Vera Schroeder
Partner at Safar Partners
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$20,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Work Experience
2022
Board Member
2022
2019
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
2019
Board Observer
2019
2020 - 2022
Board Member and Vice President Of Programming
2020 - 2022
2014 - 2019
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
2015 - 2017
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"
2014 - 2014
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