Chemistry: Careers Programme: (CP14) Careers in the Service Industry (1L)

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Dr Alan Gundle FIchemE and Dr Victoria Jones

Session Summary: RSSL is a contract analytical sciences company serving the food, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Having Mondelēz International as a parent company means that a portion of the work involves fascinating products such as Cadburys chocolate and Philadelphia cream cheese. In this session the presenters will explain the work of a contract analytical company through the lens of RSSL and explain how analytical chemistry adds intellectual and financial value to organisations.

Speaker Biography: Victoria Jones joined the RSSL contract laboratories directly after completing a degree in Chemistry and a D.Phil. in Inorganic Chemistry from Jesus College, Oxford. She started out in the Pharmaceutical Laboratory running and designing tablet dissolution studies and managing the stability storage facilities before moving to the Physical Sciences laboratory with a greater exposure to food analysis. Becoming Laboratory Manager of that department, and also the Metals Department preceded a move to work for the parent company, Mondelēz. Having recently completed an MA in Applied Business Management, Vicki is now a Senior Group Leader in the Ingredients Research group. Alan Gundle completed his MEng degree in Chemical Engineering studying at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He started his career with Kraft R&D in Munich, Germany, and has since lived in much of Europe whilst conducting research in a number of food categories before joining RSSL in 2012. He is now the Managing Director at RSSL and the Global Analytical Sciences lead for Mondelēz International.

Postgraduates in the Department of Chemistry

Number of sessions: 1

Lecture

1 hour