Dr. Kristina Manhardt is Director Project Business Injectable Formulation & Manufacturing Services EMEA at Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH, Germany. In this position she is responsible for business development and project coordination related to parenteral formulation projects.
She joined Evonik 2014 as Regional Sales Manager.
After completing her pharmacy studies at the University of Graz, she earned her PhD at the University of Leipzig in the field of pharmaceutical technology with a focus on tissue engineering and worked on the production of biodegradable microparticulate cell carriers.
From 2012 to 2014, she was Head of Pharmaceutical Development / Process Transfer and Deputy Manufacturing Director at RSP Laupheim with a focus on development and manufacturing of solid oral dosage forms.
She then joined Evonik as Sales Manager for Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In 2017 she took over her recent position as Director Project Business and since then works closely with the two Evonik sites in Birmingham (AL, US) and Burnaby (Vancouver, CAN), respectively, focusing on development and manufacturing of complex parenteral formulations.
Ms. Manhardt is a regular speaker at workshops, as well as author of several scientific publications.