
Barbara Wołek
Selvita Services, Poland
Biography
Barbara Wołek graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Modern Organic Synthesis and Physical Chemistry as well as in Geochemistry, Petrology and Mineralogy. Since 2009 she has been working at Selvita; currently a Team Leader at the Contract Chemistry Division. She has deep knowledge of organic chemistry, and significant know-how in route and process optimization, scale-up, library synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, metal-catalyzed cross coupling reactions, carbonylation, asymmetric synthesis and many others. she has acquired considerable experience working in multidisciplinary teams in the area of drug discovery, designing and synthesizing molecules to build knowledge about SAR and to improve their properties.