Dr. Marie Bachelet

The Smarties is a platform gathering postgraduates, academics and alumni from the top UK universities providing an insight into the next generation technological advances to the R&D departments of large corporates. - Reported the state-of the art of the research on established and emerging technologies - Identified industry drivers (economic, environmental, social, etc...) - Forecasted the technological evolution of the next decades

Research "Development of a solvent-free process for efficient cryopreservation and recovery of a wide range of mammalian cells. " Proof-of-Concept research project funded by Imperial Innovations (patented technology). Areas of expertise - Cryopreservation - In-vitro studies - Intracellular delivery - Polymer science

- In charge of the setting-up of the laboratories: redacted quotation requests and conducted the risk assessments of the new equipments - Draw-up and oversaw the management, guidance and schedule of chemical, biological and cytotoxic wastes - Provided the health and safety induction to new group members and students - Organised the group meetings schedule and oral presentations rota

- 3 successful projects 1/ Redefined the customer acquisition management for a website development agency 2/ Devised an online marketing strategy to launch a short-haul flight start-up 3/ Created a campaign to extend the readership of a web journal - Promoted the business development building-up trusted long-term partnerships with small businesses and start-ups - Actively engaged in the recruitment of junior consultants

- Taught 4 classes of BSc students in Chemistry tutorials with an overall 80% for highest level of satisfaction - Supervised and evaluated 100+ international BSc students as a laboratory demonstrator - Designed research projects for BSc/MSc students and provided a continuous supervision and support for laboratory work, reports writing and oral presentation preparation

- Responsible for the website content of the English, the Spanish and the French-speaking markets >10,000 adverts - Able to find solutions in emergency situations and to cope with the client’s needs - Obtained a good score for customer satisfaction on the quarterly survey

Research Preparation of polymeric drug loaded microspheres for controlled long-term drug delivery. Achievements - Optimised the production of polymeric microspheres via double emulsion method (W/O/O) - Planned and implemented the up-scale of the production process - Designed experimental methods for the quantitative analysis of the drug release kinetics - - Produced a detailed and recognised study to the 20+ international collaborators later used as reference work

Research Optimisation of the polyphenols extraction from Borage leaves via Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Methods - Extraction - UV-vis spectrophotometry - RSM/DoE

Research Development of materials and methodologies for the restoration and conservation of cultural heritage, in particular manuscripts and murals. Tasks - Technical assistant to research staff - Training on techniques applied to damage characterisation and materials for works-of-art restauration and conservation, in particular gels and emulsions

Optimisation of a multifunctional drug delivery platform for cancer based on nanoparticles. Areas of expertise: Biomaterials // Colloidal chemistry // Formulation // Drug delivery // Imaging // Nanotechnology // Polymers // Hydrogels

Environmental and pharmaceutical biotechnology // Live tissues, biomaterials, substitute materials, biointerfases // Nanotechnology

Chemistry // Physical Chemistry of Interfaces // Separation Processes // Computing and numerical methods // Computer-aided design (CAD) // Statistics and Optimization // Management and Economics