LUCIA D'AURIA

• Oversee end-to-end crystallography projects and daily CRO operations while leading key client interactions from scoping to invoicing. Contribute to company strategy, workflow optimisation, and high-throughput data collection to drive service quality, project delivery, and business growth.

• Managed client-facing crystallography projects in a CRO setting, serving as the primary point of contact for routine technical updates. Coordinated synchrotron data collection, experimental execution, and structure determination to ensure timely project delivery for biopharma clients

Biophysical and structural characterisation of two 4Fe-4S enzymes (IspG and IspH) in complex with their inhibitors to support rational drug discovery, under the supervision of Dr. Franck Borel. As part of the international MepAnti training network, completed collaborative research stays across leading European institutes.

• Internship, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative - Geneva, Switzerland 01/2023 - 02/2023

Homology modeling studies on TMEM16F ion channel, under the supervision of Dr. Charles Mowbray and Dr. Peter Sjo

• Visiting PhD Student, HIPS Helmholtz-Institut für Pharmazeutische Forschung Saarland - Saarbrucken, Germany 03/2022 - 05/2022

Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) fragment screening of IspD, a Mg2+ dependent enzyme, under the supervision of Prof. Anna Hirsch

• Visiting PhD Student, Université de Strasbourg - Strasbourg, France 09/2021 - 11/2021

Protein purification under anaerobic conditions (glove-box), under the supervision of Dr. Myriam Seemann

• Characterisation functional and structural aspects of cytochrome P450 using X-ray crystallography, UV-vis spectroscopy, and molecular biology techniques, contributing to understanding of enzyme mechanisms.