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Materials and Processes
Visiting Professor
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Materials and Processes
Prof Dr Bindhu Gururajan is Senior Principal Scientist (Fellow) for Formulation and Process Development and a High Performance Pharmaceutical Development Formulation Project Leader in Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland. He has done his Masters in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of Birmingham, U.K. Later did his Post-Doctoral research in Pharmaceutical Sciences with University of Greenwich, U.K. based in Pfizer Research Center, Sandwich site on granulation process scale up and modelling. He is an Internationally recognised Pharmaceutical Granulation Expert. He has two decades of hands on practical experience in drug development and delivery by working for four major pharmaceutical company namely Merck, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Novartis in his career. He is active senior committee member of the Particle Technology Subject Group of Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). He is certified Chartered Engineer and Chartered Scientist. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Engineers and Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma for quality management system.
He holds several patents for inflammation and oncology (cancer) drug product formulations and widely published in the granulation process research area. He developed the formulation and manufacturing process for two recent breast cancer product Kisqali and Piqray to improve patients life. He is currently work on late phase oncology project in particular formulation and process development by applying Chemical Engineering first principles approach.
2000 - 2004: PhD Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, U.K. 1998 - 2000: MS (by Research) Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 1994 - 1998: B.Tech Chemical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, University of Madras, India
Memberships: CEng, CSci, FIChemE, FRSC, FAPS
Senior Lecturer
+44(0)131 6508553
1.086 Sanderson Building
Chemical Engineering
Materials and Processes
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Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Professor
G.114 Peter Wilson Building
Materials and Processes
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- MA, DPhil, DSc (Oxford)
- CEng, FRSC, FIMMM, FREng, FRSE
Professor and Deputy Head of Research Institute
+44(0)131 6508704
1.132 Sanderson Building
Mechanical Engineering
Materials and Processes
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Vasileios Koutsos, FInstP, FIMMM, CEng MIMechE, FHEA, is a Professor (Chair in Soft Materials and Surfaces) with the Institute for Materials and Processes, in the School of Engineering. Formerly a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics in Collège de France (Paris, France, 1998-2000), he holds a BSc in Physics (Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992) and a PhD in Polymer Science (Chemistry Department & Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1997).
- Ph.D. in Polymer Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1997
- B.Sc. in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992
- Chartered Engineer and Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, CEng MIMechE
- Fellow, Institute of Physics, FInstP
- Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, FIMMM
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy, FHEA
Current:
- Course Organiser of Industrial/European Placement 4 (MEng)
- Course Organiser of Professional Issues for Mechanical Engineers 3 (BEng/MEng)
- Final Year Mechanical Engineering Individual Project Supervision (BEng/MEng)
- Industrial/European Placement Supervision (MEng)
- Digital Design and Manufacture (DDM) M.Sc. Project Supervision
Major Past Teaching:
- Surface Engineering and Coatings 5
- Polymers and Composite Materials 4
- Polymer Science and Engineering 5
- Dynamics 4
- Advanced Materials 5
- Nanotechnology 5
- Thermodynamics 2
- Mechanical Engineering 2nd Year Laboratory; 12 experiments in dynamics, thermodynamics, fluids, and structures
- Polymers, Complex Fluids, and Soft Condensed Matter
- Surfaces and Interfaces
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Composites and Nanocomposites
- Recycling and Sustainability
- Adhesion and Tribology
- Mechanics of Materials
- Thin Films and Coatings
- Materials for Energy
- Materials for Biomedical Applications
- Self Assembly of Polymers and Nanoparticles on Surfaces
- Surface Metrology and Characterisation
- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
- Soft Coatings
- Elastomers and gels
- Micro/nanomechanics
- Wettability of Surfaces, Wetting, Dewetting
- Additive manufacturing
- Electrospinning
- Deputy Head of the Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP)
- Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering
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