Associate Professor
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dr. Stelzer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He stayed on as Assistant Professor (Habilitand) before joining MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering for a two-year sabbatical (2012-2014). Subsequently, he joined the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) as Assistant, later promoted to Associate Professor, successfully balancing his academic ambitions with his personal life as part of a dual career couple. At UPR, he founded the collaborative Crystallization Design Institute. His research focuses on crystallization, purification and separation processes, and materials science of crystalline solid dispersions, with an emphasis on process intensification and integrated end-to-end processing. Dr. Stelzer currently leads several multi-PI, multi-institutional projects and collaborates with the private sector. From 2022-2024, he was a Visiting Professor at MIT and currently holds an Honorary Associate position at the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He has authored over 80 scientific articles and book chapters and is named as an inventor on 20 patents and applications. You can find details of Dr. Stelzer at https://linkedin.com/in/torstenstelzer
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Model-Informed Personalized Solid Dosage Formulation via Novel Additive Manufacturing Approach
Monday, November 10, 2025
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM CT