CRS is proud to present the 2024-2025 Program Leadership
Simon Matoori
Director of Focus Groups
Simon Matoori is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Université de Montréal (Canada). His research interests are in formulation science and biomedical engineering with an emphasis on drug delivery and diagnostics.
Ruth Schmid
Director of ED&I
Ruth is a retired, former Vice President of Marketing at SINTEF Industry in Trondheim, Norway with special responsibility for the area of medical technology, including nanomedicine. Her research activities included the preparation and characterisation of micro- and nanoparticles by various technologies and from a wide variety of materials, including biodegradable polymers and hybrid materials, as well as the surface modification of polymers and polymer particles by wet-chemistry, to introduce tailor-made properties. She had a special focus on applied research and product orientated solutions. Fields of special interest were the emerging fields of nanomedicine, targeted drug delivery and release, nanotechnology-based diagnostics, and regenerative medicine, with a special focus on applications based on particle technology and surface modification. Application of encapsulation technologies and controlled release in various industrial segments, e.g. medicine, animal health, cosmetics, household and body care products, food and beverages, agriculture, etc. were another field of interest.
Ruth Schmid is a Swiss citizen living in Norway since 1979. She gained her Diploma (1975) and PhD (1979) in Natural Sciences at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. She is a member of ACS, CRS, and the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (Chair 2019-2021). She has been a member of CRS since 1998 and has had many different volunteer positions. She was on the Board of Directors from 2009-2018, both as Member-at-Large, Secretary, Treasurer and President (2016-2017). She served as Chair of the Women in Science Committee from 2019-2021 and is newly appointed Director of ED&I. She is married and has three adult children ages 31-40.
