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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.