Meet The Team

Oliver

Dr. Oliver S. Lee

Chief Executive Officer

Oli is the co-founder of Digichem and servers as its Project Lead. He is also Digichem’s chief programmer, and is responsible for maintaining our code-base. A researcher in the field of optolelectronic materials, Oli finds himself drawn to projects that occupy the niche between synthetic and computational chemistry. He completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman, where the collaboration that lead to Digichem was first born. A self-taught programmer, Oli is fluent in Python and various web-languages, although he’d be the first to admit that he rarely finds call to program in PHP these days.

Eli

Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman

Chief Science Officer

One of the two co-founders of Digichem, Eli currently serves as our Chief Science Officer. Eli is a Professor of Optoelectronic Materials at the University of St Andrews. His research program focuses on the rational design of: (I) materials for organic light emitting diode (OLED) and light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEEC) device architectures; (II) sensing materials; (III) optical imaging agents; and (III) photocatalyst development for use in organic synthetic reactions. His experience and scientific expertise ensure we stay afloat in the turbulent sea of new science.

Vlad

Vlad Tataranu

Technical and Business Adviser

Vlad is Digichem’s Technical and Business adviser. He provides indispensable start-up advice and experience to the team. A prior employee of Google’s Area-120, Vlad is a software engineer and serial technical co-founder of software platform startups. He is committed to accelerating the deployment of Chemistry and Materials innovations, particularly those relating to green technologies, and was a natural fit for Digichem.