David Willemsen is a Scientist for product development at QIAGEN. He joined the QIAGEN Hilden R&D team in 2022, and his work focuses on developing environmentally friendly solutions for nucleic acid extraction. Before joining QIAGEN, David worked on adaptive trait evolution and population genetics as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Cologne, Germany.