Dr. Fredrik Nordstrom is the head of the Solid State Chemistry group and global Crystallization Network at Boehringer-Ingelheim and is located in Ridgefield, CT. His teams are responsible for the identification and characterization of solid forms of APIs and intermediates, development of scalable crystallization processes and resolution of solid state issues across the NCE pipeline. He earned his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in chemical engineering on the topic of solution crystallization. He began his industrial career at AbbVie in 2008 and joined Boehringer Ingelheim in 2016. His research interests are centered on crystalline solid solutions and mechanistic understanding of impurity rejection and solvent entrapment in crystallization. He is the author and co-author of >70 peer-reviewed publications and patents.