Intro: Lubrizol Personal and Home Care innovation would not be possible without our brilliant scientists and researchers. This is the latest in a series of profiles of the men and women behind our products.

Scientist: Fan Yang

Title: Innovation Scientist

Years with Lubrizol: 5

Location: Lewisville, TX, USA

Education: Doctoral degree in chemistry at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Years of experience: 15

Focus: As an innovation scientist, Fan is responsible for developing technologies and implementing new analytical methods to provide innovative solutions to product development challenges in skin care. In addition to research and development of global pipeline projects, as a technology ambassador, she promotes new technologies and developments into APAC and India regional teams and promotes geographic business expansion. She also takes on the role of project coordinator, managing all aspects of the botanical active ingredients pipeline projects.

Recent accomplishments: Fan is a technical lead specializing in botanical active ingredients and analytical method development to promote global projects initiation & launch. She has built up a library of botanical active ingredients not only for skin care, but also for nasal care and oral care.

Recently she successfully developed and validated a microplate spectrophotometer method to quantify total polyphenols and total flavonoids in active ingredients. This method dramatically reduced bench time, hazardous chemicals and reagents compared to previous tedious analysis methods in lab. In addition to being applied to R&D and QC to promote the development of pipeline projects and production, this method also facilitates the optimization and development of the Phenobio^TM technology extractor in manufacturing.

Quote: In today’s business environment, nothing is constant, only change. To me, change means challenges and opportunity. Change inspires innovation. Innovation leads to success. As a scientist, I embrace change and keep seeking exploration and innovation.

Meet the Minds: Fan Yang