Philipp S.

Chemical engineer and doctoral researcher focused on crystallization, polymorphism, solid-state characterization, and process-structure-property relationships. Experience in formulation research, process optimization, and scale-up to continuous pilot processing.

Research Associate & Project Lead at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Food Process Engineering (2022-08 – 2026-07)

• Independently led two externally funded IGF research projects with combined total funding of around €975,000, including one taken over during its final phase, each involving around 15 industrial partners
• Co-authored two successful IGF research proposals, including acquisition of selected industrial partners
• Structured formal reporting to funding authorities and industrial partners, ensuring compliance with defined funding requirements, project milestones, and documentation standards
• Investigated crystallization, polymorphism, and process-structure-property relationships as a function of temperature profiles, cooling rates, composition, and shear using WAXS/SAXS, DSC, polarized light microscopy, and pNMR
• Scaled formulation and homogenization processes from 15 mL laboratory batches to a 20 L continuous pilot process
• Developed and characterized a membrane emulsification process, co-developed a Python-based crystallization index from microscopy images, and conducted spray drying experiments including particle-size and microscopic characterization

Mitacs Fellow at A.G. Marangoni Lab, University of Guelph (2025-06 – 2025-10)

• Independently developed and conducted a research project on oleogel-structured dispersed systems and their material properties

Intern at August Storck KG (2019-11 – 2020-03)

• Analyzed and optimized industrial chocolate manufacturing processes, including root-cause analysis of process deviations, production-data evaluation, targeted sampling, and technical trials
• Supported implementation and evaluation of process improvements and gained experience with laboratory-scale chocolate tempering

Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Crystallization-dependent structure–property relationships in complex dispersed lipid systems, including crystallization, polymorphism, solid-state structure, rheology, and tribology – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2022-08 – 2027-01)

M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2019-11 – 2022-07)

B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2015-10 – 2019-11)