Timothy Hebrink

Meet Tim. Tim is a Senior Staff Scientist in 3M Corporate Research Lab. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BS in Chemical Engineering, and has 40 years of polymer product development experience at 3M. His expertise, and innovations, in polymer properties and polymer processing has earned him 81 issued US patents and >80 pending patent applications covering novel optical polymers, optical film designs, polymer films with improved properties, and novel applications of polymer films. Polymer films produced by his inventions have enabled significant 3M polymeric film sales resulting in 6 Golden Step Awards for individual products achieving sales greater than $20 million/year. While at 3M Company, Tim has also been recognized with 10 Circle of Technical Excellence awards. He has held several positions ranging from polymer synthesis and polymer processing to environmental engineering and polymer film application development. He has also co-authored 12 research publications including a book chapter on Durable Polymer Films. His passion for clean energy technologies can also be seen at his home where he has been generating electricity with photovoltaics for 22 years, storing that renewable energy in batteries, heating domestic water with solar thermal panels, and fueled a commuter car with recycled cooking oil for 16 years. Now he commutes to work with an electric vehicle.