Zoltan K. Nagy, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Professor Nagy is a professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University, USA and he also holds a research professor position
at Loughborough University. Previously, he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001-2003) and at the
University of Stuttgart (2003-2005). He has authored 4 books, 9 book chapters, over 220 publications, gave more than 100
invited talks and organized numerous workshops and conferences in the areas of crystallization and control. Professor Nagy is
associate editor of four international journals and has received numerous awards for his work; including best paper awards from
many journals and conferences, the Royal Academy of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award (2007), Chemical Research
Collaboration Success Award from the Council for Chemical Research USA (2009), and is a recipient of the prestigious European
Research Council Fellowship (2011), for the project “CrySys – Crystallisation Systems Engineering - Towards a next generation of
intelligent crystallization systems”. Professor Nagy’s research interests include crystallisation and pharmaceutical systems
engineering; population balance modelling, monitoring, optimization and control of chemical processes in particular
crystallization systems; process intensification and integration as well as process analytical technologies and quality-by-design,
and he has developed several novel crystallisation control approaches for the control of crystal size and shape distribution and
polymorphic form in batch and continuous crystallisation processes.