Dr. Philippe Verlinde received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2009. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven (Bioscience Engineering), conducting research in the field of food technology and analytics. From 2010 to 2013 he joined the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre as a scientific support officer and was involved in several research projects in the field of method standardization (CEN, ISO), proficiency testing and regulatory aspects of environmental pollutants and food safety. Due to his background, he has gained strong expertise in analytical chemistry, especially in the field of structural elucidation techniques (NMR, MS), method development and validation, and trace analysis by chromatography (GC & LC) hyphenated to mass spectrometry (small molecules). In 2013 he joined Toxikon Europe as an analytical expert and study director at the Pharma Department, focusing on impurity identification projects. Since 2016 he is acting as a senior scientist in the R&D team at Nelson Labs and is involved in automation projects and the development of state-of-the-art analytical services related to extractables and leachables studies for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
