Belgium
I am a Chartered Chemical Engineer with a PhD in Microreaction Engineering from UCL. My industrial experience stems from a career in R&D pharmaceuticals and consumer goods including Merck Sharp & Dohme, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen).
Hybrid Functional Scientific Integrator & Process Engineer within Drug Product Development. Focus on extended release platforms / combination products (drug-device) / long acting injectables. The role combines project leadership, process engineering and applied innovation within.
Optimization and innovation of the DPD technology platforms.
(Incorporating COTY) - Leading the technical qualifications of new product launches (multi £m) from concept to market. - Strengthening the product and process development capabilities. - Scoping future disruptive innovation platforms. - Recipient of an award for a platform technology invention (Patented)
Led the transition to a new curriculum, forming the new engineering faculty-wide Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP), implemented for the first time within the UCL Engineering School. Awarded inaugural IChemE Sustainability Teaching Award. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Doctoral research in microfluidics / multiphase catalysis / continuous flow / micro-reaction engineering. Project Title: Heterogeneously Catalysed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols in Microstructured Reactors Research Highlights: - Developed high precision scientific experimental systems and novel analytical technologies for the study of challenging and hazardous alcohol oxidation reactions. - Improved reaction performance for the green catalytic oxidation of alcohols in flow reactors by manipulation of hydrodynamics (product selectivity of 93% achievable outperforming batch reactor performance). - Keynote speaker at the UK Catalysis Conference (2016); speaker at international conferences including the International Symposium of Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE) in Bangkok (2014) and the International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET) in Budapest (2014). - Published research in scientific journals, including an invited review article on the current status of micro-reaction technology and its applications for the design of catalytic processes (Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering Journal).
Development of controlled and immediate-release oral solid dosage formulations. Merck's Centre of Excellence for Controlled Release.