Hugo Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Echzell, HE, DE

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Singapore

• Negotiated an 23% discount in contract for servicing the laboratory gas safety system.
• Achieved 90% savings on lab supplies
• Developed safe contractor management procedures for multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environments which were published in the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety.
• Rated safest and best managed laboratory by National Research Foundation.
• Applying Lean Six Sigma methodology to support Research Staff.
• Founder and chair of the Safety Committee, the Sustainability Committee, and the Postdoctoral Committee.

Singapore

• Trained three junior scientists in molecular biology.
• Set up Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris laboratory with CRISPR/Cas9 capacity
• Set up RNA-safe working environment for RT-qPCR

London, United Kingdom

• Developed USD 20 million biomining business plan to address client's needs business plan for clients' proposed investment
• Contributed plans for industrial pilot and functional plant, including reviewing necessary geological surveys and engineering requirements.
• Delivered necessary biological and biotechnological background research
• Liaised with necessary stakeholders in academia and industry

• Delivered chemical inventory in 5 weeks instead of the planned 8.
• Optimized safety inspection of all laboratories
• Wrote Material Safety Data Sheets for Illumina products, in compliance with new standards.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Delivered completed research paper on optimized, computer assisted genetic engineering.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Greatly increased foreign language students competence in Mathematics, Physics and Biology

Department Of Biochemistry

• Supervised and instructed 18 junior researchers.
• Built and ran the second yeast laboratory in the University of Cambridge's Department of Biochemistry.
• Set up RNA-safe working environment for RT-qPCR
• Oversaw installation of focal microscope valued at GBP 240,000
• Used R and Python to analyze large volumes of unstructured genomic and proteomic data.
• Generated standards for computational biology - molecular biology comparison.

Cambridge

Generated and optimized models of intracellular diffusion

• Achieved levels 1 & 2 of the Military Leadership Development Programme, awarded by the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
• Instructed levels 1 & 2 of the Military Leadership Development Programme in 2012
• Instructed at the 2010 IDG Sandhurst Business Challenge.
• Cultural liaison during the 2012 Modern Army Pentathlon Challenge
• Represented the British Army during the 2012 NATO Exercise in Macedonia.

• Arranged interviews with Richard Dawkins, Will Whitehorn, Buzz Aldrin, and James D. Watson

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Maintained isogenic Drosophila melanogaster stock for Professor David Finnegan

Edinburgh

Purified novel Drosophila melanogaster proteins by expressing them in E. coli for X-ray crystallography and NMR.

Frankfurt Area, Germany

Delivered Six Sigma and Good Management Procedure compliance

Ph.D., Systems Biology

Activities and Societies: Cambridge Officer Training Corps Varsity - Student writer and journalist The Cambridge Student - Student writer.

Mphil Integrative Bioscience, Biology

Activities and Societies: Oxford Gliding club, Scuba diving club, Astronomy Society (Social secretary, managed budget)Awarded full.

1St Class Honours Molecular Biology, Biology, Molecular Biology Specialization

Activities and Societies: Karate Club (3rd Kyu)Staff-Student Liaison for Biology Department at the University of Edinburgh for three years.

Military Leadership Development Program, Level 1 & 2, Leadership, Teamwork

Cmi Accreditation Level 5, Management

Awarded in recognition of my achievement as a member of the Officer Training Corps

Certificate In Astronomy And Planetary Science, Astronomy

Equivalent to one third of an Honours degree in Astrophysics

Certificate, Modelling Engineered Systems

Learning how to successfully model engineered systems, both mathematically, and in the MATLAB computational system.

Education record

Education record