Rebecca is an Associate Professor and EPSRC Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Oxford University. Her work focuses on the structure and bonding of materials at the atomic scale and bridges the gap between experiment and theory. She is one of the authors of the OptaDOS code and has worked on a variety of materials from doped graphene to zirconia. Rebecca’s current research interests include predicting vibrational spectra measured with the electron microscope, defects in rare earth superconductors and interpreting X-ray spectra from battery materials.
Niamh FINN is a Solution Consultant at BIOVIA, Dassault Systèmes and has been with the company for 2 years. Since studying Biological, Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at University College Dublin, Niamh’s background has been in Pharmaceuticals specializing in Quality Control.
In her role, Niamh leverages her background to provide scientific and technical support to our customer’s in adopting solutions for Document Management, Quality Process Management, Learning management and Laboratory Informatics.
Kevin is the VP of R&D for Quality & Regulatory solutions in Dassault Systèmes. As founder and former CEO of QUMAS Kevin has deep industry expertise across the Quality and Regulatory domains.
Margaux has experience in both pharmaceutical R&D and Manufacturing.
She first worked as a Data Specialist in Manufacturing at UCB BioPharma to help QA ans QC teams ensure process control and compliance through data monitoring. She then joined Pierre Fabre as a project manager to digitalize Reasearch and Phamaceutical Development laboratories using BIOVIA solutions. She is now part of BIOVIA Pre-Sales as Solution Consultant, specializing in Solutions for QC and manufacturing labs.
Stéphane joined the BIOVIA team 16 years ago to advise scientists and engineers, from the lab bench, the plant, hospitals, and the executive team, in their innovation endeavour. As a pharmacist coming from the industry, and with my scientific informatics experience, I could help you understand how to effectively use your data and improve your processes with BIOVIA Discoverant and BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot.
Lukas RASSPE-LANGE completed his Master in Business Administration and Engineering at the RWTH Aachen in October 2020. His specialization was in Mechanical Engineering with special focus on Energy Systems engineering. During his study at the RWTH he was working in building automation at the Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate. He then switched his field in July of 2021 to pursue a PhD in Professor Leonhard’s molecular systems engineering group at the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics in Aachen. His research centers around the fully automated design of best in class substances for selected applications which is also going to be the scope of the talk.
Scientist and software developer. Current focus on data science, machine learning and AI for materials science and formulations.
Dr. Alexandre CABAYÉ is working as solution consultant for the last 5 years and has an extensive experience in research on small molecules and protein modelling. He holds his Ph.D in Molecular Modelling from the University of Paris Cité.
Clement is an Aerospace Engineer with 10 years of experience, having worked in France, Germany, and the US. Specializing in aerospace engineering, cloud computing, and data science, he has collaborated with industry leaders such as Dassault Systèmes, NASA, and Airbus. Now a Product Manager at Dassault Systèmes, Clement oversees the development of cloud-based Machine Learning applications and Pipeline Pilot. He is driven by a passion for health and science topics.
Gregory is an Industry Process Scientist at BIOVIA, with a focus on cheminformatics and materials science. Greg is an experienced chemist with extensive knowledge in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, commodity chemicals, and structure-property studies.
With background in soft materials, James has worked with customers in applying BIOVIA’s molecular modeling and simulation solutions to innovate new materials for more than twenty years, and is currently the Product Manager for Materials Studio. He has publications and patents in a range of topics, and is especially interested in the application of coarse-graining methods and scale bridging strategies for enabling multiscale-multiphysics models.
Expertise: Atomistic simulations, Lab informatics and Data Science.Materials Science and Battery Materials
Bio: Dr. Johan M. CARLSSON is a Senior Industry Process Scientist and Fellow of the Science Council at the BIOVIA brand of Dassault Systèmes. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
He subsequently headed the Nanoporous Carbon group in the Theory department of Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin for six years. In 2008, Dr. CARLSSON joined the Contract Research group at BIOVIA and moved to the Technical sales Department in 2011.
