Team
The people behind the method.
Deep crystallography and proven scale-up in one team – the scientists who shaped electron diffraction, alongside people who've built and scaled instrument companies before.
Leadership
James Berwick
Chief Executive Officer
James leads ELDICO as CEO, setting strategy and steering commercial and operational execution. He joined from scientific-instrument and deep-tech businesses, including LS Instruments and Nanosurf, and works from the company's Basel-area base.
Rolf Burgmer
Chief Technology Officer
Rolf is ELDICO's CTO, responsible for R&D, software and production. He brings around two decades leading cross-functional development and manufacturing in regulated medical-device and particle-accelerator technologies, and oversees the engineering behind the ED-1.
Danny Stam
Head of Commercial
Danny heads ELDICO's commercial organisation, leading sales of the ED-1 and the CRO structural-elucidation service. He is a frequent point of contact for pharmaceutical and materials customers and co-authors applied electron-diffraction case studies.
Jürg Keller
Chief Financial Officer
Jürg Keller is ELDICO's CFO, responsible for finance, cash-flow planning and financial operations as the company scales its instrument and CRO business.
Dr Colette Bichsel
Operations
Dr Colette Bichsel is a bioengineer (PhD) with more than five years across pharma and biomedical projects. She drives ELDICO's operational strategy, coordination and execution.
Commercial team
Your ELDICO contacts.
The people who scope your project, run the commercial conversation and stay with you from first enquiry to installed instrument or delivered service.
Eddy Martin
Sales Manager
Eddy supports customers evaluating the ED-1 and ELDICO's structural-elucidation services, from first enquiry through to project scope.
Gustavo Santiso-Quinones
Founder & Senior Scientist
A founder of ELDICO and a crystallographer (FU Berlin, EPFL, RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich), Gustavo helps customers scope electron-diffraction projects and interpret results, and previously co-founded the analytics venture Crystallise!.
Daniel Hartman
Head of Marketing
Daniel is an experienced marketer with a strong business-administration background, driving ELDICO's brand and go-to-market and pairing behavioural psychology with an evidence-led approach. He also leads the company's AI strategy.
Science & development
Dr Christian Jandl
Head of Science & Applications
Dr Christian Jandl leads ELDICO's science and applications work, including the CRO service. He holds a PhD in chemistry from TU Munich, specialises in X-ray and electron crystallography, and translates customer problems into structure solutions on the ED-1.
Dr Gunther Steinfeld
Founder & Principal Scientist
Dr Gunther Steinfeld is a founder and principal scientist/engineer, working on the diffractometer, device development and installations from the Basel site. He holds a PhD in chemistry (Freiburg) and over two decades in crystallography.
Dr Giorgia Fiorini
Application Scientist
Dr Giorgia Fiorini supports customer measurements and structure determination on the ED-1 and contributes to ELDICO's scientific content and video. She holds a master's in organic chemistry (Sapienza, Rome), with research experience at PSI and the University of Oxford.
Dr Nam Nguyen
Project Engineer
Dr Nam Nguyen is a physicist specialising in instrument automation. He leads high-throughput automation for the ED-1 – the work behind running electron diffraction as a routine, round-the-clock measurement.
Dr Yannik Fontana
Product Design
Dr Yannik Fontana is a materials scientist with more than ten years in quantum research. He drives the ED-1's product design – performance, reliability and ease of use.