Professional Life: 05/2016-today PAT Lead Expert for Late Stage Development in Global Drug Product Development at Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany 01/2006-04/2016 Technical services specialist in the business unit Analytics at the Polytec GmbH in Waldbronn, Germany Academic Studies: 04/2002-12/2005 PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in the group of Professor Dr. Günter Gauglitz • Focus: Analytics, spectroscopy, and chemometrics 10/1996-03/2002 Studies of chemistry at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany • Diploma thesis in the group of Professor Dr. Günter Gauglitz 1999 Erasmus scholarship at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain