Best TLC & HPTLC practices in pharmaceutical separations

​​​​​​​Dr. Monika Bäumle holds a doctoral degree in chemistry. She joined Sigma-Aldrich GmbH Switzerland in 2004 as a Senior Scientist in Research & Development (R&D)department. After a 2.5 years' experience as Lab Manager and Lab Group Manager in R&D, she has been appointed as Global Senior Product Manager for Bio-Analytics, Proteomics, and Biochemistry. Since April 2018, she is working as Global Product Manager for the Thin-Layer Chromatography portfolio in the life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

Michaela Oberle holds a bachelor's degree in Business Chemistry and started her career as a lab technician apprentice in 1992, at the life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Since then she has taken various responsibilities in different departments of the company. In 2012, Michaela Oberle was appointed as a R&D specialist in the “Thin layer chromatography” department of Advanced Analytics, with the responsibilities of product development, customer requests, TLC applications, and international trainings for TLC issues.

Dr. Melanie Broszat is a Scientific Business Development Manager in the CAMAG Company. She did her Ph.D. in molecular biology and environmental microbiology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany. From 2010/03-2010/06, she worked as a Laboratory Engineer in the research department of University of Applied Sciences, Offenburg, Germany. During 2009/09-2010/02, she worked in the QA of a food company and between 2008/08-2009/08, as a Laboratory Engineer for the development of HPTLC methods in the food and environmental application fields. Meanwhile, between 2004/10-2008/08 she studied Process Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences, Offenburg, Germany.