BASF – R&D Test Engineer

• May 2013 to August 2015
• Effect Pigments Development Group for Personal Care Products
• Main responsibilities:
  • Help the evolve the newly restructured group into a research laboratory to help advance the team into an expert technical lab among the pigment industry
  • Effect pigments are pearlescent specialty pigments used in car paint, cosmetics and plastics to add visual appeal
    • The effect pigments generate color and luster from physical optical phenomenon rather than normal pigments using chemical absorption of light
    • The effect pigments have a complicated multiangle color characterization
  • Help start characterizing the pigments for color tolerances
  • Study the material characteristics of the pigments with advance techniques in optical microscopy and SEM
  • Published: “Enhancing skin radiance through the use of effect pigments” Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, Vol. 66, No. 3, 189-206
• Additionally I was a summer lab technician at BASF for the summer of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011