Renata Pocitarenco is a Scientist at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Switzerland. She received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Chemical and Process Engineering from University of Padova, Italy, in 2019 and 2021 respectively, focusing on process control, chemometric and statistical modelling. She joined J&J during her Master’s with a project in Advanced Process Control and since then worked on various Modeling projects aimed at delivering value in pharmaceutical commercial manufacturing. She is passionate about both mechanistic and data-driven modelling as tools to enhance and optimize pharmaceutical industrial processes.