Introduction to Tableting and Powder Handling - Characterisation and Industry Best Practices

Reginald is a professional chemical engineer who specialises in surface science and understands the interfacial interactions of particulates in biological and materials systems. His overarching applied research goal will be to exploit the knowledge gained to design and fabricate novel ‘green’ composite materials for a variety of critical industry relevant applications. These include the areas of bioremediation, catalysis, carbon sequestration, drug delivery, energy, food technologies, water conservation and purification. He holds a US patent on using magnetic pollen grains as sorbents for removal of organic contaminants in water, and his work on particulate removal from surfaces using just water and heat (Leidenfrost effect) was featured in Nature Physics. He teaches in the Chemical Engineering and Food Technology cluster at SIT, and was previously a faculty at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and a visiting assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a Bachelor of Science (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Science (Chemical Engineering) and Doctor of Philosophy (Chemical Engineering) from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. SK Mahasin Alam is a Lead Professional Officer at Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore. His current research focuses on hydrogen safety - modelling of hydrogen dispersion (hydrogen concentration decay, accumulation of hydrogen in and enclosed environment, hydrogen plume dispersion length) and flame (visible flame length and width, radiative heat flux) characteristics. He obtained his PhD in computational chemistry from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

His research interests are Na and Li storage mechanisms, diffusion of Na and Li in organic batteries, and electronic properties and diffusion of dopants in doped semiconductors. He also focuses on the structural and electronic properties of Ge & Si nanowires and carbon nanotubes, interactions and reaction mechanisms of surface species on catalyst surfaces using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) method, and photoluminescence properties of graphene quantum dots and polymers using the time-dependent DFT method. Additionally, his interests include Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship studies of biomolecules for their bioactivities, molecular docking, and pharmacophore mapping.

Dr. Parthiban is the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Consultant for Natoli Engineering Company for the Asia Pacific region. He graduated with a pharmacy degree from National University of Singapore and pursued a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in pharmaceutical technology. Dr. Parthiban has authored several research articles in the field of solid dosage manufacturing in international journals. Areas of expertise include solids manufacturing systems, formulation development and compression studies. His current responsibilities include tool design, solid dosage troubleshooting and training professionals from the pharmaceutical industry and academia.