{"id":24291,"date":"2023-09-06T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=24291"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:31:22","slug":"dr-benedict-barron","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/our-experts\/dr-benedict-barron\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Barron"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24291\" class=\"elementor elementor-24291\" data-elementor-post-type=\"leadership\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cb232aa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"98650\" data-id=\"cb232aa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-81cb0b1\" data-eae-slider=\"73399\" data-id=\"81cb0b1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1527c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e1527c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Originally from London, Ben undertook a Master\u2019s degree in Chemistry at the University of Bristol and was awarded first degree honours.<\/p><p>This was followed by the completion of a PhD in Chemistry hosted internationally between Imperial College, London, and the University of Hong Kong. This work focussed on asymmetric Michael type reactions and methodologies in organic chemistry.<\/p><p>On completion of his PhD, Ben joined a contract research organisation, Domainex, as a synthetic chemist and worked here for just under two years. After this, he moved to GSK and spent 4 years working as a process chemist. Here he worked on route optimisation and scale up activities for multiple pharmaceutical assets, supporting large scale (up to 70 kg) manufacturing campaigns.<\/p><p>Additionally, he took an interest in safety roles within the process chemistry department, gaining valuable insight into safety management, matrices and procedure in a pharmaceutical environment. This ranged from Gemba and Management Monitoring activities, conduction and review of genotoxic risk assessments and volunteering as a first responder to chemical incidences and emergencies.<\/p><p>Ben joined Hawkins in 2023 and is an A2 Certificate of Competence (A2CofC) certified drone pilot. 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