Senior Research Scientist
Current• Developed specialty additives for personal care, coating, oilfield, and sealant market and brought new business opportunities for the organization • Managed innovation team for the development of OTC FDA monograph-based antiperspirant actives. • Contributed to the company's intellectual property position via invention and patent applications• Provided analytical support (NMR, solid-state NMR, XRD, UV-Vis) for the REACH registration and regulatory requirements• Integrated the Design of Experiments (DOE) tools in product development, introduced and implemented statistics tools in clinical trials data analysis• Analyzed and reverse-engineered market competitor products using available analytical tools, which was crucial to creating knock-off products• Applied expert chemistry knowledge to address manufacturing technical problems and customer service complaints• Worked on metallic chemistry and organoclay chemistry to deliver specialty products for the personal care market• Introduced and established advanced NMR techniques with different types of chemical identification capabilities• Performed Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO) duties for the Elementis Technology site
