Trixie Wagner | Lead Lab Informatics and Lab Automation
Novartis

An internationally experienced crystallographer, analytical chemist and passionate scientist with more than 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical research. Has led a diverse Analytics group for 13 years, integrated physicochemical properties and separation technologies and built up an automation team from scratch. Her curiosity and her passion for science, technology, processes and data have inspired the creation of a new group at her current workplace: Lab Informatics & Lab Automation (LILA). LILA’s mission is to catalyze the digital transformation of synthetic chemistry and build a machine-readable data culture. More formal version: Since 2022                  Lead Lab Informatics & Lab Automation (LILA)                                     Global Discovery Chemistry, Novartis Biomedical Research Basel (Switzerland) 2018 - 2022                Group Leader Analytics, PhysChem, Separations & Lab Automation (AXS)                                    Global Discovery Chemistry, NIBR Basel (Switzerland) 2016 - 2018                Group Leader Analytics, PhysChem & Separations (AXS)                                    Global Discovery Chemistry, NIBR Basel (Switzerland) 2014 - 2016                Group Leader Analytics & Physicochemical Properties (AXS)                                    Global Discovery Chemistry, NIBR Basel (Switzerland) 2009 - 2013                Group Leader Small Molecule Structure Determination (SMSD)                                    Analytical Sciences, NIBR Basel (Switzerland) 2002 - 2009                Labhead X-ray Crystallography                                    Analytical Sciences, NIBR Basel (Switzerland) 2000 - 2002                Application Scientist & Service Specialist Single Crystal Diffractometry                                    Bruker AXS, Karlsruhe (Germany) 1996 - 2000                Postdoc (Protein Crystallography)                                    Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia (USA) and University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA) 1992 - 1996                Ph.D. studies @ RWTH Aachen (Germany), Institute of Inorganic Chemistry 1986 - 1992                Chemistry studies @ RWTH Aachen (Germany)