Bara joined ICES in December 2007 and is heading the Corporate Services department. He has 25 years of experience in the administrative and human resources area. He was the Head, Administration, Corporate Development Division at EDB (Economic Development Board) Singapore, before joining ICES. At EDB, he was responsible for administration department in creating an inspiring workplace to enhance employees’ effectiveness and providing a compelling physical work environment with professional Admin support services. He received many awards during his employment at EDB, including the Glaxo-SmithKline EDB Scholarship Award in 1993 and the National Day Award in 2007. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Psychology & Management) from Monash University, Victoria, Australia. He did his Masters in Applied Psychology from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Mr. Ravi joined GINTIC (predecessor to SIMTech-A*Star) in 1995 and headed the Advanced Polymer Processing Lab for about 7 years. In this capacity, he was responsible for growing the capabilities of the group and developing advanced technologies for industry applications as well as forging collaborations with leading polymer research centres world-wide. In 2002, he joined the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) to spearhead industry engagements for IHPC. During his tenure, he initiated several key industry initiatives for IHPC including Joint Labs (most notably with HP Labs and Fujitsu), Public-Private Partnerships and forged several long-term collaborative relationships with key industry partners from various sectors.

Ravi did his post-graduate studies in Polymer Science and Technology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has several years of working experience in the private sector – mainly with General Electric Consumer Electronics and Philips in Singapore.

Professor Paul Sharratt is a Principal Scientist at ICES and recently became the Program Manager of the Process Science and Modelling group. Following a first degree in Cambridge, he was awarded a PhD for work in catalytic reaction engineering (1987) from UMIST (now the University of Manchester). He then spent 4 years working for Imperial Chemical Industries as a process engineer, gaining experience in research, development, design and operation in manufacture of agrochemicals and other low tonnage (batch) products. He returned to UMIST in 1991 and was promoted to a full Chair in 2001. He was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering / EPSRC Chair in Innovative Manufacturing for the period of 2001-6 for work in support of innovation in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. He retains an honorary chair in Manchester, and also holds one in the Universidad Major de San Marcos in Lima, Peru.

His research interests lie in process development, innovation and knowledge management - looking at ways to develop better products and processes through interdisciplinary work and the application of good science. He enjoys working across the business/technology interface and seeing his work being picked up and used by industry - for example the process understanding methods he developed with BRITEST organisation that are now widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr Armando Borgna is a Senior Scientist at ICES and Program Manager of the Applied Catalysis group. He also holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina (1983) and his Ph.D. from the same University (1987). From 1987 until 1990 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (IRC- CNRS), Villeurbanne, France. In 1991 he was appointed Professor and Researcher of CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina) at the Institute of Research on Catalysis and Petrochemistry (INCAPE), Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands. He was Visiting Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (USA) and in the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at the Universidad of Zaragoza (Spain). He was awarded an ACS fellow (1997) and Fulbright Fellow (1999). He has been involved in research on Catalysis and Materials Science for more than 15 years. His research interest is in the area of heterogeneous catalysis and the goal of his research is to understand the relationship between the catalytic performance and the microscopic structure and composition of the catalytic materials.

Dr Wu Jinchuan is a Senior Scientist and Program Manager of the Industrial Biotechnology group. He got his PhD from Tianjin University (China) in 1994 and had once worked in Kanazawa University (Japan) as an Associate Professor from 1998-2000 and in Tianjin University as a full Professor before he joined ICES in 2002. His current research of interest is production of fuels and chemicals from renewable resources.

Dr. Johannes is a Principal Scientist II and Head of Organic Chemistry for the Organic Chemistry Programme at ICES. Dr. Johannes also holds a joint appointment with the Experimental Therapeutics Center for BMRC and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Most recently, Dr. Johannes was one of the first employees for Forma Therapeutics in the US and as Director of Chemistry responsible for building the chemistry group in alignment with the drug discovery technologies. In 2008, Dr. Johannes relocated to Singapore from the US to establish the Singapore operations as site head for Forma (Singapore) Therapeutics Pte. Ltd. Prior to Forma Therapeutics, Dr. Johannes was Associate Director of Chemistry at Infinity Pharmaceuticals and was involved in the development of chemical technologies for early lead discovery for oncology, business development and supply chain management. As a highlight, Dr. Johannes led the DOS platform effort and managed collaborations with Amgen, Johnson and Johnson, and Novartis. His successful efforts generated over $50 million in revenue and over 200,000 complex DOS compounds that have generated significant and interesting discovery leads. Prior to joining Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Johannes was involved in de novo natural product synthesis for lead discovery in oncology and inflammation at Eisai Research Institute. Dr. Johannes received his Ph.D. at Boston College with Professor Amir Hoveyda developing asymmetric catalytic carbon-carbon bond forming reactions and applied these methodologies to natural product total synthesis. He received a B.S. from Guilford College in North Carolina.

Dr Ng Wai Kiong is Programme Manager for “Sustainable Processes for Specialty Chemical Products” and a Senior Scientist of Crystallisation and Particle Science. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Diplom Ingenieur (Chemical Engineering) from the Technical University of Clausthal in Germany supported by the GlaxoSmithKline- Economic Development Board (EDB) scholarship. After graduation, he joined the Industry Development Division of EDB. During the formative years of ICES, he was assigned to ICES and subsequently headed the Industrial Programme Development group. He has also worked several years in Sulzer Chemtech and managed the Applied Process Technology group. His research interests are in novel formulations and processes, particle technology, preformulation characterisation and process analytical technologies.

Doris Tan was appointed as Laboratory Manager to take charge of Technical Support operation. She establishes a competent team to manage central laboratory equipment, provide maintenance, training as well as assisting in methodology development. She supervises Technical Support team to provide core support on gas and water management, equipment and accessories repair. Apart from setting up the Chemical and Glassware Accessories Stores, she helps to set direction and organises the mechanical workshop to provide tooling fabrication to support the R&D development. In addition, she supervises a team of 16 safety coordinator (ALO) to maintain the R&D labs for compliance to Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) act. She is also involved in the establishment of ICES Occupation Safety and Health Management System (OHS) and provides technical improvement on safety and laboratory facility related activities to R&D teams. Before joining ICES in 2003, Doris has worked several years in GE Betz and Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB). She has good experience in lab management, material characterisation and providing technical consultancy to industries.