Michele Chen
Michele Chen
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-MAVT
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My research interest is part of the Studying Secondary Nucleation for the Intensification of Continuous Crystallization (SNICC) project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 2-73959-18.
I focus on methods to characterize and quantify the first step in crystallization, that is crystal nucleation. Crystal nucleation is commonly divided into primary nucleation (the formation of solid crystals from the bulk of liquid) and secondary (crystal nuclei generated by existing crystals). Better understanding of these mechanisms on a fundamental level can improve industrial crystallization processes, such as those in the pharmaceutical industry.
Michele Chen was born in Milano, Italy, in 1996. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2018, followed by a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering always at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. For his MSc thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Davide Moscatelli, he worked on the scale-up of perfusion bioreactors for the production of oligonucleotide pharmaceuticals. After joining SPL for 5 months as Research Assistant, he started his doctorate on industrial crystallization in November 2021.