Jukka Rantanen

CV

Professor University of Copenhagen, 2006-

Background
Visiting Professor, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China 2017-2020
Docent (physical pharmacy) University of Helsinki, Finland 2001
Ph.D. (Pharm.) Department of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland 2001

Work history
* Chief research scientist, Viikki Drug Discovery Technology Center (DDTC),
University of Helsinki, Finland, 2005
* Visiting scientist, Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy,
Purdue University (IN), USA, 2003
* Senior research scientist, Viikki Drug Discovery Technology Center (DDTC),
University of Helsinki, Finland, 2001 and 2004

Other activities
Jukka Rantanen is a member of the Process Analytical Technology Working Party of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission as well as a member of the National Pharmacopoeia Council in Denmark (Farmakopenævnet). He is currently a chairman of the Steering Committee of the EUFEPS QbD and PAT Sciences Network (EUFEPS, European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences). Jukka is a board member of Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) within Technology and Production Sciences. He has been consulting several international companies in the field of process analytical technologies (PAT) and Quality by Design (QbD). Jukka is the past chairman of the committee of the Finnish Society of Physical Pharmacy and a founding member of the Pharmaceutical Solid State Research Cluster (PSSRC). 

Short presentation

 Jukka Rantanen is professor of pharmaceutical technology and engineering at the Department of Pharmacy (University of Copenhagen). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 2001, completed postdoctoral visit at the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy (Purdue University, USA) in 2003, and joined the faculty at the University of Copenhagen in 2006 as a full professor. His research is focusing on development of future manufacturing solutions for medicinal products and especially, molecular-level process analysis of solid dosage forms using spectroscopic techniques combined with multivariate data analysis tools. Jukka has supervised or is currently supervising 25 post docs and Ph.D. students and he is an editorial board member of four leading scientific journals within pharmaceutical sciences and chemical engineering.

Primary fields of research

The focus of our research is on particle design with a special emphasis on processing of solid state pharmaceutics. The interplay between both the active pharmaceutical ingredients' and excipients' physical and chemical properties and the related unit operations is studied with the end product performance in focus. We utilize wide range of tools for solid state analysis, starting from robust bulk level understanding and ending up in a molecular level characterization of the crystalline and amorphous states of matter. Real time process analysis together with effective application of data analysis is of special interest.