The research studio
Team

A small table of specialists.

The house is kept exact by the people who sit with the work — operations, clinical reading, formulation, devices, medical and scientific direction.

The team

The people of the house.

Operations and the research studio — kept small so the skincare can stay exact. Medical and scientific direction sit at the same table.

Sofia Morel

Sofia Morel

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Sofia Morel has more than 10 years of experience in international market expansion and brand development. She completed a bachelor’s degree in business administration in Lausanne in 2011.

Throughout her career, she has worked with internationally recognized brands, including Louis Vuitton, Burberry, L’Oréal, and Estée Lauder, supporting their growth across major European and Asia-Pacific markets.

Since joining Angel Skincare Medical Center in 2021, Sofia has led operations for the house’s skincare work and its expansion into North American and European markets. She brings a long practice in operations, management, and international business development.

Dahlia Miller

Dahlia Miller

Vice-President

Dahlia Miller is a molecular and cellular biologist. She trained at ESBS in Strasbourg and completed a PhD in bioengineering at EPFL, later co-founding ExCellness Biotech SA — a path from the bench into the institute’s leadership.

Sandra Ansanay-Alex

Sandra Ansanay-Alex

Chief Medical Officer

Sandra Ansanay-Alex is a board-certified dermatologist with clinical and regulatory vision. She holds the medical-compliance and clinical-validation system — from trial design to the claims a formula is allowed to speak.

Muana Minkoué

Muana Minkoué

Chief Scientific Officer

Muana Minkoué is a biochemist and chief scientific officer. Trained at Cambridge, he has led transdermal delivery research — nano-liposomes, autophagy activators — and keeps the house’s skincare science at an international height.

Ana Pinto

Ana Pinto

Clinical reading

Ana Pinto reads how medical cosmetics behave on living skin. She studies application against laboratory and partner reports and returns that evidence to formulation, so the bench is corrected by the skin it claims to serve — not as a treating physician, and not from a waiting room.

Sacha Sidjanski

Sacha Sidjanski

R & D Medical Consultant

Sacha Sidjanski is an R&D medical consultant with a long practice in medical cosmetics. He studies the application and safety of active ingredients, and gives the laboratory the clinical reading it needs before a formula is named.

Anne-Renée Leyvraz

Anne-Renée Leyvraz

Medical Cosmetology Expert

Anne-Renée Leyvraz works at the meeting of medical cosmetology and formulation. She studies how technique and material share a protocol — especially where aging and pigmentation ask the laboratory for a quieter answer.

Collaboration

Partners in the work.

Experts who sit with the research — manufacturing, plant actives, and medical aesthetics.

Denis Cavin

Denis Cavin

Smart manufacturing

Denis Cavin is an authority on medical-grade cosmetic production and a smart-manufacturing consultant. He reads GMP as a living standard and has helped the institute tighten the path from raw material to finished pack.

Lily Rose Wilson

Lily Rose Wilson

Plant actives

Lily Rose Wilson researches natural plant actives and founded an organic raw-material house. She supplies the laboratory with extracts that can be both mild and exact, and takes part in formula development when a plant has something to prove.

Christophe Allemann

Christophe Allemann

Medical aesthetics

Christophe Allemann is a dermatologic surgeon and president of the International Medical Aesthetics Institutions Alliance. He brings clinical method and an international reading of the field into the institute’s product research.