Jukka Rantanen
Jukka Rantanen is professor of pharmaceutical engineering at the Department of Pharmacy (UCPH, 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. Jukka Rantanen was appointed 2017 as a guest professor at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China.
He has a long experience in public-private co-operation in Europe, the US and Asia, where he has been involved in several large industry co-operation project with 20+ international companies within fine chemical and diagnostic industries. Additionally, he has been involved in several litigations in all major European countries and consulted 10+ international companies in the field of solid state chemistry and process analytics. Jukka is a member of the Process Analytical Technology Working Party of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission (Strasbourg, France). He is currently a chairman of the Steering Committee of the EUFEPS QbD and PAT Sciences Network (EUFEPS, European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences). Jukka has been a board member of Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) within Technology and Production Sciences 2013-2018.
He has 300+ publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals (Web of Science h-index 48) and he is an editorial board member of four leading scientific journals within pharmaceutical sciences and chemical engineering. He is a recipient of the APV (International Association of Pharmaceutical Technology) “Research Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Pharmaceutical Sciences” in 2016.
His teaching experience includes several course at the different levels within drug manufacturing and solid state analysis. Additionally, he has developed continuous education course within PAT/QbD concepts together with a broad industrial network, EUFEPS QbD and PAT Sciences Network. This educational platform is described in