Systematic Process Design Methods in Chemical Engineering MasterClass - EU edition

I am an experienced chemical engineer and project manager with over 20 years of expertise. If I were to oversimplify, my professional journey spans 10 years in academic research, followed by another 10 years dedicated to innovation within a startup company, and an additional 10 years navigating the corporate world. After obtaining my MSc degree in biotechnology and PhD degree in chemical engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, I worked as a postdoc in the fields of process simulation and mathematical optimization-based process design. Later, at a small startup company in Hungary, I worked on a wide array of innovative projects that ranged from lab-scale proof-of-concept experiments to a significant investment project at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary. During my corporate tenure, I focused on technology transfer in veterinary vaccine production. At Ceva Santé Animale I began as an expert and eventually assumed the role of a manager leading a team of 11 professionals dedicated to industrialization and process improvement. Currently, I am overseeing several projects that originated during my startup years. All these projects center around the tangible development of technology and equipment. As of November 2006, Ive been appointed Vice-President, Head of Biotech Process Sciences at Merck-Serono, based in Vevey, Switzerland, in charge of developing and validating the manufacturing processes for biotechnological products. In that context, whereas Serono was mainly using perfusion processes for recombinant hormones and cytokines, we moved the company to large-scale manufacture of monoclonal antibodies using proprietary chemicallydefined cell culture media and feeds. After our participation to the FDAs pilot program on Quality by Design, the concepts described in ICH Q8(R2) and ICH Q11 were implemented in our approach to gain process understanding. It was concluded by issuing a modernized approach for process validation at Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). More recently, we have introduced advanced processes such as intensified fed-batch and continuous downstream processing.