Dr. Alessandro Butté, Co-founder, CEO

• Laurea in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (1996)

• PhD in Chemical Engineering from ETH Zurich (2000)

• International executive MBA from University of St. Gallen (2016)

• From 2008 to 2011, head of DSP activities at Lonza AG, till 2013 project manager

• Co-author of more than 60 papers and 4 patents

• Since 2013, lecturer and senior scientist at ETH Zurich

• Languages: Italian, English, German

Dr. Michael Sokolov, Co-founder, COO

• M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from TU Munich (2014)

• PhD in Bioengineering at ETH (2017)

• Additional business education (Bavarian Eliteacademy, Fernuniversität Hagen)

• Since 2015, Lecturer in Statistical and Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers

• Co-author of several publications

• Languages: German, Russian, English, French

Prof. Dr. Massimo Morbidelli, Co-founder, President

• Since 1997: Full Professor at ETH Zurich at Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering

• Supervisor of more than 100 doctoral thesis

• Co-author of more than 600 papers, 11 patents and 4 books

• In 2007, co-founder of ChromaCon AG (continuous purification of proteins and peptides)

• Current Research Focus: Continuous Integrated Cell Culture Processing, Polymer Reaction and Colloid Engineering, Process Modeling

• Languages: Italian, English, German

Fabian Feidl, Co-founder

• M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology from TU Munich (2014)

• Since 2015, PhD candidate at ETH Zurich

• Expert in bioprocess digitalization and advanced process sensors

• Additional business education (Bavarian Eliteacademy)

• Languages: German, English

Dr. Gianmarco Polotti, Process Data Analytics Specialist

• Laurea in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (1988)

• PhD in Process Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (1992)

• More than 20 years experience as engineer and manager in chemical industry

• Expert in chemometrics and process data analytics

• Co-author of 15 patents and 10 publications

• Languages: Italian, English

  Dr. M. Nicolas Cruz Bournazou, Process Automation Specialist

• M.Sc. in Process, Energy and Environmental Engineering (2007) from TU Berlin

• PhD in Process Engineering from TU Berlin (2012)

• Experienced scientist, group leader and lab manager

• Expert in bioprocess high throughput screening, modelling and automation

• Co-author of more than 20 publications

• Languages: German, Spanish, Greek, English

Joao Almeida, Machine Learning Specialist

• M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST Lisbon (2017)

• Certificate in Advanced Studies (CAS) in Computer Science from ETH Zurich

• Working experience at CERN

• Expert in software engineering, machine learning and data science

• Languages: Portuguese, English (and more in code than all of us combined)