:            Medical license at the University of Essen
• 1978–1980: Medical activities at the Bergmannsheil University Hospital and the Marienhospital in Bochum
• 1980:           Doctorate in biology at the University of Essen
• PhD thesis: "The importance of CO₂ oscillations in arterial blood for the control of respiration"

Career

• 1980–1983: University Assistant (C1) in the Department of Physiology at the University of Bochum
• 1984–1985: Research stay at Middlesex Hospital in London
• Research on the importance of arterial CO₂ oscillations for respiratory and circulatory control

Industry 

• 1985–1987: Conception, development and production of digital drums for the company SONOR
• Market launch of the system in 1986
• 1987–1993: Head of research of a European consortium with 99 partners from large-scale industry
• Investigations under microgravity in the fields of life sciences and chemistry
• 1995: Founding of PSA GmbH
• Company for protein crystallization and X-ray structure analysis in cooperation with DESY-Hamburg
• 2000: The company is renamed inventions.de GmbH
• Development and exploitation of technical solutions
• 2001–2007: Founding of test.com and cash-test.com GmbH
• Development and construction of microprocessor-controlled banknote detectors
• Production of 30,000 devices
• 2007–2012: Patent application for a form-fit gripper
• Prototype construction of the gripper system for robots, forklifts and lifting systems
• 2008: Presentation of an innovation prize at AUTOMATICA 2008
• 2011: Awarding of the HERMES AWARD to the Fa. inventions.de GmbH
• 2012–2014: Consultant to companies in the field of automation of manufacturing processes
• 2008–2025: Patent applications from a number of own developments
  
  
  

Fields of work and projects in science

1980–1985: Investigations into the coupling of respiration and circulation

• Development of new measurement methods for pH, pO₂ and pCO₂ measurement in flowing media with mass spectrometers (quadrupoles)
• Development and patent application of a method for the determination and compensation of frequency responses of physicochemical-electrical converters (German and US patent granted)
• Development of an electrode system with a very short setting time for blood gas analysis
• Nerve cell recordings and computer-aided online evaluation
• Development of a new method for measuring activity in neuronal structures (unfinished due to the move to industry)

Research and development projects in industry

With SONOR (1985–1986)

• Management and development of an electronic drum kit in German-Japanese cooperation
• Market launch of the system in 1986

At INTOSPACE (1987–1992)

• Development and construction of a new method for the crystallization of proteins for structural analysis
• Leading a research project on protein crystallization in space
• Carrying out 4 missions on Chinese and Soviet carriers
• Participation of European and Japanese industrial companies and 32 scientists
• Design of a new method for the separation of chemical and biological substances by electric fields at boundary layers
• Implementation of 3 international symposia and workshops on space-related topics

Patents and applications (selection)

• 2024: Patent application for a method for the reversible self-erection of vertical structures
• 2024: New refuelling and transfer technology for hydrogen and other gases
• 2024: Firefighting with inert gases (PCT application successful)
• 2024: Safe gas storage for hydrogen and other gases
• 2022: Patent application for a new type of ship propulsion system
• 2021: Patent application for a flywheel storage system for bicycles
• 2021: Concept for Earth Shading to End Global Warming
• 2019: Development of a system for the prevention of personal injury in the event of accidents
• 2018: Structural build-up and degradation due to changes in the low-temperature range
• 2017: Energy storage using magnetic levitation
• 2016: Development of a PDA for recording personal data
• 2015: Aluminum expander for lifting loads
• 2015: Design of an effective outdoor radiant heater
• 2011: Design of a system for the suppression of background noise in rooms
• 2011: Concept for monitoring rooms with optical and acoustic signals (patent pending)
• 2010: New transmission for hybrid vehicles (Audi had already applied for a patent in 2008)
• 2007: Development of a system for stabilizing oil platforms, wind turbines and buoys on the seabed with flexible structures
• 2001–2006: Development, patent application and partial production of a gripper system for robots, forklifts and lifting systems (patent application unfortunately cancelled due to imminent insolvency)
• 2000: Development, patenting and production of banknote detectors for various currencies (30,000 devices produced)
• 2000: Development of a novel bioreactor (US and German patents granted)
• 2000: Design of a pump for the blood circulation without mechanics
• 2000: Allergy test based on iontophoresis
• 1999: New method for flow measurement
• 1998: Development of an aluminum-based energy storage system (presentation at RWE)
• 1998: Method for the Representation of Flows in Gases with Dye Lasers
• 1998: Development of freshness systems for food with inert gases (patent pending)
• 1996: Development of an emergency call system based on handheld telephones (patent granted)
• 1992: Development of a novel concept for pumps and motors with elliptical rotating pistons (patent pending)
• 1988: Method for membrane-free separation of flowing liquids (US and German patent granted)

more ideas and concepts

• Cable reel (2015), 8-mile boot (2001), cleaning by oxygen-hydrogen reaction (2007), catheter without risk of infection (2018),

   fast 3D manufacturing (2025)

Answer to my friends, who could only write to me in 2020 for my 70th birthday  due to CORONA.

