Dr. Chethana J Gadiyar is a chemical engineer by training. She has experience in performing wet lab experiments during her Ph.D. (EPFL) work specializing in colloidal nanoparticle synthesis for renewable energy applications. She began her professional career at Roche, where she was building mechanistic models for process development. She joined Merck in 2022 and has been leading the modelling strategies for bioprocess development and manufacturing.