Kristien Janssen, PhD Pfizer

After her PhD in chemical engineering, Kristien started working at Pfizer Puurs as a Project Engineer in freeze drying. After more than 20 years, she is still working at Pfizer, mostly in the project engineering group, but also a few years as production support engineer for freeze dry and preparation.

In the engineering department, she has been, together with her group, involved in the purchase, installation, and validation of almost all commercial freeze dryers and automatic loading and unloading systems, first as a PE, now as a lead Engineer.

Dr. Janssen is the freeze dry technology expert of the site and is also a member of the Pfizer Global Lyo Network Steering Committee.