Lucrèce Nicoud is the recipient of a fellowship from the Swiss National Foundation financing her current research on the crystallization of pharmaceutical ingredients at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a doctorate student of Professor Morbidelli at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) and graduated in 2015. Her Ph.D. focused on protein aggregation, and her research also dealt with the fundamental understanding of protein chromatography. Before joining ETH Zurich, she obtained a master degree in chemical engineering from École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (Nancy, France).