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for the kind comments on the 70-year-old, who, like so many things in the current virtuality, is difficult to reach in real life. A certain transfiguration seems to be inevitable in such unreal times. The contributions to my person would not have happened eye to eye in this way. I have tried little successfully to find agreement with myself in the description of the Praised One. In addition to an undisputed entertainment value, I can perceive it indulgently, as not only unrealistic.

I suspect that I obviously give off a large number of signals, which, since they are difficult to interpret, initially ended in a benevolent perception. I now know that it will take at least another 20 years to bring some things closer to the truth again. So it is an irrefutable task to get more involved with each other in the future in order to make something of what you lovingly anticipated as a conceivable personality development come true.

But now let me turn the "tables". Who tried to put me into terms and words in order to at least establish social compatibility? A general view of the praisers is certainly not correct and sensible. At least a large part of you well-wishers have a lot in common. I feel closeness and harmony with a whole series of you. With others, I feel delightful passions or observe attitudes to life that I experience as exciting, provocative, sad, stimulating and every now and then really terrible.

About 20 years ago, I entered your world, which was very different from my cosmos at that time. Perhaps it is no coincidence that this phase of life began in Schloss Elmau of all places – my 2nd home, which has remained the only local constant since my childhood. There I came into contact with you, a group of young people who stood out above all because the content of your conversations was not limited to the already overwhelming special features of the Elmau and the mountains around the Wetterstein. You needed this backdrop to go far beyond that in your planning. It should later turn out to be a fairly uniform pattern for you that you always take on tasks that recognizably exceed your previous intentions. So never see an end, so as not to be at the end too quickly. This was a fascinating observation for me, as I met immodest contemporaries who did not even know that there were limits. I also personally knew excessiveness in the expectations of tomorrow – but this referred to my technical or scientific work and I was thus able to expand in my claim to amusement.

There was often low-conflict conversation content, such as planned or completed trips. However, these were already so captivating in their approaches that there was no danger of taking them unimportant as substitute topics of conversation. In these planning discussions, all locations on this planet were checked to see whether they would be appropriate as a further step in the optimal shaping of one's own destiny. Even altitude limits of 8000 m were not taboo. Many of you, whom I was allowed to meet, repeatedly subjected yourself professionally to a complete external determination, in order to then try out all the more unrestrained all the freedoms that had become financially feasible as a result. In addition, there was a certain skill to allow only one social environment that was not unnecessary? Braked.

At first, I had difficulty understanding why theatre, concerts and especially Bayreuth were of great importance in the choice of conversation in your social environment. As a selectively quarrelsome contemporary, I quickly had to learn that in the very heterogeneous circle around Daniela, intensive debates could only be avoided with great discipline. As I was able to learn, Bayreuth was of particular importance, as almost all of you have been there at some point in the last few years and therefore never had to listen helplessly. As someone who is between the older seniors and most of you due to his age, such a diplomatic, clever attitude was actually unknown to me and took some getting used to. However, the friendships with you, which I met for the first time at that time, still exist today and have obviously not been endangered by unsolicited statements on many things from my side.

In the beginning, I shifted the focus of my Frankfurt self-realization to my manageable skills as a chef. Unfortunately, this led to me taking the wrong message from the jubilation in the highest and lowest tones about my unprecedented, culinary gaffes. It was only after the number of affected participants increased from 6 to 20 within several years that the truth could no longer be hidden: You did not come for the food, but in spite of it.

In addition to my later efforts to contribute my artistic contribution as a singer, this was the first objectively justified rejection of my attempts to find niches in your world in which I could try my hand at it.

When a new world opens up, it can happen that the points of light of the previous, own world have little meaning in the new world. I was asked from time to time what I actually do for a living. I never succeeded, and certainly not here today, in conveying this in a reasonable time in such a way that there is anything left of the interest in an answer at all. It is extremely difficult for me as an inventor to explain which of the 7 parallel ideas and then in different stages of development I am currently working on. In other words, to deliver something spontaneously that is still correct in terms of content, or at least not boring. Sometimes I would have liked content that didn't just leave the legal question of whether I had actually applied for it as a patent. So I often stayed with taking a breath from my side.

It has been a big joint play so far, in which we all participated, but mistakenly believed that we had been significantly involved in the direction. A play in which we still assume that admission costs nothing and in which we often do not notice our role changes and which at best lead to the fact that we do not end up as a tragic figure. The special highlights in this tragic comedy were the episodes in which you played a role for me and I played a role for you. Sometimes the cast was predictable and we even had the anticipation and sometimes the surprise of playing together in this film. These beautiful encounters, in which we as colleagues were often surprised by the script, meant that we hardly asked for new casts. This means that we are and will be together in the transition to a new chapter. The request to the secret director and screenwriter is to allow even less length in the future, to avoid arbitrariness and to concentrate on the things that are really close to our hearts. And that includes you. It is important that we are less restricted by the expectations of our role, views and interests, but that we freely bring all facets (the presentable) of ourselves into play. Maybe we surprise ourselves with skills and interesting idiosyncrasies that we didn't notice before. However, if it causes horror, you may be comforted that you have previously experienced many carefree years together.

I am happy to have been with you and have a good chance of sharing even more time with you.