Experience

Crystal Pharmatech

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development Subject Matter Expert

  • Sep 2022 - Present

• Research Scientist I

  • Oct 2021 - Sep 2022

  Project manager and scientist. The research is independently designed, executed, and presented.Strong focus on rigorous form selection, crystallization development, and HPLC method development using a charged aerosol detector.Lead ssNMR scientist.Lab manager for equipment and consumables. Developed new and improved workflows for inventory. Focus on continuous improvement of RD by purchasing new instrumentation, equipment, and ensuring a surplus of all consumables.Well versed and proficient with instrumentation including XRPD, TGA, DSC, PLM, HPLC-DAD, HPLC-CAD, PSD, DVS, KF (volumetric and coulometric), GC, spray dryer, Crystal16, hot stage microscopy, and jet/ball/planetary mill

• Associate Research Scientist I

  • Jun 2020 - Oct 2021

  Perform routine polymorph, salt, and cocrystal screening including phase origin, thermodynamic assessment, and form selectionCrystallization development starting form mg scale up to 45 grams. Work includes determination for suitable methods of crystallization, form selection, solvent selection, and MSZW. Parameters such as seed point, seed load, rate of anti-solvent addition, anti-solvent volume, cooling rates, and aging times were individually modified and their impacts on particle size, yield, purity, filterability, and residual solvent content were closely monitored for optimization. Experience and success with non-conventional methods for single crystal growth such as capillary crystallization, heteronuclear crystallization, polymer induced crystallization, and gel crystallization. In one case study with the guidance of in silico work, I was successful in isolating a single crystal which I later determined to be the most stable anhydrous and monotropically related to the starting material. I was also successful in scaling this polymorph from <1 mg to 5 grams Chosen to attend ssNMR training, ICDD XRD clinic, and Polymorphism and Crystallization conference



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Candidate | Chemistry

  • Aug 2022 - Present



The College of New Jersey

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Researcher

  • Jan 2020 - May 2020

  • Developed research proposal for cocrystallization of API, primidone, with suitable coformers to increase solubility in water • Utilized solid state grinding and solution crystallization to produce cocrystals • Used a spectrum of solvents to determine presence of polymorphism • Samples analyzed by PXRD, DSC, TGA, IR, NMR • Developed research proposal for cocrystallization of API, primidone, with suitable coformers to increase solubility in water • Utilized solid state grinding and solution crystallization to produce cocrystals • Used a spectrum of solvents to determine presence of polymorphism • Samples analyzed by PXRD, DSC, TGA, IR, NMR