Dr. Standen joined Synthetech in March 2001 as a senior process development scientist and was named Technical Director in March 2003. From 1989 to 2001 Dr. Standen worked as a chemical process development scientist with Zeneca Agrochemicals, a global manufacturer of crop protection products. Prior to 1989, Dr. Standen spent 18 months as a post doctoral researcher in fluorocarbon chemistry at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. From 1985 to 1986 he worked as a postdoctoral Fulbright scholar at the Center for Fast Kinetics Research at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Standen holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. |