Karl Fischer Titration Series

Bettina is the global franchise product manager and lead expert for titration at Merck. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the instrumental analysis business, especially with Karl Fischer Titration, general Titration, Reference Materials and Diagnostics. Her responsibilities include improving and simplifying titration processes, drive new technologies and advancing applications and reagents.

She works always closely together with the QC and application laboratories for titration as well as with the R&D department to develop titration continuously. Bettina is a graduated engineer and holds a degree in Chemical Technology from the University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt Germany and a degree as Medical Technical Laboratory Assistant from the Medical Technical Academy Esslingen, Germany.

Michael Margreth studied chemistry at the University of Applied Science in Muttenz, Switzerland. He joined Metrohm in 2005 as an application specialist and gained titration experience in the application laboratory. Since 2008 he mainly focuses on Karl Fischer titration and the determination of water.

Dr. Shailly Krishna Rajusth is the Global Product Manager for Physical & Chemical Property Standards including water testing standards. She is part of our Advanced Analytical Reference Materials team, located in Bangalore/India. In her current role she works closely with QC, R&D & respective application areas of these products to improve & develop this portfolio. She has nearly 10 years of experience in Digital Marketing, Scientific Content Writing, Quality & Regulatory Department. Dr. Shailly has completed PhD in Analytical chemistry & holds a Masters degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

 Thomas Hitz studied biochemistry at the University of Zurich and completed his PhD in 2003 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in the Department of Material Sciences and Post Doctorat in 2006. He provides market support at Mettler-Toledo and has more than 15 years' experience in application development, sales and customer training, and as a technical advisor for product development. He provides support for complex automation solutions and is an expert in automated Karl-Fischer titration. 

Angela is a chemical laboratory engineer in the Life Science R&D department at Merck. She has more than 15 years’ experience in modern volumetric titration and Karl Fischer titration and is responsible for new development of reagents and standards in the field of volumetric titration and Karl Fischer titration.