Dr. Frank Michel

Frank Michel received his diploma and PhD in Analytical Chemistry at University of Muenster/Germany. At Bernina Biosystems, a biopharmaceutical company, he developed and validated analytical HPLC and other methods for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), including excipients and drug products. Later Frank changed to SigmaAldrich 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 Nov. 2015 part of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) as Scientific Advisor for Analytical Chemistry. During his career, Frank focused already on Green Analytical Chemistry, e.g. by miniaturization in HPLC for solvent savings and the solvent-free extraction technology SPME. 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), member of the IUPAC project team “Greenness of official standard sample preparation methods” and of the EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation Study Group and Network.