In his role as Senior Industry Process Scientist, he helps customers to solve their scientific problems virtually by modeling and simulation techniques and practically by lab informatics using the BIOVIA Software Solutions. As a Fellow of the Science Council, he gives advice for the scientific strategy of the BIOVIA brand.
The research interests focus on computational materials science and cover metals, carbon, and battery materials and he has published 20 articles in scientific journals, which have received over 10000 citations in total.
Expertise: Biotherapeutics drug discovery, Systems Biology
Bio: Laurent is Product Manager for systems biology, data analytics and retrosynthetic chemistry applications at BIOVIA R&D, Dassault Systèmes. Previously, he has been working for 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry, leading bioinformatics teams and projects for the discovery of small molecules and biologics. Laurent has a master degree in bioinformatics from the Versailles University
Expertise: Scientific Informatics (Cheminformatics, Data Science), ELN, Search, Registration
Bio: Matthew SAGE, Ph.D. is a Senior Product Manager for Scientific Informatics at BIOVIA / Dassault Systèmes and received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry with Molecular Modelling from the University of Bath, UK.
Over the last 20 years he has helped customers from many industries to implement decision support tools that enable them to manage their specific scientific data requirements, ranging from small molecules to reactions and more recently chemically modified bimolecular entities. He also helped grow the Cheminformatics portfolio through various sales, support and services functions to become the industry standard it is today. Currently as a senior product manager, he manages the chemistry solutions at BIOVIA.
Expertise: Biological and Chemical Registration. Informatics. Drug Discovery/ Life Science Research
Bio: Neil is a Senior Product Manager at BIOVIA, based in Cambridge in the UK. For over 20 years, Neil has been responsible for registration offerings within BIOVIA, including Materials, Biological and Chemical Registration as well as a variety of other offerings in the past including Pipeline Pilot Collections and more. Neil has a bachelor's in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Warwick, UK and a PhD from the University of Wales, UK.
Phil COCHRANE has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, specializing in the synthesis of indole alkaloids, and has amassed over 20 years of experience working with Pipeline Pilot as a services consultant, both independently and as part of Accelrys, where his expertise in chemistry has been highly valuable and earned him a reputation as an industry expert.
Expertise: Materials Science and Formulation, Computational Chemistry, Materials Modeling, Sustainability, Physics-Based Modeling, AI Based Modeling
Bio: Stephen TODD is a Strategy Planning Expert for the BIOVIA team at Dassault Systèmes UK with a special focus on materials science and simulation tools. Prior to joining the Strategy team, Stephen was the Portfolio Manager for BIOVA’s discrete modeling and simulation tools and worked for 15 years with various stakeholders to build the market leading Materials Studio simulation product. He holds a PhD in molecular modeling of liquid crystals from the University of Hull, UK and enjoys getting people excited about science.
David joined a forerunner of BIOVIA 30 years ago, focusing on materials modelling and simulation. Shortly after that he became captivated by data science, machine learning, and now AI. His “circle of competence” extends just beyond Pipeline Pilot.
Mrs. LAMBERT studied in France and Singapore at Technological Universities and holds a degree in Bioengineering. She started her career at Servier Pharmaceuticals and St Jude Medical. Her professional experience and passion for digital and innovative projects in Life Sciences has led her to join Dassault Systèmes in 2012. In the Life Sciences Industry team, she took over the definition of the solution “Designed to Cure” that focused on Biological Systems Modeling. In 2017, Mrs LAMBERT expanded her scope to Manufacturing & Supply Chain with “Made to Cure” Solution. She participated in defining and promoting the value of Digital Twins in Pharma Manufacturing. Following those successful projects, in 2019 she was promoted to advise and support a member of Dassault Systèmes’ executive committee. After those very enriching experiences, she took over, in 2021, the definition of the global Life Sciences & Healthcare Portfolio.
