Our Team
Our team is the most valuable thing we have; in fact our experience and know-how is almost all we have. As you will see it’s very international: 12 people, 5 countries. And this without taking into account our scientific advisory board (which is completely international).
So here we are, managers, personnel and collaborators. Remember that you can read our Mestrelab Blog and Carlos NMR Blog to keep in touch (and discuss) with us.
Founders
He was born in Santiago de Compostela in 1971, were he started programming in the early eighties. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela. After spending a year at the University of Leicester (U.K.) under the supervision of Dr. Paul R. Jenkins, he returned to the University of Santiago, where he obtained an M.Sc. degree in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 2000. At the end of 2004, after 8 years working on the MestReC project, he took the decision to spin off from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and launch MESTRELAB RESEARCH.
Santi was born in Madrid in 1971. He received his BA in Business Studies from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1994. For the last 10 years, he has resided in the UK, where he occupied positions of increasing responsibility in the American multinational NCH. Initially with a sales and customer service background, he has acquired extensive experience in sales and marketing, general management and company start-ups and has also held a directorship in an import and retail business. His main business interests are the launch of new, dinamic businesses and the building of long-term relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and all other stakeholders.
He was born in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1958. He was trained as a synthetic organic chemist at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he received both his B.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees. From 1986 to 1988 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the laboratory of the late Prof. Henry Rapoport. Currently, he is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Santiago and his research interests range from asymmetric organic synthesis to the development of scientific computer software.
Personnel
Sales and Customer Support
Our Sales and Customer Support team is aimed to deliver excellence and value to our customers. How? Offering them the best solution we have and solving their cases and doubts in less than 24 hours
Dr. Chen Peng is Vicepresident of Business Development for US and China since he joined MESTRELAB RESEARCH in May 2008. He was born in China in 1967, and got his B.Sc. in Organometallic Chemistry from Wuhan University in 1987. He obtained his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry with a thesis work on computer-assisted structure elucidation for organic compounds and natural products using 1D and 2D NMR data. Between 2004 to 2006, he did post-doctoral research work in Prof Geoffrey Bodenhausen’s group in the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in 1994-1996. Between 1996 to 1998, he worked as the main developer of NMR-SAMS, the first commercial software product for structure elucidation, in Spectrum Research. From 1998 to 2005, he worked as a senior software product developer for Felix in Molecular Simulation Inc (Accelrys). From 2005 to 2008, he worked as a senior software developer and product manager for NMR related tools in the KnowItAll software package of Bio-Rad Informatics.
Cristina Geada’s focus at Mestrelab is the delivery of excellent service and value to customers since she joined MESTRELAB RESEARCH in May 2005. She was born in London to Galician parents. She received her BA in French & Hispanic Studies from King’s College London in 2000. She began her career in an international customer service/sales role with a New York based company in London. She moved to Spain in 2003 to work for a Spanish transport agency, responsible for setting up new accounts with European suppliers and carriers, and negotiating regular terrestrial routes.
Pablo Monje is our Applications Chemist since February 2007. He was born in Oviedo (Spain) in 1978. He received his B.S. in Organic Chemistry in 2001 at the University of Santiago de Compostela where he joined Javier Sardina´s research group to work in the field of Stability of the Organolithium Compounds and Asymmetric Organic Synthesis. From 2002 to 2006 he was a grant holder of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (FPU). In 2004 he worked in Trauner´s group at the University of California, Berkeley and he returned to Spain to obtain his Ph.D. degree in the last year of the research fellowship.
Developers
Our developers team is managed by Carlos, Santi and Nikolay Larin.
Scientific advisory board
Dr. István Pelczer is a native of Hungary, where he received his education and degrees, and started working on NMR spectroscopy projects. After several years spent at research institutions, mostly in the field of drug research, he moved to Syracuse, NY, in the US in 1989, by the invitation of Prof. George Levy. After about seven years he transferred to the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, where he has been working since, as Sr. NMR Spectroscopist.
He has visited several laboratories, including those of Jeremy Sanders, Cambridge, U.K., Ad Bax at NIH, Heinz Ruterjans, Frankfurt, Germany, and Alberto Spisni, Parma, Italy. His activity covers diverse applications of NMR spectroscopy, from structure and dynamics of biomolecules, ligand binding and ligand screening, through technical issues of multidimensional NMR and data processing, as well as methodology and applications of metabolic analysis..
Dr. Stan Sykora. (Extra Byte) Physicist (Dr.Ing.) and physical chemist (Ph.D.) and expert in spectroscopy (NMR, IR, Raman).
Dr. Sykora is a world-wide recognized expert in simulation and manipulation of spectrometry and molecular data; with publications about this since 1967. Currently he is developing new systems of quantum simulation in NMR data; and advanced digital data processing of noisy data in Spectroscopy.
Dr. Manuel Pérez Pacheco holds a Chemistry Degree by the University of Salamanca, where he also carried out his Graduate Project, at the Organic Chemistry Department, in Cyclopropane Synthesis, between 1999-2000.He achieved his PhD with Prof. R.J.Abraham (Proton NMR prediction of Amides and Peptides) at University of Liverpool, between 2000-2004. He currently holds a position as Senior NMR spectroscopist at Pfizer 2004-present. His main interests are: NMR prediction approaches and automated data analysis, hyphenated analytical techniques (LC-NMR-MS).
Dr. Michael Bernstein received his Ph. D. in Physical Biochemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of British Columbia, for his work on ‘Chemical and Spectroscopic Studies of Complex Organic Molecules’, supervised by Prof. Laurie Hall. He has over 20 years experience in solution-state NMR having worked for Merck Frosst Canada, Montréal QC, where he was responsible for the site requirements for high-resolution NMR, and currently holds a position with AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood, Loughborough, UK, where he is responsible for NMR requirements at the site (over 150 chemists).
Michael has many NMR interests, including pulse sequences, NMR hardware, compound conformation, and protein-drug interactions, with a strong interest in the characterisation of compounds at low concentration, especially as applied to metabolite and drug substance impurity identification. In software, visualisation of large volumes of data generated by NMR of plate chemistry samples and automation to support the chemists’ walk-up service. Recent interests continue with conformation, especially to explore the potential of new methods based on RDCs. A second strong interest lies with monitoring reaction progress using NMR and optimisation of reactions by the ability of NMR to report on more subtle aspects of speciation.
Dr. Carlos Pacheco, Sr. NMR Spectroscopist at Princeton Univeristy.
Dr Carlos Pacheco is a native of Brazil. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island, within the Dan Traficante Research Group. After a number of years working for the Military Institute of Engineering in Rio de Janeiro and for the NMR Department of the Petrobras R&D Center, he moved to Princeton University in January 2000, where he has managed the NMR Laboratory since.
