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Villigen

Paris Area, France

Lyon Area, France

Led all technical projects of the start-up project HypSo Technologies (concepting stage) and gave feedback on the start-up strategy. o Defined company’s strategy & business needs through market study & industrial property analysis.o Overlooked project management and analysed risks & opportunities. o Defined product requirement specifications and analytical methods for optimum quality control.o Managed international & highly interdisciplinary collaborations, established new partnerships. o Fostered new technologies with research institutes to expand start-up project into new markets.o Provided technical support for failure analysis and product optimization.o Supported sales team, prepared business plan and files for investment programs.Collaboration with EPFL, ENS, ETH.

Lyon Area, France

In charge of the development, analysis & production of innovative materials for medical imaging applications.o Developed and implemented new R&D and innovation strategy. o Defined product specifications & developed new lines of product: +80% performance (2 patents). o Led production process scale-up & Optimized process: -500% production costs (1 patent).o Designed new delivery system (1 patent in prep.).

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Coordinated research projects and the Materials & Heterogeneous catalysts’ laboratory of the group.o Supervised the installation & managed most of the lab’s preparation, characterization & testing units.o Gave expertise on material & catalysts analysis / tests. Coached team members & external users.o Supervised PhD students & was involved in many side projects.o Managed relationships with external research partners & Established complementary network.o Developed, obtained grants (1.5MCHF) and coordinated 4 international R&D projects.Projects managed: (Sorbent Enhanced) Reforming, Water Gaz Shift, CO2 Electrochemical Reduction, microelectronic (wet chemical deposition), selective hydrogenation, etc.

Lyon Area, France

Development & characterization of catalysts & porous materials for low temperature reforming reaction.o Implemented metal & support preparation routes for efficient doping of materials.o Established new analytical procedures and optimized existing ones.o Designed colloidal nanoparticle strategy for hybrid catalyst preparation.o Developed & Optimized porous oxide surface enrichment screening procedure.o Coordinated research efforts between 4 collaborating European labs.o Introduced a new generation of catalysts with stability & activity improved by 40% & 30% respectively. Collaboration with Sasol Ltd UK, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica de Madrid (CSIC)

Rostock Area, Germany

o Performed High-Throughput Screening (HTS) of catalysts (Tests on Fixed Bed Reactors). o Performed kinetic & thermodynamic modelling. Welcomed by Dr. U. Rodemerck in Prof. D. Linke’s group.

Saint Andrews

Performed analysis (Operando Raman & IR) and catalytic tests.Collaborator: Paul Webb

Tarragona, Spain

Engineered zeolites to improve material texture & porosity.o Maximized preparation conditions using DOE: +250% efficiency & +10% performance.o Established & performed series of analytical tests to monitor the evolution of material performances.

Middlesbrough Area

Conducted Fischer-Tropsch catalytic tests on a pilot reactor & operated testing rig. o Initiated DOE to screen reaction conditions: significant time optimization (long term). o Established new catalyst loading procedure: up to +20% lifetime

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering & Catalysis, Highest Honor

Collaboration with Sasol Ltd UK, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica de Madrid (CSIC)

Master’S Degree, Catalysis, Major In Catalysis And Materials

Engineer’S Degree, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of the Gala reception organisation committee