MDPI Team

Julien Comat was born in 1984 in Paris, France. He studied for two years “Classes Préparatoires Grandes Ecoles” in Paris. He succeeded to enter in the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Troyes en Champagne, France. He graduated as a Master Degree of “Marketing, Commercial Studies and Business Management” in 2007. He studied also one year in 2005 at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. His professional career started at the AB-InBev company in Budapest, Hungary. There he was hired in the financial department, where he covered several positions, with escalating level of seniority, in the controlling and reporting areas. He joined MDPI in April 2010, where he is responsible for the overall Finance department.

Rodrigo De la Garza was born in 1981 in Mexico City, he holds a graduate degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Monterrey University of Technology in Mexico City and a Master’s Degree in Internet and Web Technologies from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia where he graduate with Distinction. In addition to his education, he holds a diploma in Telecommunications from the Institut National des Telecommunications (INT) in Paris, France. Furthermore from the Univerzita Karlova in Prague, Rodrigo was awarded a diploma in Culture, job Ethics-Principles.
He joined MDPI in August 2010 as a web engineer, where he is responsible for the overall performance of information technologies and format conversion systems.

Kathy Lai was born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China in 1983. She obtained a B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Engineering from the Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (2005) and a M.Sc. in Medicinal Chemistry from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (2008).

Shu-Kun Lin was born  in Hanchuan, Hubei Province, China. He graduated with BSc from Wuhan University in January 1982, majoring in inorganic chemistry, he studied physical chemistry in the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1982-1986, MSc in 1985) and in the USA (UofL, January 1987 to July 1989). He received his doctorate (organic chemistry) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zürich) in 1992 following studies over three years in the group of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Jaun, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry. In 1996, Shu-Kun Lin initiated the samples collection and exchange project (MDPI Samples Exchange), and founded the international organization, MDPI in Switzerland to implement this. In the same year he launched the first MDPI journal Molecules. In 2001 he became a professor at the Ocean University of China (OUC). He is the founder or co-founder of several other open-access journals: Entropy (1999), International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2000), Sensors (2001), Marine Drugs (2003) and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2004). He became the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Diversity in 2002 and held this position until his resignation in June 2007. He is the principal author of over 40 publications.

Dr. Brietta Pike was born in Melbourne, Australia. She obtained a B.Sc. in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of Melbourne (1997), an Honours degree in Biomedicine from the same University (1998), and a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Melbourne at St Vincent's Institute (2003). Brietta moved to Basel in 2006 for postdoctoral training at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Epigenetics. Brietta was awarded a HFSP Human Frontiers Science Program Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship to undertake this research. Brietta joined MDPI in February 2010 as a Production Editor. In February 2011 she was promoted to Managing Director and is currently responsible for the day-to-day management of MDPI operations in Basel. Brietta has published seven papers in international journals as the first author and has co-authored over 20 papers.

Xianhua Zhou was born on 12 November 1982 in Jiangxi, China. He graduated from Hunan Institute of Engineering in 2002. From 2003 until 2007, he worked for The Institute of Microbiology, as a software developer for the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then from September 2007 until the middle of 2011, he worked for The NetCircle as a senior software developer. He then joined MDPI in October 2011, holding the position of IT Manager.