The University of Sheffield
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Xavier Mesnier

PhD Research Student
Particle Products Group
Tel: +44 (0)114 22 27543
E-mail: x.mesnier@sheffield.ac.uk

  

Biography

I began my studies in Dijon, France (from 2001 to 2003), completing a technician degree in Food Technology (DUT). I then moved to Paris where I gained a Master of Engineering in Food Technology from AgroParisTech. Instead of carrying out the final year of my degree in Paris, I decided to conduct in parallel a MSc abroad at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) where I joined the "European Master Degree in Food Studies" program. The European Master is a two years course during which the first year lectures are taken in four Universities in Europe: Wageningen University (The Netherlands), University College Cork (Ireland), AgroParisTech (France) and Lund University (Sweden).

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The second year of this degree programme was dedicated to an industrial internship where we were given the opportunity to write a Master thesis. During this time I was a trainee member of the solid products group at the Nestle Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. I finally graduated from both AgroParisTech and Wageningen University in 2009, obtaining a Master of Enginering (MEng) and a Master of Science (MSc).

Research

I was given the opportunity to undertake a PhD at the University of Sheffield under the Supervision of Professor Agba Salman within the Particle Products Group. Thanks go to Professor Stefan Palzer of the Food Science Department at Nestle for his support of my PhD work. My PhD research is focused on the study of the mechanism of exploding agents in food tablets. It will combine experimental work and Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulation to gain more understanding of the role played by the disintegrants in the dissolution of food tablets.

Awards

In 2009 I was awarded the third prize of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) Student Mobility Award, which was presented at the 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Montreal, Canada.

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