Dr. Mark Harfensteller

Chief Operating Officer ITM Group

Dr. Mark Harfensteller joined ITM as Head of Production and R&D in 2008. In 2016, he became Managing Director of ITM Medical Isotopes. Under Mark’s leadership, the company established an industrial and GMP compliant production, meeting the demand of the rapidly expanding radioisotope market. Prior to his work at ITM, Mark successfully completed a project at the Institute of Machine Tools and Industrial Management (TUM), focusing on the development and production of alpha-emitter, ²²⁵Ac, via the irradiation of ²²⁶Ra in a cyclotron. The project has been nominated for the “Deutscher Zukunftspreis”.

Mark holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Germany).