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- Beneficiary Partner - University of Strathclyde ( UK )
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- Associate Partner - TeraCrystal ( TC )
Mihaela Pop serves as Chief Scientific Officer and currently oversees the entire scientific, research and technological operations at TeraCrystal. Her experience in solid-state chemistry has been accumulated from both academic and industry working environment. Having gained a PhD in Crystallography from "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, she moved forward to take up a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Amsterdam. She started her professional career at Avantium BV, The Netherlands, being responsible for key commercial solid-state programs for pharmaceutical industry. Prior TeraCrystal, in her capacity as Director of EU program HT-Pharma, she built the entire crystallization team and integrated new state of the art facility into an effective workflow. She deeply understands the scientific and commercial value of polymorphism and crystallization studies in the drug development process, her scientific expertise being enriched by a substantial experience in developing, implementing and promoting of new concepts related with crystal structure investigations. She has an extensive track record of innovation and research contributions in most of these areas.
Research Interests
The research interests of Mihaela Pop span many facets of solid-state chemistry, from crystallography and solid form screening of pharmaceutical compounds to crystal engineering, and crystallization method development. The area at the interface of fundamental science and engineering, aimed at understanding crystal structure-physical proprieties relationship of chemical entities is her broad field of expertise. Her area of interest encompasses also crystal structure determination of very small and severely disordered crystals and of polycrystalline materials using X-Ray Diffraction techniques. A special strength is the design of tailored screening methods towards discovery and characterization of novel polymorphic forms of active compounds.
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- Chairman of the Training Committee
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- Beneficiary Partner - University of Rouen, France ( UR )
Valerie Dupray did her undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Rouen Normandy (France) where she obtained her PhD in Optics in 1999 working on the development of new materials and components for telecommunication applications. After a postdoctoral year at Imperial College of London in the Applied Optics Group of Professor Chis Dainty, she returned to Rouen as Assistant Professor in the Laboratory of Biophysics and biomaterials where she gained complementary skills in vibrational spectroscopy. In 2004, she joined the SMS laboratory "Sciences et Méthodes Séparatives» (Separative Sciences and Methods) EA3233 headed by Prof. Gerard COQUEREL to develop original methods based on nonlinear optics for the characterization of pharmaceutical crystalline compounds and more specifically chiral compounds. In 2013, she obtained her accreditation to conduct research (HDR). Since, she has held a position of Associate professor at the SMS Lab.
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- Process Systems Enterprise
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Training Committee
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- Member of the Dissemination Committee
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- Member of the Dissemination Committee
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- Member of the Training Committee
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- Chairman
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- Supervisor
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- Chairman of the Dissemination Committee
- Vice Chair of the Steering Committee
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- Vice Chair
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Chairman of the Dissemination Committee
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After a PhD thesis in Material Sciences defended in 1994 and devoted to the crystallization of metal-organic complexes, S. Petit spent 18 months as a post-doc in the pharmaceutical industry (Novartis Pharma, Basel, SW) in the Crystal Engineering group. In 1998 he joined as a lecturer the ‘Separative Methods and Sciences‘ (SMS) Laboratory at the University of Rouen (France). Since then, his research is devoted to various aspects related to the crystal growth and structural characterization of organic and pharmaceutical compounds, with special emphasis on chiral discrimination mechanisms, polymorphism and solvates, solid-solid transitions and formation of macroscopic crystal defects, in particular fluid inclusions.
Research Interests
Most of the research activities performed by Prof. S. Petit deals with the crystallization in solution of organic and pharmaceutical compounds. Polymorphism is therefore a major issue but the formation of solvates also provide opportunities to investigate solid-solid transformations and desolvation mechanisms in relation to crystal packing and 3D structural features. Crystal growth investigations were designed to propose a reliable mechanism responsible for the formation of fluid inclusions and revealed the major role of dissolved gases and eventual microbubbles in the formation of such macroscopic defects.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Vice Chair of the Dissemination Committee
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- Member of the Dissemination Committee