Biography
Manuela started her career with an apprenticeship as a chemical lab technician at Ciba Specialty Chemicals. After a few years working in industry, she obtained a bachelor and master degrees in chemistry from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and the University of Basel, respectively.
While being interested and trained as an organic chemist, she’s has always been passionate about the application of chemistry within the health sciences. Therefore, for her PhD she specialised in medicinal chemistry, with the aim to contribute to improving health within our society. Manuela is a lab head in the medicinal chemistry theme at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, where her research interests are in the development of chemical probes and small molecule drugs.
