doi:10.3850/978-981-07-2518-1_331
| IOC Invited | Drop Penetration Time in Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Powder Mixtures: The Effect of Powder Specific Surface Area |
| Presenter | Assoc. Prof. Karen P Hapgood, Monash University, Australia |
| Co Author(s) | Harry Wan and Rachel M. Smith |
Assoc. Prof. Hapgood completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2000 at the University of Queensland, and then worked at Merck & Co for 5 years designing, scaling up and troubleshooting pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. In 2006 she joined Monash University and co-founded the Monash Advanced Particle Engineering Laboratory where she leads research on granulation and pharmaceutical processing. In 2011 she was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2012 she became the Head of Department. She has won several awards including the 2006 “AAPS New Investigator Award in Pharmaceutics and the Pharmaceutical Sciences” award, a 2010 “ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning”, the 2010 Uhde Shedden Medal and a 2011 ADC Australian Leadership award. She a member of the International Steering Committee for the Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients, the Editorial Board of Advanced Powder Technology journal, and a member of the Therapeutic Goods Committee in Australia.
