Experience

CHEMIUM srl

• Catalyst Group Manager

  • Nov 2023 - Present

• R&D Manager Catalysts

  • May 2021 - Nov 2023



TOTAL

• Argentina
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• R&D Project Leader for Polyolefin Catalysis

  • Nov 2016 - May 2021

   Project leader for R&D programs for US and EU (budget: 2 M$/y: lab, bench, pilot unit: 100 lbs/h),  LEAN, project management and technical reporting (« gates meetings »).  Teamwork, PhD thesis supervision, academic and industrial program follow-up.  Bibliographic and technological watch. Innovation tools (brainstorming sessions, creativity)  HSE: laboratory manager, risk analysis (chemicals and procedures), reporting, safety.  PE et PP expertise, analytical… Show more  Project leader for R&D programs for US and EU (budget: 2 M$/y: lab, bench, pilot unit: 100 lbs/h),  LEAN, project management and technical reporting (« gates meetings »).  Teamwork, PhD thesis supervision, academic and industrial program follow-up.  Bibliographic and technological watch. Innovation tools (brainstorming sessions, creativity)  HSE: laboratory manager, risk analysis (chemicals and procedures), reporting, safety.  PE et PP expertise, analytical, polymerisation processes, catalysis, structure-properties-perf. relationships  R&D: metallocene and Ziegler-Natta catalysis; PP automotive: grades development.

• R&D Project Leader on Catalytic Processes

  • Jan 2015 - Nov 2016

   Joint Development Agreement with Eni (know-how disclosure and process development)  Project management: project leader / investments / planning.  Refining culture, bottom of the barrel, product valorization.



IFP Energies nouvelles

• France
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD (FR/NL): "Supramolecular catalysts for olefin oligomerization"

  • Oct 2011 - Sep 2014

  Thesis promoted by IFP Energies Nouvelles in partnership with the University of Amsterdam (HOMKAT group). I developed supramolecular catalytic strategies and applied it to relevant metals for olefins transformation (18 months at Amsterdam + 18 months in IFPEN - Lyon).

• Master internship (R&D): "Homogeneous catalysts for olefins transformation"

  • Mar 2011 - Sep 2011

  Development of organometallic catalysts and associate catalytic tests for the transformation of olefins.



University of St Andrews

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Master internship (R&D): "Catalysis using Cu-NHC systems"

  • May 2010 - Aug 2010

  - organic, inorganic and organometallic synthesis - homogeneous catalysis - air free / Schlenk techniques - publication (RSC Advances) - routine use of GC, GC/MS, NMR, preparative chromatography. - organic, inorganic and organometallic synthesis - homogeneous catalysis - air free / Schlenk techniques - publication (RSC Advances) - routine use of GC, GC/MS, NMR, preparative chromatography.



Laboratoire "Biostructures et Decouverte du Medicament", (U761), INSERM, Institut Pasteur de Lille

• R&D training in Pharmacy: "Synthesis of potential zinc metalloprotease inhibitors"

  • Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

  Synthesis of organic molecules Basic lab-skills development. Synthesis of organic molecules Basic lab-skills development.