Excellence Award in Crystallization

Winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Crystallization 2011

Dr. Levente L. Simon

is the winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Crystallization 2011

His research papers on

"Endoscopy based in-situ bulk video imaging of batch crystallization processes" and
"Bulk video imaging based multivariate image analysis, process control chart and acoustic signal assisted nucleation detection"

achieved the best evaluation results in terms of breadth and depth, originality of the topic studied and of the methodology employed, innovation and industrial relevance, dissemination of results, and scientific impact of the work.

Dr. Levente Simon received his diploma in Chemical Engineering Diploma from the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and his Master's degree in Chemical Engineering Technology from the University of Twente, The Netherlands. In 2007 he completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at ETH Zürich, Switzerland in collaboration with Ciba Specialty Chemicals. Between 2007-2011 he worked as senior chemical engineer researcher at ETH Zürich establishing the PAT assisted separations technologies sub-group in Professor K. Hungerbühler's group with focus on crystallization process analysis. In 2010 he won the "Crystal Growth Detection System" innovation challenge on the InnoCentive® platform.
Dr. Simon recently joined BASF Schweizerhalle AG where he works as Separations Technology Specialist. More information about his former research activities at ETH can be found here: http://www.sust-chem.ethz.ch/research/groups/separation_technologies

The award was presented on 15 September 2011 on the occasion of the 18^th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (ISIC-18), held in Zurich, Switzerland, on 13-16 September 2011.

Winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Crystallization 2008

Dr. Pedro Miguel da Silva Martins

is the winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Crystallization 2008

His PhD Thesis on

" Modelling Crystal Growth from Pure and Impure Solutions - A Case Study on Sucrose "

completed at the University of Porto under the supervision of Professor Fernando Alberto Rocha, was selected by an international jury as the best thesis in terms of innovativeness, breadth and depth of research, and its industrial relevance.

Pedro Miguel da Silva Martins received his Master degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal. Currently, he works as a post-doc grantee of the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology at the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, on the research project "Protein crystallization for pharmaceutical, biochemical and biomedical purposes".

The award was presented on the occasion of the 17th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization- ISIC-17, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, from 14 to 17 September 2008.