Technical Team
Corina-Mihaela Manta, Dr. Eng. (Technical Director)
Corina Manta is part of SARA Pharm team since 2012. She is currently Technical Director at SARA Pharm Solutions, Bucharest, Romania. She received her M.Sc. degree in Advanced Separation and Purification in 2011 and defended her Ph.D in 2012 from University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemical Engineering Department. Her expertise includes solid state pharmaceuticals, optimization process, analytical techniques and organic synthesis. Also, she has expertise in project management and implementation (POS CCE SARELCAT SMIS Code 45567 and as Project Responsible in AMD-FARMA-MED project, SMIS Code 105725 in collaboration with National Institute of Materials Physics). Currently she is involved as Project Responsible in H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 (CLATHROPROBES 778245). Corina was awarded in 2019 a MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE Fellowship as part of the EU-funded CLATHROPROBES project. Also, she obtained in 2020 a graduation certificate as a quality auditor (COR 214130) recognized by Ministry of Education and Research and Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, respectively.
Adrian Barbatu, Dr. Eng.
Adrian Barbatu joined SARA Pharm in May 2016. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Politehnica University of Bucharest. He had an Erasmus scholarship at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, and he won several prizes at national chemistry contests. At SARA Pharm Adrian is involved in the solid state studies that the company performs, including polymorph screening, salt screening, amorphous solid dispersions etc. His main interests are HPLC and PXRD analyses. He was involved as sub-activity 2 responsable in AMD-FARMA-MED project, SMIS Code 105725 in collaboration with National Institute of Materials Physics). Currently, he is involved in H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 (CLATHROPROBES 778245). Adrian was awarded in 2018 a MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE Fellowship as part of the EU-funded CLATHROPROBES project.
Maria–Andreea Lungan, Dr. Eng.
Andreea Lungan joined SARA Pharm in April 2018 as Research Scientist. Andreea was granted two Erasmus Socrates scholarships at “Heinrich Heine” University, Dusseldorf, Germany, studying high performance macromolecular materials. In 2014 she successfully defended her PhD thesis in Material Engineering at “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection. During her doctoral studies she collaborated with “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Department of Functional Polymers, working on controlled drug delivery systems. She was involved as sub-activity 1 responsable in AMD-FARMA-MED project, SMIS Code 105725 in collaboration with National Institute of Materials Physics). Currently, she is involved in H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 (CLATHROPROBES 778245). Andreea was awarded in 2019 a MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE Fellowship as part of the EU-funded CLATHROPROBES project.