Chris has a Ph.D. in chemistry and over 11 years’ experience as an atomic scale DFT modeler at Johnson Matthey. His research focuses mainly on molecular-type systems where he works closely with experimentalists across the various JM businesses to provide modelling support.
Maria CRISTINA is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Technologies “Giulio Natta” (SCITEC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Since 2017 she has been responsible for the SCITEC-CNR section in Rome where she leads the laboratory of Molecular Modelling and Drug Design. Her research primarily involves applying computational chemistry to biochemistry and health, which has led to understanding several molecular mechanisms responsible for disease development and resulted in significant patents for treatments of rheumatoid arthritis, ovarian cancer, and senolytic compounds. Member of Board of the National Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Health, she also integrates physics-based modelling with deep learning tools.
Bjoern WINKLER is head of the crystallography/mineralogy group at the Goethe University in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany). He has been awarded the Max-von-Laue Award of the German Crystallographic Society, the Albert-Maucher Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award of the German Mineralogical Society, the European Mineralogical Union Medal for Research excellence and the MSI Academic Award. He is a fellow of the American Mineralogical Society since 1998 and was the Los Alamos National Laboratory "Wheatley Scholar" in 2010/2011. His scientific interest is understanding structure-property relations of inorganic compounds by experiment and theory.
Ian has worked for Unilever for over 35 years, developing and applying a range of capabilities to enable the in-silico development of new ingredients and new formulations across the range of Unilever’s products. Mainly these use data driven modelling methods, employing whatever machine learning and optimisation techniques are best suited. As a user of Pipeline Pilot since 2001, all aspects of a project, from the initial DoE to the final web app that delivers the models to Unilever formulation scientists are performed using Pipeline Pilot.
Gabor CSÁNYI is professor of molecular modelling at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Massatchusetts Institute of Technology in 2001, then spent six years at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge before joining the faculty of the Engineering Laboratory. His early interests were in concurrent multiscale modelling in the condensed phase, and later he developed the application of machine learning tools to derive first principles force fields from electronic structure data. He was the recipient of the Leverhulme Early Career award, the F. W. Bessel award of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and the Argyris Visiting Professorship
Anne GOUPIL-LAMY, Ph.D., principal field application scientist and Science Council Fellow at BIOVIA, obtained her doctorate in molecular biophysics from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI, France). She studied protein dynamics and denaturation using molecular dynamic simulations and neutron scattering experiments under the supervision of Professor Jeremy C. Smith. Goupil-Lamy joined MSI (now BIOVIA) in 1998 as a support scientist and gained expertise in the many modelling areas supported by BIOVIA' life science modelling tools. While managing BIOVIA' contract research group for many years in Europe and worldwide, she performed feasibility studies, developed proposals and was involved in the delivery of structure-based design and ligand-based design projects with one contract resulting in a patent. As a pre-sales scientist, she has performed several validation studies in fragment-based design and protein-protein interactions that were presented at conferences and to customers. She is also involved in biotherapeutics projects focusing on antibody design.
Expertise: Lab Informatics, ELN, LES, LIMS, Instrumentation and Data Acquisition, Data Analytics
Bio: At BIOVIA Gene is providing the vision, strategy and management of the Laboratory Management product portfolio that includes the Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Laboratory Information Management System and the Laboratory Execution system.
Gene has over 30 years of experience in the Life Science industry developing and delivering Laboratory informatics solutions for the research, development and quality control labs.
Prior to joining BIOVIA, Gene led product development efforts for Zymark Corporation and REMP USA.
Gene obtained is BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1991.
Jacek ŻEGLIŃSKI is a Senior Process Development Scientist at APC Ltd. in Dublin/Ireland. He utilizes predictive modelling to gain better process understanding and to design more efficient and robust processes for drug product manufacturing. Jacek develops and implements modelling tools related to crystallization and reaction kinetics, including the solvent effects on solubility, nucleation, morphology, control of polymorphism, and rate of reactions.