Experience

Nucleate Switzerland

• Switzerland
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co Managing Director

  • Nov 2022 - Present

• Director of Operations

  • Feb 2022 - Nov 2022



epyMetrics AG

• Switzerland
• Health and Human Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Machine Learning Engineer

  • Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

• Machine Learning Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - Jul 2021



École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

• Switzerland
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Masters Student

  • Sep 2017 - Jun 2020

• Student Researcher in the Laboratory of Protein Design and Immunoengineering

  • Dec 2019 - May 2020



CrossFit Venoge

• Switzerland
• Spectator Sports

• Coach

  • Sep 2015 - Apr 2020

  Being a coach at CrossFit Venoge was a very gratifying experience which brought me closer to friendly community of hundreds of athletes, and developed my understanding of sports science, nutrition, public speaking, and management. During this time I accumulated over 800 hours of coaching experience. As the first coach to be hired at CrossFit Venoge by its Founder and Head Coach, Yassin Ben Saida, I was privileged, in that I was able to observe firsthand the challenges presented to a new small businesses and how best to overcome them. My weekly coaching activities required me to explain concepts that were at times complex including compound movements, and training and nutrition paradigms, to classes of up to 14 athletes, ranging from 16-65 year old, often in multiple languages. This was a valuable experience in learning how to break down information to be easily understood and quickly acted upon, and how to communicate with authority to a small group which depends on your coaching cues and advice, and every class constituted a small public speaking exercise. During our monthly planning sessions, we considered the impact that certain gym policies might have on the culture of the community, how best to approach a curriculum that was beneficial for the community as a whole, and yet easily adapted to each athlete's personal requirements, and how to organize the coaching team to best reach our common goals.


EPFL
• Switzerland
• Student Researcher in the Laboratory of Protein Design and Engineering

  • Oct 2019 - Dec 2019


Celgene

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scientific Intern in Business Development

  • Aug 2018 - Sep 2018

  My time at Celgene, as an intern in Business Development and Global Alliances was an especially instructive and enjoyable experience. I conducted a variety of projects including analyzing what factors contributed to the success of various alliances, deeper explorations of the science behind various assets on the market, and the competitive landscape surrounding them, and contributing to internal review process for newer opportunities. These projects help me develop myriad new skills, such as familiarity with clinical trials, understanding which assets solidified market positions or open new ones, and thus which assets might fit with a company's pipeline of products, and understanding the basics of managing relationships between companies. In addition, I further strengthened my organizational awareness and my understanding of the molecular background of cancer.



Center of Molecular Immunology

• Cuba
• Biotechnology Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• External Collaborator

  • Mar 2018 - May 2018

  During this time I continued my informatics project from my internship on a part-time basis, while I pursued my Master's studies at EPFL. This was a particularly valuable experience in coordinating work across time-zones, and helped me develop more organizational awareness.

• Research Assistant

  • Nov 2017 - Feb 2018

  During my time at CIM I approached increasing the efficiency of high-density perfusion cultures of CHO cells in two different projects. This technology is especially important in Cuba's biopharma industry, as it is the primary process used to create BioCubaPharma's pipeline of biologics. Both projects were oriented towards validating or refining a metabolic model published by two of my supervisors, Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz, and Kalet León, and Roberto Mulet. This work described a bistable range for CHO cell production, where a controlled growth curve could lead to a highly efficient, high-output culture behavior, and growth with too much nutrient abundance could lead to a low-output, low efficiency culture. Furthermore, pushing the culture to become too efficient could lead to die-off events.First, I worked in a clean room setting, applying different culturing parameters (primarily fluid exchange ratio) to cells in semi-continous culture and measuring the effects on cell growth, in order to define the range of exchange parameters that might lead to high-efficiency perfusion culturing. The results from this project were used to inform a bioreactor-based project, which was my first exposure in biomanufacturing. The second project involved refining the model with biochemical data from a variety of databases such as kegg.jp and brenda-enzymes. This project involved understanding the constraints surrounding mathematical modeling of linear systems, a large amount of python scripting to retrieve and store data using the APIs from these databases, version control, writing efficient code to handle many thousands of requests to the databases, and optimizing metabolic models using Cobra.

• Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  During my time at LMRP, under the guidance of Dr. Jun Ishihara and Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, I deepened my knowledge of cellular biology and refined my wet-lab techniques. I cultured human fibroblasts with numerous cytokines and confirmed activation via immunofluorescence assays and flow cytometry. I also did a significant amount of computer modeling to predict molecular interactions between these cytokines and extracellular matrix proteins. Skills that I ultimately developed during my internship include: editing scientific literature, using molecular modeling software such as Chimera, running standard assays such as ELISA, using flow cytometry machinery, and culturing human cells.

• Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  During my time at the LNCO I helped run an experiment looking for an EEG signal for agency, and interacted with about 40 subjects. My roles during this project involved running the software for the experiment, interacting with the subjects, collecting the data, and performing signal processing. My other roles in the LNCO involved contributing to project investigating the cortical representations of the M1 hand region in the brain by reporting on the literature published in this field. During my time at the LNCO I helped run an experiment looking for an EEG signal for agency, and interacted with about 40 subjects. My roles during this project involved running the software for the experiment, interacting with the subjects, collecting the data, and performing signal processing. My other roles in the LNCO involved contributing to project investigating the cortical representations of the M1 hand region in the brain by reporting on the literature published in this field.