Vinitha Raghavan Email & Phone Number

Hamburg, HH, DE

Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg, Germany

• As Content Acquisition Editor, my responsibilities included:
• Commissioning high quality submissions for the open access research platform -F1000Research.
• Conducting structured analysis of life sciences landscape to determine areas of growth and potential opportunities for content acquisition.
• Identifying and engaging researchers in the growing areas of Applied Biology and Bioinformatics to curate and oversee themed article collections. Some of the article collections that I’ve launched so far include.
• Networking with and engaging key researchers and research groups through a range of approaches including 1:1 discussions, presentations-webinars and international conference attendance (such as ESMO 2022) to boost the.
• Tracking and maintenance of new and ongoing acquisition projects on Salesforce.

Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

• As Regulatory Affairs Specialist:
• Provided guidance on labelling for Food Colours and other ingredients.
• Created and maintained product technical documents namely the TDS and SDS for a wide portfolio of Sensient Food Colour offerings.
• Completed customer raw material questionnaires and handled regulatory queries for Food colours from customers including product compliance in different countries.

Hamburg Area, Germany

• My primary responsibilities at R&D included:
• Developing new formulations and optimizing existing formulations ensuring that all aspects of development adhere to the cost plan and within the planned time period.
• Performing basic in-house product stability testing
• Reporting and subsequent documentation on SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) thereby creating Bill of Materials (BOMs) for scale up.As Regulatory Affairs Officer:
• Reviewed and approved technical documents from Suppliers to support developmental projects i.e. ingredient statements, Safety data sheets and Technical data sheets.
• Classified products and created Safety Data Sheets according to European regulations as laid out in CLP, REACH (in English and German)

Chennai Area, India

• Was instrumental in driving growth of the assigned journal portfolio (Neuroscience) by growing quantity and quality of special content in line with portfolio strategy. My responsibilities included:
• Acquiring, developing and managing high quality topical and special issues and related bulk revenue according to targets
• Attending quarterly international Editorial board meetings to discuss operational aspects and journal strategy.
• Representing my journals/company at international conferences such as the annual SFN conference.
• Working directly with external Stakeholders concerning new acquisitions, sharing updates and resolving queries through Telephone and Emails.
• Providing written and verbal reports/feedback on journal performance and actively suggested and implemented process improvements

Chennai Area, India

• Project managed a portfolio of 16 international journals, overseeing the end to end editorial and production operations. This role involved:
• Working closely with academic communities (external stakeholders) and contracted Suppliers/Vendors to ensure timely publication of planned issues for the year.
• Administering and maintaining the internal and external product databases (EES, PTS and EVISE)
• Working directly with external stakeholders to resolve queries regarding publication schedules, manuscript status queries and share project updates through Telephone and Email.
• Providing feedback to the Suppliers and Vendors for process improvements based on periodic manuscript quality audits

Chennai Area, India

• Was involved in high throughput screening project for directed evolution of an industrial enzyme.My responsibilities included:
• Preparing and presenting weekly project status updates
• Mentoring and training University Student interns in Molecular Biology techniques such as DNA extraction, Protein Expression, and Agarose Gel Electrophoresis

Msc., Biotechnology

Bsc (Honours), Biochemistry