Florentine Hilty-Vancura, Phd Email & Phone Number

Meilen, ZH, CH

Rapperswil, St Gallen, Switzerland

Oftringen, Aargau, Switzerland

• ‘Lab to Launch’: Bringing new products to market for food, oral and personal care
• Coordinating IP of the business segment
• Actively using and spreading the use of Design of Experiments and data analysis
• Driving innovation for 'Cosmospheres - Just Bead It'

Egerkingen, Solothurn, Switzerland

• Taking responsibility of ISO-certified laboratories and technicians
• Supporting business segments with research for product development
• Managing scientific projects with internal and external partners

Greater Chicago Area

• Instructed and supervised volunteers in different warehouse duties (up to 10 people)
• Optimized processes and quality control
• Member of food safety and nutrition committee

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Coordinated and scientifically guided industry collaboration.
• Taught students how to use Excel pivot tables to increase handling efficiency and accuracy of large data sets.
• Continued project as described in previous position as “Postdoctoral fellow” at ETH Zurich (Mar 2011 – Aug 2014)

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Reorganized and conducted practical lab courses on food analysis ("Nutrient Analysis in Foods" (766-6205-00L)).
• Introduced new grading process to improve transparency and fairness.
• Taught Advanced Topics of Nutrition Sciences at Bachelor level (up to 160 students) "Advanced Topics in Nutritional Science" (752-6002-00L)
• Successfully completed "Teaching at ETH: Committed and Skilled" a faculty programme for teaching at university level (Spring 2014)

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Acquired more than $1 M of funding for projects.
• Supervised and guided industry collaborations with 4 Swiss/International industries.
• Negotiated with external suppliers and reviewed legal requirements for collaboration.
• Developed and tested novel compounds (minerals) for food fortification.
• Designed and successfully execute in vivo and basic research studies including pilot scale experiments.
• Successfully coordinated and oversaw research across disciplines, institutes, countries, and continents.

Potchefstroom, South Africa

• Coordinated research between PCDDP and ETH and prepared the execution of 2 large in vivo studies.
• Supervised agricultural fortification and in vivo study to testing new ways of food fortification.
• Initiated collaboration between ETH and South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) for in vivo study.
• Mentored PhD and Master Students (Swiss and South African).
• Introduced and instructed students how to use reference software to improve efficiency in scientific writing.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Group of gene analytics
• Independently developed a system to distinguish and identify plants from food samples
• Established and applied Real Time and classical PCR methods

Zurich

Synthesized new fully substituted purines and related compounds

Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Handled applications for identity cards and passportsIssued nationality validationsWrote correspondenceHelped customers at the counter

Management Acceleration Programme, Business Administration And Management, General

Dissertation, Phd, Novel Nanoiron And Nanozinc Compounds: The Next Generation Of Food Fortificants?, Eth Medal Awarded

• Interdisciplinary project involving two Swiss industrial partners and three research groups • Successfully developed and optimized novel.

Post Graduate Degree (Dipl. Nds Ethz In Humanernährung), Human Nutrition, 5.9/6.0

Activities and Societies: Teaching assistant in food science course. This course offered advanced education and gave a broad overview on.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Chemistry, 5.4/6.0

Master of Science in Chemistry with Organic Chemistry as the major and Biochemistry as the minor, non-chemistry, subject during the Master.