Hans Lautenschlager received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Regensburg, Germany in 1989. After spending a year in Japan as a post-doc he joined WACKER Chemie. There he developed silicones for the textile industry. In 1998 he moved to a WACKER subsidiary in the US as Technical Director. Since 1999 Hans Lautenschlager has supported the release coating industry from Burghausen, Germany, first as Senior Technical Manager and from 2017 as Director of Release Coating. In 2004, he joined the FINAT Technical Committee where he has served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Test Methods since 2012.