Penelope Zorzi , Dr.

Dr. Penelope Zorzi is Product Workflow Manager Health and Clinical Microscopy at Leica Microsystems. She holds a doctorate in Biomedical Science from the University of Verona, Italy and completed her post-doc at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She has a decade of experience working as a research scientist and project manager in immunology, genomics as well as pathology. Following a first experience in cancer immunotherapies in pharmaceuticals, she decided to move into marketing and sales, received training in digital marketing in Milan, Italy and in data-driven marketing at Stanford University in California, USA. In most recent years, she completed a product management certification from Product School of Seattle, participated in a Data Science Bootcamp, and held a product management position in design and building materials. Currently, Dr. Zorzi is part of the Applied Business Unit at Leica Microsystems, where she collaborates with product development and is responsible for providing insights on pain points and needs of internal and external target groups as well as industry expertise and knowledge.