Speakers

Evotec
Verona, Italy

After completing my Ph.D. I joined Boehringer Ingelheim in the Medicinal Chemistry Department, where I was involved in the synthesis of small molecules for lead optimization projects. In 2017 I joined Evotec as principal Scientist and was responsible for the scale up group, working at the interface of Discovery and Process chemistry department. In 2020 I became Senior Manager and my team is involved in Scale-up, Flow chemistry and discovery activities.

Evotec, Senior Manager
April 2020– Now Verona
- Kilo-Lab Lab manager
- Proposal generation.
- Manage a team of fourteen chemists.
- Manage R&D scale up projects for candidates under development.
- Manage budgets and resources ensuring that all expenditures are justified and aligned with company goals.
Evotec, Principal Scientist
June 2017– April 2020 Verona
- Route scouting and Scale-up for NCEs and APIs.
- Kilo-Lab synthesis, 2 L to 20 L reactors.
- Proposal generation.
- Manage a team of three chemists.
- Responsible for managing hours with a given budget.
- Weekly update to the customer.
- Execute process R&D laboratory experiments for compounds under development and conduct route optimization to deliver non-GMP material.
- Prepare technical reports and oral presentations; contribute scientific expertise to programs supported by process chemistry.
Boehringer Ingelheim Research Italy, Medicinal Chemistry Research Associate
June 2010 – March 2017 Milan
- Route scouting for NCEs and APIs.
- Autonomous design and implementations of experiments.
- NMR,GC and HPLC (analytical and preparative)
- Documentation of data reports according to laboratory standards and presentations to internal team meetings.
- Analyze latest scientific breakthroughs in the drug discovery field through continued reading of the literature and patents and attendance of scientific conferences.