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Francesco Distante

Francesco Distante

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Manager of Business Development and Strategic Projects. Increasing Sulzer visibility on leads and opportunities in South East Asia, and drive our must-win strategic initiatives forward.

  • Education

    • Almo Collegio Borromeo di Pavia

      2010 - 2015
      Chimica

    • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

      2018 - 2018
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

    • Politecnico di Milano

      2015 - 2018
      PhD Candidate in Materials Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

    • Università degli Studi di Pavia

      2013 - 2015
      Laurea Magistrale LM in Chimica Chimica 110/ 110 e lode

      Tesi in Chimica Organica e Chemical Biology dal titolo: "​ Nitrile-oxides: 1,3-dipolar partners for bioothogonal ligation"

    • Università degli Studi di Pavia

      2010 - 2013
      Laurea triennale Chimica 110/110

      Tesi in Chimica Organica: "Chimica bio-ortogonale: reazioni di ligation per lo sviluppo di chemical probes"

  • Experience

    • Chemical Biology Summer School

      Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
      Visiting Student

      As selected student of University of Pavia, I attended the course "Protein modification in vitro and in situ: bioconjugation, bioorthogonal chemistry and activitybased protein profiling"

    • Università degli Studi di Pavia

      Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
      Tutor di Laboratorio di Chimica Analitica 3

      Gestione e organizzazione delle attività di laboratorio di un gruppo di studenti universitari

    • Leiden University

      Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
      Erasmus Master Student

      Bio-Organic Synthesis at Leiden Institute of Chemistry (Prof. H. Overkleeft)

    • Politecnico di Milano

      Mar 2017 - Oct 2018

      • phD student

        Nov 2015 - Oct 2018

      • Tutor di laboratorio chimica organica

        Mar 2017 - Jun 2017

    • IMTB 2017 (international congress)

      Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
      Poster presentation

    • AICIng 2017 (national congress)

      Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
      Oral presentation

    • Tetrahedron Symposium 2016 (international congress)

      Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
      Poster presentation

    • MYCS 2017

      Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
      Poster presentation

    • ETH Zurich

      Feb 2018 - Oct 2019

      • Research Assistant

        Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

      • PHD Fellow

        Feb 2018 - Oct 2019

    • Sulzer

      Nov 2019 - now

      Sustainability and Bio-based plastics

      • Manager of Business Development and Strategic Projects

        Nov 2024 - now

      • Business Development Manager

        May 2024 - Nov 2024

      • Senior Sales Application Engineer

        Sept 2023 - May 2024

      • R&D Eng. - Market Development Manager

        Jul 2022 - Sept 2023

      • Research And Development Engineer

        Nov 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Sulzer Core Skills e-learning program

      Harvard ManageMentor
      Dec 2021

    • IELTS CERTIFICATE

      Oct 2015

    • DELF B1

      Jun 2013

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Francesco Distante
      IDEA League Funding 2017 IDEA League Dec 2017 INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSPHIP:The IDEA League is a focused network of leading European universities of science and technology. Its members are TU Delft, RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich, Chalmers University and Politecnico di Milano.
    • Awarded to Francesco Distante
      EYCN Poster Award 2017 European Young Chemists' Network Nov 2017
    • Awarded to Francesco Distante
      Winner of the “Casella Scholarship for Exchange Programs”, awarded by Almo Collegio Borromeo Almo Collegio Borromeo 2014
    • Awarded to Francesco Distante
      Winner of the "C. Maestrello Scholarship" for the best chemistry student of the year University of Pavia 2013