In 2011, he co-founded the former Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technologiekommunikation GmbH (IWTK) in Berlin Germany, a privately held company that focuses on innovation processes in research and technology-centered organizations.
[1] Currently Rispens works as a senior cyber security expert for organisations in the medical sector, critical infrastructures, and payment service providers.
[4] Rispens cited a memo written by Debye during his time as Director of the Physics Section at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, which reads: “In light of the current situation, membership by German Jews as stipulated by the Nuremberg laws, of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft cannot be continued.
[9] The Cornell University department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology's investigation found the information to be insufficient to warrant distancing themselves from Debye's legacy.
[10] Another investigation by the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies concluded that Debye was and “opportunist” who “showed himself to be loyal to the dominant political system, first in the Third Reich and then in the United States, while at the same time keeping the back door open: in the Third Reich by retaining his Dutch nationality, in the United States by attempting to secretly maintain some contacts with Nazi Germany via the Foreign Office.”[11] ‘Einstein in Nederland.