24th Microencapsulation Industrial Convention

Convention Speakers

Thorsten Brandau, Brace - Germany

1991-1996 University of Frankfurt Diploma Chemistry ("Diplom Chemiker"), "J-Coupling derived Analysis of Diederangles in Fatty Acid Binding Protein"
1996-2000 University of Frankfurt PhD at the Institut of Biophysical Chemistry and Biochemistry, "Determination of the Structure of H-FABP from Bovine Hear with multi-dimensional NMR-Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
1992-2000 Work at BRACE GmbH for Encapsulation, Granulation and Machinery (part time)
2000-2001 Head of Development at BRACE GmbH
2001- President/CEO of BRACE GmbH.
More info on https://brace.de

Eride Quarta, University of Parma - Italy

Dr. Eride Quarta studied Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Parma. She got her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomolecules and Health Products, (Biopharmaceutical-Pharmacokinetics) at PlumeStars SRL and University of Parma. She was Senior Scientist, specialist in R&D of inhalation drug products and orphan drugs at PlumeStars SRL from 2020 to 2021. From December 2021 to current, she is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at Food and Drug Department of University of Parma (Italy). Dr. Quarta got the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award (WIPS) 2021 presenting the short lecture: Inhalable Microparticles embedding Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles for Heart Target. Her research interests are solid dosage forms for controlled and site-specific drug delivery and solid-state chemistry for improving biopharmaceutical properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients: Nasal and pulmonary administration of powders; Particle engineering by spray drying; Nano-sized systems for nasal pulmonary and oral drug delivery; Technological aspects of the pharmaceutical production.

Paul de Vos, UMCG - The Netherlands

The de Vos group has a major focus on innovative encapsulation-approaches for treatment or prevention of disease. The group has been instrumental in identifying causes of bioincompatibility and developed new capsule concepts and biomaterials for encapsulation of living cells. Also, delivery of sensitive immunological active food components has been a focus of the group in recent years. These technologies can be used to deliver immune active food components in immune signaling areas of the small intestine to prevent age associated immune decline. During recent years we have designed new approaches to support longevity of cells in capsules. The group has published more than 220 scientific original papers, 27 theses, and 7 patents.
More info on http://www.rug.nl/umcg/immunoendocrinology

Stephan Drusch, TU Berlin, Germany

Stephan Drusch is Professor for Food Technology and Food material Science at the Technical University of Berlin. He studied at the University of Kiel (Diploma, PhD) and worked as a researcher in the dairy Research Association of the German Food Industry (FEI) and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. His research activities focus on structure-function relationships in food processing with emphasis on dispersed systems and the encapsulation of food ingredients.

Alex Kerr, Micropore Technologies Ltd, UK

Alex Kerr is the Formulations Development Manager at Micropore Technologies, a specialist equipment company focussed on scalable, monodisperse particle formulations. After acquiring an MChem from the University of Sussex, Alex worked at Lambson Ltd., primarily focusing on FMCG applications of novel complex coacervates. Over the last 5 years Alex has developed Micropore’s capabilities in encapsulation, with extensive work on drug delivery systems including PLGA microspheres and lipid nanoparticles.

Seán McMahon, Ashland, Ireland

Dr. Seán McMahon is the Business and Technical Manager for the ViatelTM bioresorbable polymer portfolio at Ashland, supporting customers with key excipients/materials and technical solutions in the development of extended release parenteral drug delivery formulations, medical devices, tissue engineering scaffolds and cosmetics.
He joined Ashland as part of the Vornia Ltd. acquisition in 2018 where he previously held responsibility for the company’s major business functions in his role as CEO. During his time at Vornia Ltd., he led development of the company’s major intellectual property platform for production of bioresorbable polymers. He has extensive knowledge of bioresorbable polymer design, chemistry and processing technologies used in medical applications. This experience comes from working on large research and commercial projects delivering bioresorbable polymer-based solutions for orthopedic, cardiovascular, neurological, oncology, wound-care, dental, ophthalmic, regenerative medicine and wider drug delivery technologies.
Dr. McMahon has published several research/review papers on polymer design for medical applications. He obtained his B.Eng. and M.Sc. from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and his Ph.D. from the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences at the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.

Gabrie Meesters, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Gabrie Meesters has worked as engineer for 26 years at DSM Food Specialties Delft, Genencor International Delft (1992-2018).It was part time professor in Particle technology (1996-2018) and full time professor at Product and Process Engineering group, TU Delft (2018-current). He is chief editor Europe for KONA Journal.

