Thomas became a lecturer at the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences in September 2014 where his research interests lie in the design of combined reaction/crystallization systems with the ultimate goal of obtaining an intensified and globally optimal process that outperforms the individually optimized unit operations. He holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and a MSc in Chemical and Bioengineering from ETH Zurich, which he obtained in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He then proceeded to investigate the interaction of additive molecules with pharmaceutical crystals during his PhD research in the research group of Prof. Marco Mazzotti (ETH Zurich) which he completed in September 2012. Between then and joining the University of Manchester he held a position as postdoctoral research associate at Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, IN, USA) and at UC Santa Barbara in Prof. Michael F. Doherty’s research group (Santa Barbara CA, USA), where he investigated novel continuous crystallization concepts.

Quantitative Shape Property Relationships (QSPR) Combined reaction/separation systems Fundamental understanding of impurity incorporation into crystals

K?llges, T., & Vetter, T. (2016). Model-based analysis of continuous crystallization/reaction processes separating conglomerate forming enantiomers. Crystal Growth and Design. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01487. Publication link: a348ab57-a1ac-4ef5-b50f-4a2a1c95e03d Ochsenbein, D. R., Vetter, T., Schorsch, S., Morari, M., & Mazzotti, M. (2015). Agglomeration of Needle-like Crystals in Suspension: I. Measurements. Crystal Growth \& Design. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00094. Publication link: a2a27e1b-b9cd-4d83-a05c-ff0ff84085b1 Ochsenbein, D. R., Vetter, T., Morari, M., & Mazzotti, M. (2015). Agglomeration of Needle-like Crystals in Suspension. II. Modeling. Crystal Growth \& Design, 15(9), 4296-4310. . Publication link: a3606c84-f181-4800-acd9-93ae34a43666 Schorsch, S., Hours, J-H., Vetter, T., Mazzotti, M., & Jones, C. N. (2015). An optimization-based approach to extract faceted crystal shapes from stereoscopic images. Computers \& Chemical Engineering, 75, 171-183. DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2015.01.016. Publication link: aaaab286-bb38-45bf-a029-cd8fb4e582f9 Vetter, T., Burcham, C. L., & Doherty, M. F. (2015). Designing robust crystallization processes in the presence of parameter uncertainty using attainable regions. Industrial \& Engineering Chemistry Research, 54(42), 10350-10363. . Publication link: bee5dd14-a54b-4612-87f1-479271d71794 Ochsenbein, D. R., Schorsch, S., Salvatori, F., Vetter, T., Morari, M., & Mazzotti, M. (2015). Modeling the facet growth rate dispersion of beta l-glutamic acid - Combining single crystal experiments with nD particle size distribution data. Chemical Engineering Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2015.02.026. Publication link: 5ee8ad9a-67fa-454f-bd7f-5ef7c7cbb8e5 Vetter, T., Burcham, C. L., & Doherty, M. F. (2015). Separation of conglomerate forming enantiomers using a novel continuous preferential crystallization process. AIChE Journal, 61(9), 2810-2823. . Publication link: 7f03270a-ef15-4199-8e2e-2d6daa2273e5