Dr. Stefan Randl

Stefan is an organic chemist by education. He obtained his diploma in chemistry at the University of Bonn, Germany, and his PhD at the Technical University of Berlin. After a postdoctoral research stay at Columbia University in New York, he started his professional career at Novartis in Switzerland in the field of drug discovery with a focus on proteases. Stefan then moved on to Evonik as a project manager and process chemist. During this time, he gained extensive experience in managing chemical R&D projects and transferring them to production scale. After spending 3 years in Tokyo, Japan, being responsible for the Asian-Pacific Health Care sales department, he took over his current position in Germany as Vice President, R&D for Evonik Health Care, a business line of Evonik focusing on complex API manufacturing services, pharma and food ingredients and drug delivery technologies.