Roberto Vadrucci

Research and Grants Advisor @ University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW

About

Research & company advisor, project leader and process owner with 9+ years of broad post-PhD experience, in Switzerland and abroad. As an experienced leader/initiator of complex research, development and industrialisation projects, I am competitive and innovative. As an experienced project leader, I am able to manage internal stakeholders as well as external partners and therefore to continuously optimise goals, timelines and resources. As a global process owner and production operations support, I am able to improve existing or to introduce new structures and manufacturing processes worldwide, therefore contributing to a high performance and product quality. I am convinced that a strong collaboration with management, peers, collaborators, suppliers and customers is pivotal to achieving success.

Country

Switzerland

City

Basel

Industry

Industrial Automation

Skill

Research and Innovation Funding, Advising Companies, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Project Leadership, Collaboration, Industrialization, Stakeholder Management, Production Support, Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Patent Preparation, Research Funding, Leadership, University Teaching, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanomaterials, Polymer Chemistry, Characterization, Spectroscopy

Experience

Research and Grants Advisor

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Informing and advising researchers on national and international innovation funding opportunities such as Innosuisse or Horizon Europe instruments. Advising innovation funding recipients througout the project lifecycle on financial reporting, project management and legal issues.

Company Advisor Canton of Aargau

Euresearch

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Advising companies based in the Canton of Aargau on funding opportunities in Horizon Europe and other European programmes.

Expert Scientist Manufacturing Technology

Endress+Hauser Group

2022-6 - 2024-11 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Basel Metropolitan Area

Global process owner, production operations support and leader of development project teams for corrosion protection coatings, fluoropolymer lining and metal surface cleaning applied on flowmeters. Subject matter expert and global collaboration for other processes involving chemistry or materials, such as chemical compliance, approvals, custom manufacturing, supplier documentation & audits

Scientist Manufacturing Technology

Endress+Hauser Group

2019-12 - 2022-5 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Basel Area, Switzerland

see "Scientist Manufacturing Technology"

EU Horizon 2020, MSCA Individual Fellow

BASF SE

2018-2 - 2019-11 · 1 yr 10 mos

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Acquired funding for the industrialisation of patented materials. Formulation, application and characterisation of new acrylic coatings as well as inks.

Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Fellow

University of Cambridge

2016-5 - 2018-1 · 1 yr 9 mos

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Acquired research funding. Design and characterisation of structurally coloured, liquid crystalline cellulosic formulations for large-area sensors by roll-to-roll processing.

Research Assistant

Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg

2011-9 - 2015-12 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Fribourg, Switzerland

PhD work involving organic materials, polymers, photophysics, organic synthesis and knowledge transfer to industry. Thesis title: "New organic materials for low-intensity light upconversion