Leo Betschart | Information Consultant Chemistry
ETH Zurich

Leo Betschart joined the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center at ETH Zurich (ETHZ) in September 2018 as an Information Consultant Chemistry. Originally from central Switzerland, he had spent his undergraduate years at ETHZ with a focus on organic and bioorganic chemistry. After a masters thesis project at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego and a traineeship in medicinal chemistry at Novartis in Basel, he returned to ETHZ for a doctoral degree in natural product synthesis. Afterwards, he set out to do postdoctoral research at UBC in Vancouver and was involved in a project at the interface of carbohydrate chemistry, enzyme kinetics and chemical biology. He has a broad background of IT-Tools from the perspective of a scientist and is now heavily involved in teaching information literacy skills at ETH Zurich. Other areas of work include internal scientific information consulting and electronic laboeratory journals for chemists, biology and pharmaceutical sciences.