Continue to help on consolidating knoell’s Food & Food Contact Materials (FFCM) global team, expanding the current FFCM team within knoell to support a diverse set of clients, globally, in their regulatory compliance challenges for food & food contact materials. Furthermore responsible within FFCM Division: - Technical & People Leadership,- Budgeting & Capacity Utilization,- Business Development & Proposals,- Project Oversight.

- Coordination of customer projects on food contact materials (FCM) & EU-REACH; - Business Development (BD) activities: acquisition of new customer projects related to regulatory and technical support for FCM in EU, UK, Switzerland, USA, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, MERCOSUR, ANDEAN, ASEAN, Russia & EAEU, as well as EU-REACH related projects; - Preparation of EU authorization dossiers for EU-harmonized FCM under Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004, Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 (plastics FCM), Regulation (EC) No 2023/2006 (EU GMP Regulation on FCM); Regulation (EC) No 282/2008 (for recycling processes applied onto post-consumer plastics intended for food contact applications);- Preparation of Food Contact (Substance) Notification (FCN) dossiers, under 21 CFR under US FDA;- Preparation of GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) notification dossiers, under 21 CFR under US FDA; - On-site audit of FCM manufacturing sites, under GMP Regulation (EC) No 2023/2006;- Preparation of authorization dossiers at EU Member State level for FCM with non-EU harmonized measures i.e., BfR Recommendations; - Preparation of EU authorization dossiers on Novel Foods, under Regulation (EU) No 2015/2283; - Compilation and review of Declaration of Compliance (DoC) documents for FCM - Preparation of safe use statements for FCM for the US market; - Risk assessment of NIAS (Non-Intentionally Added Substances) and Intentionally Added Substances (IAS) migrating from FCM into foods; - Regulatory and technical support for authorization of substances intended to be used in materials in contact with drinking water, under the 4MS approach;- Compilation of REACH registration dossiers EU-REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 and EU-CLP Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008;- Liaise with specialized testing labs on designing the correct testing conditions for migration and compliance testing on food contact materials - Liaise with Competent Authorities on both FCM and EU-REACH related projects.

- Daily project management (PM) of customer projects- Compilation of REACH registration dossiers for industrial chemicals (REACH Regulation 1907/2006 and CLP Regulation 1272/2008)- SIEF and Consortia communication for establishing REACH registration strategies - Regulatory support for EU harmonized (Framework Regulation on Food Contact Materials 1935/2004, PIM Regulation 10/2011, GMP Regulation 2023/2006) and non-harmonized food contact materials (FCM) (i.e., paper & board, printing ink, adhesives, varnishes & coatings, ion exchange resins, ceramics, glass, metals & alloys, cork & wood, rubbers & elastomers)- Compilation of Declaration of Compliance (DoC) documents for FCM - Risk assessment of NIAS (Non-Intentionally Added Substances) in FCM - Regulatory support in the EU for materials in contact with drinking water (MDW)- Food additives registration in the EU and USA - Invited speaker at several events on Regulatory Affairs on REACH, Food Contact Materials and Food additives, in the EU and US, organized by Smithers Pira, AMI Plastics, Waters UK

- Coordination of REACH, CLP and agro-chemical registration projects - Evaluation of substance identity, physical and chemical properties and analytical methods under REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006- Compilation of REACH registration dossiers (daily user of IUCLID) of industrial chemicals (including organic, organo-metallic substances, inorganic substances such as doped-inorganics, as well as nano-materials) - National notifications of industrial chemicals in USA and China- Advise customers on their REACH registration strategy; limited involvement in SIEF communication - Establish the C&L (classification and labelling) in accordance with CLP Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 (CLP/GHS)- Read-across and QSAR (i.e. EPISUITE, OECD QSAR toolbox, DEREK) applications- Technical support for business development team of WIL Research in relation to REACH, CLP & agro-chemicals registration related-projects- Preparation of proposals, and scientific reports for chemical industry

Technical key member of the Management Team, leading a team of PhD scientists. Have successfully completed the building-up of a new solid-state lab for applied pharmaceutical research with focus on:High-throughput (HT) solid form screening & selection (polymorph, salt, co-crystal and amorphous). THe main screening tool used: HT-XRPD D8 Discover with DaVinci configuration. Pre-formulation and analytical development testing.Process chemistry & optimization.API scale-up to 30-50 gram scale.First steps into solid dosage pre-clinical formulation.Multiple advanced research programs included: single crystal preparation & data analysis; crystal structure from powder data; high-resolution XRPD analysis; diastereoisomeric separation.Have greatly enjoyed and successfully managed the Business Development role. Have signed several CDA's, MSA's and numerous project proposals with clients across Europe and US. Have developed on executive-level relationships at big, medium and small pharma companies. In direct correlation to the above packages personal involvement included: CMC regulatory support for IND & NDA applications; life cycle management for strengthening customer IP portfolio.

Directly reporting to CEO, successfully full filled the project management role linked to several projects with focus on API solid form selection and pre-formulation. In addition, contributed to further expanding the client base of the company being present at several events and exhibitions in Europe (Paris, CPhI and Amorphous Pharmaceutical Materials, BSG Conference, London) and US (BioPharm America - Boston, and Informex, Charlotte, NC).Successfully implemented several new research packages in the company, which have been highly appreciated by the CRO clients.

Define, propose and manage customer projects, analyze and draw conclusions over the polymorph investigations, salt, co-crystal and amorphous solid dispersion screening results, carried out on pharmaceutical compounds, followed by defining the follow-up directions for the clients.

PhD Thesis: "H-Bond Stabilized Columnar Discotic Liquid Crystals" Thesis can be accessed at the following link: http://edepot.wur.nl/40028By August 2012, Ioan's articles included 118 citations in total, from which 66 referred to the Chem. Mater. 2006, 18(4), 968-974 paper.

Preparation and characterization of nano-composite materials based on starch for bio-plastic applications. Data interpretation (XRPD, thermal analysis data, optical microscopy images). Experimental study of 3D mixing of liquids (project carried out at Department of Mechanical Engineering, TUE).

Investigation of the thermal and liquid-crystalline properties of a high diversity of polymers and small molecules. Study of the PEG content influence on the glass transition of PET-copolymers; DSC and viscosimetry data interpretation.