Catherine Watkins

Catherine Watkins is an accomplished professional in the field of quality management and validation, currently serving as Senior Director of Global Product Quality at BioNTech SE since May 2023. Prior to this role, Catherine held various leadership positions at Lonza from January 2019 to May 2023, including Site Head of Quality, Head of Validation, and QA Manager for Computerized Systems Validation. Catherine's experience also includes roles at Vericel Corporation as Quality Systems Manager and Validation Engineer Supervisor, as well as positions at Sanofi and Bristol-Myers Squibb as a Validation Engineer. Catherine's early career featured work as a Sr. Research Support Specialist at The Research Foundation for SUNY. Catherine holds a Master of Science in Bioprocess Engineering from SUNY ESF and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire.