The Sky's the Limit: Where Formulation Engineering Can Take You 08.09.20

What is Formulation Engineering?

Formulation engineering is the development and manufacture of products/materials with the right combination of chemistry, ingredients and processes whilst taking into consideration safety, cost and sustainability. These products be anything ranging from foods, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals to smart body cream, packaging, energy storage system and batteries.

About Dr Fideline Tchuenbou-Magaia

Dr Fideline Tchuenbou-Magaia is a senior lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton, where she is also Outreach coordinator for the School of Engineering. She has a long history of excellence in working with companies and liaising industry and academia to carry out cross-disciplinary research, particularly in the area of particle technology and formulation engineering covering a range of applications from food structure and health, nutraceutical stability, cosmetics, controlled delivery of agrochemicals, oral care agents to energy. She has given several talks at international conferences including invited talks and has more than 30 publications with 3 Patents and completed several consulting projects for national and international companies such as PepsiCo, Nestle, Pangaea Agrochemicals, Philips Oral Healthcare and Micreos.

Having worked in Cameroon, France, Italy and the UK, and operated at the academic-industrial interface for many years, studied Biochemistry, Food science/technology and Engineering before settling on Chemical Engineering, she is fascinated about using a multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving and to serve a broad range of industries, particularly food, cosmetics biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

Fideline talked about her work in formulation engineering, encapsulation for different applications including bioconversion of waste.