Dr. Salvador Garcia Muñoz

Biography

Salvador Garcia Muñoz is a Senior Engineering Advisor at Eli Lilly Company and an Adjunct Faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads the efforts in building Digital Design capabilities in the small molecule design development organization at Eli Lilly. Dr. Garcia Muñoz has played a significant role in the development and commercialization of new medicines, influencing both internal and external key players to incorporate essential elements of chemical engineering and mathematics into the regulatory frameworks that govern pharmaceutical manufacturing. Prior to his current position, he spent nine years at Pfizer Global R&D as a member of the process modeling engineering technology group, where he contributed to the scale-up and transfer of drug product manufacturing processes through modeling and simulation data analytics. Before his pharmaceutical career, he worked at Aspen Technology as a business support engineer, providing consulting services in modeling, simulation, and real-time data management. He also serves as a visiting professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College of London, teaching an intensive course on Process Analytics using Multivariate Tools. His research interests include multivariate statistics, dynamic modeling, process monitoring, fault detection, applications of advanced control, data analytics, experimental design, and optimization of hybrid modeling.

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