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Kvistgård, Capital Region Of Denmark, Denmark

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Leading the analytical chemistry & biophysics department at CP Kelco (food and pharma ingredients); Managing a team supporting R&D, Business Development, Manufacturing and Quality; Coordination and prioritisation of activities & resources in a customer focussed environment with changing priorities; Motivating, mentoring and developing employees to meet business targets; Continuously improving tools, techniques and work processes in a GLP regulated area; Transforming commercial needs into technical projects and business opportunities; Influencing others to reach agreement and acceptance for new practices & approaches; Driving globalisation, digitalisation / automation and cross-functional collaborations; Maintaining high level of safety, environmental and quality standards; Managing and making decisions within a defined budget; Driving & promoting external collaborations, including fund raising and identifying & managing of CROsHeading up a global cross-functional Analytics Focus Group for strategic projects: Identifying & aligning analytical strategy for product characterisation; CRO collaborations for regulatory product approvalProject leader for Innovation projects, a reconstruction project and several external collaboration projects

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R&D representative in strategy groups and customer account teams covering future product directions; Full scale wash coordinator — distribution and granting of washing machine resources for all Household Care projects globally, as well as ensuring global conformity of experiments and processes; Scoping of project ideas for a technology platform anchored in India; Responsible for developing & implementing new methods and identifying novel solutions & possibilities for future products; Coordinating product investigations & analyses; Data managementWhere: Carbohydrate Stain Removal team, Detergent Applications, Household Care

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Project leader for a number of projects, including scoping of project ideas, planning ahead and setting ambitious targets, ensuring alignment in the organisation, stakeholder management as well as resource request & management; Developing and implementing screening assays and workflows for various enzymes; Member of Patent Portfolio Group; Application testing — Full scale wash performance and small scale correlation; Coaching, guiding and helping colleagues with their personal and professional challenges and developed a proven track record in turning teams and people aroundWhere: Detergent Research Center — New Enzymes, Detergent Applications, Household Care

Application coordinator in a large customer project — planning, organising and coordinating the screening workflow from lead generation to functional, kinetic, solubility, stability, etc characterisation; As technical expert member of Patent Portfolio management Group and dialog partner for inquiries & discussions with customers and other departments; Developing new enzyme technologies and formulation concepts; Automatisation — identifying and implementing new automation friendly workflows with a LEAN mindset; Planning, developing, implementing & validating processes and workflows; Working as team lead for a team of scientists & technicians coordinating responsibilities and tasksWhere: Protease & Protein Stain Removal team, Detergent Research Center II, Detergent Applications, Household Care

Developing and implementing a high-throughput screen for lipid analyses for next generation nutraceuticals

Various projects dealing with general protein analysis, enzymology, chemo-enzymatic synthesis, protein design, as well as structural biological investigations via both NMR and X-ray crystallography

Protein purification and characterisation of enzyme-ligand interactions using NMR spectroscopic methods; Biochemical and structural enzyme analysis using SPR, CD and fluorescence spectroscopy; Rational drug design; GMO responsible

Expression of proteins in E. coli, yeast and insect cells; Purification and analysis of several proteins, including aggregate forming enzymes; Development of new isolation protocols and activity assays; Generation and characterisation of mutants

Synthesis and biochemical characterisation of carbohydrate based inhibitors

Phd, Chemical Bilogy

Thesis entitled "Functional characterisation of the key enzyme of sialic acid biosynthesis, UDP-GlcNAc 2-epimerase/ManNAc kinase"

Diplom, Molecular Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Biophysics

Diplom thesis entitled "Biochemical and molecular biological studies on the desaturation of long-chain shingobases"