Ashok M. Adur, Everest International Consulting, USA

Ashok M. Adur has earned a Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Engineering and trained in Executive Entrepreneurship. He has over 40 years of success in R & D, business development, marketing and general management at chemical, plastics and paper companies. He has published 13 papers in professional journals, presented over 75 papers at professional conferences and filed 75 patent applications resulting in new annual business of over $2.5 billion. He has been honored as a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). As a consultant at Everest International Consulting (LLC) Dr. Adur has expertise in plastics, polymers, elastomers, composites, packaging, microencapsulation & specialty products. He is considered an expert in polymer compounding and plastics recycling, particularly in compatibilization of multi-component systems and developing strategies for intellectual property issues in polymers and plastics.

Michael Hagander, Microcaps, Switzerland

Michael Hagander is the co-founder and co-CEO of Microcaps. He received his, Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. Michael founded Microcaps together with his co-founder Alessandro Ofner in 2019. Microcaps combines formulation knowhow and a uniquely scalable microfluidic technology to offer Swiss precision solutions in microencapsulation. More info on https://www.microcaps.ch

Anant Patel, Bielefeld University, Germany

Anant Patel holds a research professorship of process engineering and focusses on fermentation and formulation materials, methods and technology. His groups aims at understanding the relationship between material chemical structure and properties, spatio-temporal phenomena that occur in the complex interaction of the biological ingredients with the formulation materials and the communication of the formulation with the environment. The novel award-winning biocontrol product ATTRACAP that attracts wireworms in soil by CO2 is based on the encapsulation technology of the Patel group. On-going encapsulation research: fermentation and formulation of endophytic entomopathogenic fungi, attract-and-kill, push-and-pull and repellent formulations, drying of Gram-negative bacteria, slow-release organic fertilizers, nanocoating of biological surfaces, chemoenzymatic one-pot syntheses, co-cultivation of microalgae and bacteria, microencapsulation of tumor spheroids and biobased colours. 30 patents, 24 peer-reviewed publications (past 5 years)

Denis Poncelet, EncapProcess, France

Professor in Food engineering, Denis Poncelet has been involved in developing microencapsulation methods since 1986. Author of more than 100 papers in the domain, he is president of the Bioencapsulation Research Group since 1992 and organized more than 70 microencapsulation conferences, training schools and industrial conventions.
More info on http://encapprocess.fr

Albert Poortinga, Bether Encapsulates, The Netherlands

Albert Poortinga graduated in Applied Physics in 1996 and received his PhD in BioMedical Engineering in 2001. Subsequently he worked for 15 years in R&D of the dairy company FrieslandCampina in the fields of emulsions, foams, powders and encapsulates. In 2016 he started the company Bether Encapsulates in order to further develop a new encapsulation technology in which actives are encapsulated within a shell of gas using structures called ‘antibubbles’. The aim of this technology is to combine very good barrier properties with the possibility of a very fast and complete triggered release. Albert also has a part-time appointment as associate professor in Polymer Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.
More info on https://www.bether-encapsulates.nl

Henelyta S. Ribeiro, BASF SE, Germany

Dr Henelyta S. Ribeiro currently works at the Process Research & Chemical Engineering Division at BASF SE in Germany. Since joining BASF, she has been leading several projects, strategies related to innovation, also have been working on ideas and project portfolio management. Before joining BASF, she worked for Unilever Corporate Research in the UK (2006-2010), as well as Unilever R&D in Vlaardingen (2010-2012). In Unilever she worked as a scientific expert on encapsulation & formulation technologies, and also led the innovation part of an investment project, respectively. Henelyta is a Chemical Engineer by training, and holds a PhD in Process Engineering. She did her first Post-Doc in KIT, former University of Karlsruhe, and did her second Post-Doc at the National Food Research Institute and at the Tsukuba University in Japan, supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
More info on https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henelyta_Ribeiro2 and More info on https://www.linkedin.com/in/henelyta-s-ribeiro-a1bb893/

Didier Schons, Glatt, Germany

2007 – 2013 Studies in Chemical Process Engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern with focus on solid-liquid separation
2013 – 2018 Research Assistant at the Institute for Particle Technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig working on process design for stirred media milling applications, particle design / engineering in nano- and micro-scale general using various technologies and teaching in grinding technologies, fluid bed processes and plant engineering.
Since 2018 at Glatt Ingenieurtechnik currently in the position of Head of Sales Team supporting international partners of the Food, Feed and Fine Chemical businesses from the initial idea of product formulation and functionalization to the industrialization of batch and continuous fluid bed installations.

Jenny Weissbrodt, Symrise, Germany

Dr. Jenny Weissbrodt studied food technology at the University of Bonn. She works on the microencapsulation of food ingredients, food additives and bioactive components since 1999.
Jenny's main focus area is drying technologies especially spray drying. In 2011 she took over the leadership of the technology scouting and development group for the flavor division of the SYMRISE AG in the headquarter Holzminden. Her tasks include the search for new technologies and materials for flavor encapsulation, improvement of existing technologies and development of new products and processes.

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