Carla Luciani

Carla Luciani received her B.S in chemical engineer from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She spent 4 years at University of Maryland, initially as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a research professor. She published dozens of articles, a patent, and presented in numerous conferences in the field of polymer reaction engineering & modeling. She joined Small Molecule Design and Development at Eli Lilly in 2011 as a process engineer. In 2014, she joined the process design and development group as the leader of the drug substance M&S group. In that role, she guided a group of chemical engineers and developed models for hybrid and continuous drug substance processes. She became an engineer advisor in 2016 and the leader of Future Manufacturing Platforms innovation capability. In this role, she supported innovation by identifying new technologies, helped established collaborations with academia and industry, and promoted the implementation of innovation for the manufacturing. She was the head of RNA-therapeutics at Lilly Cambridge Innovation Center. In 2020 she joined Vertex Pharmaceutical. She is currently a Sr Director and leads process development for late phase programs. At AIChE, she is currently the Chair Elect of Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum.