Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death

It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,

White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne's lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer's pace.

- Philip Larkin

My personal "digital garden". Or, you know, my website. For no particularly (good) reason why.

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My professional stuff:

Experience

Data Scientist, Market Modelling & Planning

Lonza AG, Basel, CH
Nov 2022 – present
Probabilistic prediction of aggregate drug development from pre-clinical and clinical phases to commercial launch.

Lead Scientist, Drug Product Services

Lonza AG, Basel, CH
Nov 2020 – Oct 2022
Pharmaceutical development for liquid and lyophilized biologic drug products. Laboratory-scale modelling of fill/finish processes.

Senior Associate Scientist, Large Molecule DP Development

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Schaffhausen, CH
Jan 2018 – Oct 2020
Aseptic fill/finish processes for new drug product introductions and technical transfers at Schaffhausen facility.

Senior Associate Scientist, Small Molecule API Development

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Schaffhausen, CH
Nov 2015 – Dec 2017
Support for late-stage chemical development of small molecule APIs and intermediates. Crystallization process development and process analytical technologies.

Research Scientist, Chemical Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick (NJ), US
Jan 2008 – Aug 2013
Support for early-stage chemical development of small molecule APIs and intermediates. Synthetic route evaluation. Enabling syntheses to deliver clinical material.

Education

MS Chemistry

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004 - 2007
Main-group asymmetric catalysis

BS Chemical Engineering, BS Polymer Science and Engineering

Case Western Reserve University
2000 - 2004

Languages

English: native
French: C1
German: B1