PhD student position

The over-all goal of the present project is to develop mathematical models for high-shear wet granulation to be used for design, scale-up, operation, control and optimization of tabletting formulations in high-shear mixers.This is of high relevance for the pharmaceutical industry and requires a coupling between models at the particle level (population balances) with models for the flow- and shear-fields.The models will be experimentally verified, partly in equipment at AstraZeneca in Mölndal.Specifically, experimental and theoretical methods to describe multi-dimensional evolution of agglomerates using population balances; flow in dense particle systems; and coupling between flow and population balance models, will be developed.The project is a joint venture between AstraZeneca Mölndal and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers.International cooperation with a research group at University of Sheffield is foreseen. A suitable background is Master of Science (Swedish: civilingenjör) in Chemical engineering or Chemical Engineering with Physics, Mechanical Engineering or Engineering Physics; specifically with interest in applied mathematics and transport phenomena.The position is placed at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.The period of service as a Ph.D. student is maximum four years plus maximum one year undergraduate teaching divided throughout the whole period of service.