Dr. Chiara Masellis

Lead and coordinate the development of laser products across multiple departments (engineering, software, application service, quality, documentation, PLM, and sales) and Coherent sites.

• Responsible for the technical feasibility, design, development, and testing of marking/cutting/welding products (i.e. definition and testing of beam delivery optics, safety mechanisms, laser operation). • Construction, qualification, and testing of prototypes and pilot laser systems. • Maintenance, failure analysis, and improvement of prototypes. • Transfer of projects and know-how to the production department.

• Company management (i.e. finance management, bookkeeping, advertisement, customer management). • Maintain long-term relations with customers, i.e. Winston J. Greene Academic Editing since March 2018. • Improve the overall readability of scientific papers. • Peer-review the content of the manuscripts. • Provide the customers with a flawless text ready to be submitted to their target journal.

• Worked on the commercialization of a patented method to identify glycans. This technique couples mass spectrometry and ion mobility to cold ion spectroscopy. • Supervised and coached young members of the research group to ensure know-how transfer.

•Inventor of a novel technique to identify and characterize glycans, patent application n. PCT/IB2017/055157. •Devised and led experiments involving home-built instruments and spectroscopic techniques with the aim of: -identifying and characterizing glycan isomers; - structurally characterizing peptides.

• Awarded with the EPFL Teaching Assistant Prize for the Quantum Chemistry course. • Tutored in English and French the Quantum Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Physique Générale I course, and the Experimental Physical Chemistry Laboratory of the Bachelor Program in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. • Supervised and graded exams and reports. • Worked on new methods to promote student learning and motivation by actively attending workshops organized by the EPFL Teaching Support Center.

•Thesis title: Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy of Peptides and Glycans. More details in the Project section. • Doctoral program in collaboration with the Max Planck Society. • Frequent exchange periods at Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin.

• Final Mark: 110/110 Cum Laude and Academic Distinction. • Thesis title: Hard X-ray spectroscopic study of the electronic structure and ligand environment of Zn in bovine Carbonic Anhydrase.

• Final Mark: 110/110. • Thesis title: Automatic search of lung cancer nodules in computer tomographies by using artificial intelligence algorithms based on virtual ants colonies.