Since 2020, he is driving formulation and process development for early pipeline development projects at Bayer AG in Wuppertal, Germany, as Head of Laboratory in Drug Product Development for parenteral drugs. Before joining Bayer, Julian spent four years as PhD student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich, Germany) in the group of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Winter at the chair of pharmaceutical technology. Here he successfully investigated and published several papers on novel technologies like microwave-assisted freeze-drying or controlled ice nucleation. Previously, Julian studied Pharmacy at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (University of Kiel, Germany) and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Besides Julian is an active member in societies and consortia like Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) and BioPhorum.