Principal Scientist
at
Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
Armin has held the role of Principal Scientist at Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH in R&D and PD since 2016. After his PhD, he started his career in the R&D department of Ciba-Geigy in 1995. During his time at Ciba, Novartis, and Ciba Specialty Chemicals, he was head of laboratories for organic trace-analysis, GLP & GMP analytics, where he was responsible for impurity profiling, migration studies, E&L investigations, development of GMP quality control methods, and stability testing. After 2010 he worked as a consultant and Qualified Person (QP) for Intertek in Switzerland.
Armin is a lecturer and trainer in E&L at conferences and seminars and is a member of various industry consortia (BPSA, BPOG, DECHEMA, MIT BioMan). Since this year, he has been the nominated Chairperson of the Pharmacopeia expert group 16 in the European Directorate for Quality of Medicine (EDQM).