supporting various elements of skincare product development from project initiation through market launch with a strategic focus on communication of scientific knowledge, selection of active ingredients, and coordination of innovative testing. Tom Ford makeup and skincare brand liaison and scientific advisor and innovator:• Facilitate clear communication at the interface between Advanced Technologies and Marketing• Maintain awareness of new technical or marketing opportunities from scientific literature and publications• Serves as a creative catalyst for identification and communication of new ingredients and technologies• Translate and adapt technologies and communications to ensure compliance in a global regulatory framework• Brainstorm innovative testing approaches for support of active ingredient and product performance• Review test platform to ensure all product claims are being addressed• Work closely with Clinical Evaluation team to coordinate clinical, instrumental, and consumer testing• Provide final test results with technical support/interpretation• Issue technical dossiers for new products or modifications to existing products• Review concepts, cartons, packaging, advertising, web, e-commerce, training materials for technical accuracy• Provide technical support to Marketing – explanation of new and existing technology for all launches to help Marketing develop concepts

Translate and accelerate R&D technologies into breakthrough platforms and/or products with superior consumer benefits. • Scout, build, plan, lead a portfolio of upstream/downstream Skin Care innovation platforms• Establish strong connection with marketing, product development, safety, analytical, legal, regulatory and packaging to bring consumer relevant and competitive products in the market• Identify right academic partners and contract research teams. Lead and manage the projects with granular exposure end to end. Design research and testing with highly scientific institute. • Ensure the industrial protection of discoveries and optimize the portfolio of patents by creating IP and credentiality. Granular exposure to patent writing, legal processes to protect intellectual properties

• Develop new scientific stories and ingredients to enhance product performance and function• Support brands with in-vitro claim testing of newly developed formulations/actives such as lifting, firming, anti-aging, anti-pollution, and brightening• Investigate Release, penetration, and delivery of actives with an effort to maximize formulation performance and efficacy

Create and develop innovative ideas, processes, protocols, and techniques to support line of treatment and sun care productsResponsibilities include:• Actively searching and developing new ideas/concepts, breakthrough technologies from variety of industries, research and educational institutions, scientific literatures, and translate into tangible cosmetic products• Develop new and innovative technology/products that substantially differs from or exceeds current products and technologies• Develop new approaches for the delivery of the projects. Makes creative and innovative contributions to product formulations by understanding formulation technicalities• Participate in brainstorming meetings and contribute to the creation of new ideas• Effectively use project management/milestone planning techniques to drive multiple concurrent opportunities• Identify and/or evaluate materials or technologies and carry out research on assigned technology, concepts, technical opportunities, and materials

• Understand chemistry of formulation and properties of products and research into the development of new products • Troubleshoot formulas as well as continuous improvement of existing formulas and process• Monitor, investigate, and resolve issues related to formula stability, micro, and safety• Managing product development from inception, through testing, scale up and transition to manufacturing

Synthesis of biocompatible polymers for hemostasis and wound healing, designing reaction schemes, working with surface functionalization (grafting on/grafting from), running biological assays, working with live tissue, optimizing raw materials, and writing up and presenting findings

Ph.D. : Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Polymer Science, and Material Science* Synthesis, purification and analytical characterization of surfactant, and small organic molecules from micro to grams of target* Design, synthesis, purification and analytical characterization of multidentate multifunctional polymeric surfactants via Acyclic Diene Metathesis ADMET strategy for surface coating of colloids* Design, synthesis, purification and analytical characterization of bio-conjugated polymers as a bio probe for cell imaging * Synthesis, purification, and surface modification of colloidal nanocrystals for in vivo applications* Investigate self- assembly, organization, packing, and reactivity of surfactants at organic-inorganic interface of semiconducting colloids* Explore effect of steroid loading on the affinity of steroid grafted fluorophore colloids toward synthetic lipid bilayers

Supervised and instructed students in organic and general chemistry labs and recitations, prepared teaching materials including problem sets, quizzes and exams, assisted students individually with problems they found difficult to understand• Laboratory in Elementary Organic Chemistry• Laboratory in Organic Chemistry• Laboratory in General Chemistry for Engineering Students• Laboratory in General Chemistry I• General Chemistry for Engineering Students

Trained undergraduate chemists on advanced chemistry techniques, emphasized on keeping complete and accurate scientific notes