Peter Poechlauer
Innovation Manager, API, Pharma Services
Linz, Austria, USA
Key roles and responsibilities
- Drive innovation in small molecule manufacturing to develop cleaner, faster, less wasteful and more efficient production processes for client compounds
- Identify and help develop the competencies necessary to modernize production methods
- Advise on third parties from whom Thermo Fisher Scientific might acquire additional capabilities, and manages external research collaborations
- Provide technical expertise and help clients solve complex technical issues
Professional highlights
- Joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in 1990 and has more than thirty
years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development
- Developed several large-scale biocatalytic processes for fine chemicals, and led European research projects on biocatalysis and sustainable oxidation chemistry
- Headed process technology and introduced process intensification and microreactor technology within the company
- Introduced one of the first continuous flow processes in large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Author of forty-seven patent applications, sixty publications, several book chapters, and frequent presenter at industry conferences
Education
- Doctor of Natural Sciences in organic chemistry & pharmaceutical chemistry from Innsbruck University in Austria
Scientific expertise
- Product development
- Small molecules
- Green chemistry
- Process technology
- Continuous manufacturing & analytics
- Process Intensification
- Organic chemistry