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Vera Schroeder

Partner at Safar Partners

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

Work Experience

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Partner

    2019

  • Global Talent Fellow - Chemistry

    2021

    Open Avenues is a non-profit organization working to educate traditionally underrepresented student populations in the U.S. and inspire careers in STEM, business, and entrepreneurship. As a Global Talent Fellow at Open Avenues Foundation, I develop and lead Technology Transfer projects, helping students gain skills that are valued in spinning out technology companies from universities.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Observer

    2019

  • Board Member and Vice President Of Programming

    2020 - 2022

  • Ph.D. Candidate

    2014 - 2019

    Advisor: Prof. Timothy M. Swager Research focused on the development of carbon nanotube-based chemical sensors.

  • Environmental Health & Safety Officer

    2015 - 2017

    - Conducted weekly safety inspections, training of laboratory members, reviewed laboratory safety policies, and acted as primary contact point between laboratory and EHS office - First contact in case of accident in laboratory

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    2014 - 2015

    5.112 - Prinicples of Chemical Science 5.310 - Laboratory Chemistry

  • Assistant Editor, Synfacts

    2015 - 2017

    - Served as assistant editor to screen, select, evaluate, and summarize, recent advances in the organic chemistry field for the international review journal Synfacts - Wrote 36 contributions and acted as leader of the editor team for "Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products"

  • Research Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials

    2014 - 2014

    "PEDOT:PSS-based hybrid materials for optoelectronics applications" under the supervision of Professor Natalie Stingelin