Dr. Stelzer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He stayed on as Assistant Professor (Habilitand) before joining MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering for a sabbatical (2012-2014). Subsequently, he joined the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) as Assistant Professor, later promoted to Associate Professor. At UPR, he founded the collaborative Crystallization Design Institute. His research focuses on crystallization, purification, and separation processes, and materials science of crystalline solid dispersions, with an emphasis on process intensification and integrated end-to-end processing for advanced manufacturing. From 2022-2024, he was a Visiting Professor at MIT and currently holds an Honorary Associate position at the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He has published over 80 scientific articles and book chapters and is named as an inventor on 21 patents and applications. Further details of Dr. Stelzer can be found at https://linkedin.com/in/torstenstelzer