R&D Senior Scientist
MercuryLAB
Graz, Steiermark, Austria
Dr. Luca Orefice, Ph.D. – R&D Senior Scientist at MercuryLab B.V.
Luca Orefice is a theoretical physicist with a Master’s degree from the University of Bologna (Italy) and a PhD in Process Engineering from Graz University of Technology (Austria). In his Master's, he studied Bose-Einstein condensates, before completely changing topics of study during his Doctorate. After receiving a fellowship in the prestigious European Marie Curie Initial Training Network, his PhD was focused on numerical modelling of Roll Compaction of pharmaceutical powders. He spent his doctorate, and several years afterwards, at the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH in Graz. Here, he developed his skills in mechanistic and numerical modelling of powders, granular materials and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes of solid dosage forms. In 2024 he joined MercuryLab B.V. (Enschede, The Netherlands) as an R&D Senior Scientist.
His main research activities are physics of granular materials, numerical and mathematical modelling, Discrete Elements Modelling and material science. In particular, the scope of his main research experience is in pharmaceutical manufacturing of solid dosage forms, where he has over 10 years of experience. He authored many research papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has a long experience in writing projects and grant proposals.
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Virtual Prototyping of Powder Blender Scale-Up and Shell Design
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM MT