My role involves project management of both contract research and partly grant-financed collaboration projects with industry co-financing focussing on developing and optimizing new chemical manufacturing processes/technology in areas ranging from Life science to Bioeconomy projects targeting biofuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks.As before there is a strong focus on applied metal catalysis for industrial scale manufacture, which is an area of key importance for establishing a circular economy chemical industry going forward.My role also involves sales and marketing of the services of RISE Chemical Process and Pharmaceutical Development as well as writing of grant applications for partially grant-funded research and development projects in the above fields, something which during the last two years has been particularly successful for the Bioeconomy area.I have in my previous and current roles within RISE been one of a group of dedicated and industrially experienced scientists who have built up the broad capability in Södertälje concerning catalytic hydrogenation and other thermochemical processes for upgrading of renewable feedstocks, which now is highly active in several projects targeting renewable transport fuels and Chemicals from different types of biomass.

I am leading a group of skilled experts within the area of metal catalysis for (industrial) chemical process development. Having access to state of the art high troughput automation equipment and a very broad precatalyst/ligand/catalyst library and decades of collective experience within the fields of catalysis and chemical process R&D, the group can develop optimal catalytic processes for industrial manufacture of small molecules in a very cost-effective manner. We also have access to enzyme kits and experience with developing and optimizing chemical processes using enzymes. The group importantly performs also fundamental, grant-financed research within the catalysis field in addition to fee for service contract R&D. Being part of SP Process Development AB and the Technical Research Institutes of Sweden, SP, we can solve very complex issues through the broad multidisciplinary skills base of the institute (link to web page http://www.sp.se/en/units/sppd/Sidor/default.aspx).

Global Scientific Leader of the Chemo- and Biocatalysis efforts within the global Pharmaceutical Development (Pharm Dev) organization of AstraZeneca. Leader of the Global Transition Metal Catalysis specialist group with members from Södertälje and Macclesfield, providing a world class high throughput catalysis reaction screening capability utilized by all R&D-functions, globally providing a unique service in the Catalysis area. Leader of the World Class Area Biocatalyst Tailoring Capability, targetting the implementation of biocatalysts as a tool for the development of more efficient chemical processes for molecules of the R&D-portfolio. Design of the science and technology Essential Science area Sustainable Chemical Process Development together with a team of other S&T leaders of the Pharm Dev organization. Responsible for assuring the efficient utilization of Catalysis as a way of optimizing the chemical processes designed within Pharm Dev. Scientfic and operative leader of the external EU seventh framework program project INTENANT, targetting improved ways of manufacturing single enantiomers (finished in June 2011)

Coaching of teams of between 8-12 process chemists of varying degrees of experience with responisibility for their development and management of their performance. Responsibility for assuring that rules around safety, health and envronment (SHE-) are well integrated in the daily work of the team. Scientfic and operative leader of the external EU seventh framework program project INTENANT, targetting improved ways of manufacturing single enantiomers. Scout for the Montreal R&D site designing new improved routes of synthesis for early candidate drug molecules, chemistry repsonsible for drug development projects, scientific leader of the life cycle management project for ticagrelor.

Head of a section of 25 employees within the AstraZeneca Process R&D, Process Chemistry Department. Coaching of team managers and team members, responsibility for development and performance management of the people in the section, SHE-responisbility for the employees and facilities used in the work, construction responsibility for the developed chemical processes, coaching of the work to identify suitable outsourcing and regulatory strategies for the Section portfolio of projects.