Teresa carvajal
Faculty Fellow
Agricultural & Biological EngineeringÂ
Purdue University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Teresa Carvajal joined the ABE faculty in 2010. She earned her B.S. as a Chemical Pharmaceutical Biologist from the National University of Mexico, Mexico City. Later she obtained her M.S. in Pharmaceutics with a Minor in Physical Chemistry from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Her Ph.D. is on the area of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Bath, UK. Prior to pursuing graduate school, Dr. Carvajal worked for 12 years in industry, mostly at Hoffmann-LaRoche and then Bayer Pharmaceuticals. After her experience in industry, she joined Industrial & Physical Pharmacy at Purdue in 2003 where she holds a special faculty position.Â
Research Interest
Surface Science of Pharmaceutical, Food and Agricultural Materials - by exploring of and exploiting physical and chemical properties to take advantage of their full potential hence understand, control, manipulate particle interactions, cohesion-adhesion. Materials Surface Characterization.
Publications
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Yuanyuan Jing, Yan Zhang, John Blendell, Marisol Koslowski, and M. Teresa Carvajal. A nano-indentation method to study slip planes in molecular crystals in a systematic manner. Crystal Growth & Design, 11 (12):5260–5267 (2011).
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Lei Lei, M.Teresa Carvajal and Marisol Koslowski. Defect-induced solid state amorphization of molecular crystals. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3698500 (8 pages) J. Appl. Phys. 111, 073505 (2012).
