
Sustainability and Training Specialist
at Merck
Dr. Frank Michel received his diploma and PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Muenster, Germany. At Bernina Biosystems, a biopharmaceutical company, he developed and validated analytical HPLC and other methods for active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients and drug products. Later Frank moved to Sigma-Aldrich and had various roles in product development, marketing and customer education in analytical chemistry. After an engagement at HWI Analytik, an analytical service provider for the pharmaceutical industry, he returned in 2010 to Sigma-Aldrich (since November 2015 part of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) as a scientific advisor for analytical chemistry, first in Europe then Asia-Pacific. During his career, Frank focused already on green analytical chemistry, for example, miniaturization in HPLC for the reduction of solvent consumption and waste creation as well as the solvent-free extraction technology solid phase microextraction. Since 2022 he is responsible for sustainability and training in chemistry at Merck. Frank is a member of both the Sustainable Chemistry and the Separation Science working group in the German Chemist Society (GDCh) as well as a member of the IUPAC project team “Greenness of official standard sample preparation methods” and the EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation Study Group and Network.
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