Franca Tiarks
Teamlead Learning Campus LU, Digitalization and Operations
Franca Tiarks was born in Wilhelmshaven in 1973. She studied Chemistry in Marburg and Edinburgh (UK) and did her PhD in Polymer Chemistry at the Max-Planck-Institute in Golm, Germany. She joined BASF SE in Ludwigshafen in 2001 and has worked in several functions since then:
Aug 2020 – today BASF Ludwigshafen, Teamlead Learning Campus LU, Digitalization and Operations
Jan. 2019 – Aug 2020 BASF Ludwigshafen, Teamlead Regional Mobility Center Germany
Oct. 2015 – Jan. 2019 BASF Ludwigshafen, Deputy Head Diversity + Inclusion, Project Lead “Executive Diversity”
Feb. 2014 – Oct. 2015 BASF Ludwigshafen, CoE Recruiting, Personnel Marketing & Talent Resourcing R&D in Europe and for Asia-Pacific
Nov. 2013 – Jan. 2014 parental leave, working part-time (20%)
Sep. 2011 – Nov. 2014 BASF Ludwigshafen, CoE Recruiting, Personnel Marketing & Talent Resourcing R&D in Europe and for Asia-Pacific
Mar. 2010 – Sep. 2011 parental leave, Shanghai China
Mar. 2007 – Mar. 2010 BASF China (Shanghai), Head of Product Development Leather East Asia
Jan. 2005 – Mar. 2007 BASF Ludwigshafen, Manager Global Product Development Architectural Coatings and Construction Chemicals
Jul. 2001 – Jan. 2005 BASF Ludwigshafen, Lab Team Lead, Polymer Research, Dispersions Department