Key accomplishments

• Successfully supervised a EU-funded innovation project with a budget of 11M€ and 17 partners.
• Tracked project progress & monitored finances, ensuring that projcets were completed on time and within budget.
• Autohered, reviewed and submitted technical deliverables and technical reports, ensuring compliance with EU regulations.
• Managed social media and developed web content, streamlining dissemination of project findings.
• Led R&D team successfully through multiple complex research and biomarker discovery projects with tight deadlines, resulting in improved hematologic tests as well as three promising biomarker candidates.
• Led customer manufacturing projects and functioned as primary client contact, meeting all deadlines and delivering superior product quality.
• Acquired research grants, reducing labor costs by 40%.
• Formulated and optimized IVD assay buffer conditions and supervised testing, resulting in optimal reagent composition ensuring robust product performance.
• Presented company research data at international conferences, resulting in multiple novel business leads.
• Played key role in completion of complex customer cGMP manufacturing projects, earning up to 1M€ per project.
• Monitored upstream processes, ensuring robust and reproducible operation.
• Investigated deviations and performed root cause analysis, ameliorating process robustness.
• Coordinated academic research projects, resulting in the discovery of novel ways for the production of bacterial membrane proteins and biotechnologically relevant enzymes.
• Authored 15 high impact scientific papers.