Daniel Richards Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, GB

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Process Development:Developing new routes/improving routes for molecules to be scaled to full plant productionProcess Safety Lead:Process Safety contact for all company projects, led setup of process safety capability at CatSci (safety testing/reaction calorimetry). Produced process safety support/training materials for process chemists to improve process.

Windlesham

Compiling and delivering safety training for chemists based around scale up chemistry.Superuser in charge of the large scale laboratory. Department point of contact for all safety queries related to safe scale up of reactions

Windlesham

Working in the Discovery Chemistry Synthesis Group, delivering compounds from tens to hundreds of grams for toxicological testing.Performing improvements on previous routes and designing new route to molecules, to allow for safe scale up, improving of yields and increasing throughput of the synthetic routes, as well as implementing green chemistry.

Windlesham

Synthesising compounds from milligram to hundreds of grams for use in drug discovery trials.Scaling up of med. chem. syntheses, introducing process and chemistry improvements, using 'green' chemistry ideologies, to make them more suitable for scale up.

Process chemist based mainly in the laboratory working on numerous projects concentrating on process understanding, capability and control Acted as shift chemistry support to manufacturing of various product, ensuring that chemistry standards were maintained on plantOffered coaching and advice to placement students in general laboratory techniques and.

Responsible for process improvement and understanding work using automated laboratory equipment for high throughput experimentation and Design of Experiments (DoE) methodology

Tonbridge, United Kingdom

Year in industry as part of my degree. I learnt how to use automated equipment, high throughput experimentation and Design of Experiments (DoE) methodology to improve and understand chemical processes

Masters, 2.1, Chemistry

Spent year in industry with GlaxoSmithKline in Tonbridge working as an automation chemist. Masters thesis on asymmetric allylyic.

A-Levels, Chemistry, Geography, History