Final Event of the Erasmus Mundus BIOPHAM 1st Edition [2020–2026] 24 July 2026

PROGRAMME

09:00–09:50 – Welcome coffee
09:50–10:00 – Opening and introduction
10:00–12:00 – Scientific Session 1
• 10:00-10:20 Luc Aerts (UCB Pharma, Belgium) “Physico-chemical characterisation in
pharmaceutical development: why and how?”
• 10:20-10:40 Evgenyi Shalaev (AbbVie, USA) “Physical chemistry in development of
pharmaceutical frozen and freeze-dried formulations”
• 10:40-11:00 Madalena Dionisio (NOVA, Portugal) " Confined Water: a hidden role in
guest drug mobility "
• 11:00-11:20 Ivo Rietveld (University of Rouen-Normandie, France) “Vibrational Circular
Dichroism and Second Harmonic Generation: Tools for Detecting Chirality and Symmetry
Breaking”
• 11:20-11:40 Natalia Correia (University of Lille, France) “Disorder in Pharmaceuticals”
• 11:40-12:00 Sameer Dalvi (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India)
“Understanding mechanical behavior of Halogenated Benzoic Acid crystals”
12:00–13:30 – Buffet lunch
13:30–15:30 – Scientific Session 2
• 13:30-13:50 Dionysis Douroumis (University of Nicosia, Greece) “3D printing of drug
eluting medical devices”
• 13:50-14:10 Luca Casula (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) “Engineering Drug
Delivery Systems: A Research Journey Through Nanomedicine”
• 14:10-14:30 Yaroslav Khimyak (University of East-Anglia, UK) “Combining strengths of
solution- and solid-state NMR to probe transformations of pharmaceutical materials”
• 14:30-14:50 Marco Geppi (University of Pisa, Italy) “Solid-state NMR and NQR
spectroscopies as powerful tools to study materials for drug delivery, production of clean
energy and environmental remediation”
• 14:50-15:10 Artem Shagurin (University of Lille, France) “Supercritical Fluids: Uniqueness
from Theoretical Perspective”
• 15:10-15:30 Lidia Tajber (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) “Mixing matters: exploring
eutectic phases in pharmaceutical systems”
15:30–16:00 – Coffee break
16:00–17:00 – Alumni testimonials (10’ each)
• Maulana Ariefai (Cohort 1 -Track 1)
• Darina Barkhatova (Cohort 1 -Track 2)
• Aaron Kuriakose Prakash (Cohort 2 - Track 1)
• Fateme Hoseinkhani (Cohort 2 - Track 2)
• Akanksha Shahi (Cohort 3 - Track 1)
• Aigerim Dyussupova (Cohort 3 - Track 2)
17:00–18:00 Presentations of selected Cohort 4 Master’s theses (15’ each)
• Elizaveta Gigiadze (University of Lille, France) “Molecular Dynamics Investigation of
Trehalose-Induced Stabilization of Thymosin-α1”
• Marsida Musagalliu (University of Pisa, Italy) “Dynamics and crystallization kinetics of
active pharmaceutical ingredients studied by complementary experimental techniques”
• Rashed Aldughmi (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) “Sugar Hydration: How
Does the Presence of Sugars Affect the Structure and Dynamics of Water?”
• Rajimol Ramachandran (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) “Iron chelators as tools
to probe mitochondrial contributions to ferroptosis”
18:00–19:30 – Graduation ceremony for Cohort 4 students
Official speeches by representatives of the partner universities:
• Prof. Davy Gaillot (University of Lille, France)
Vice-Dean for International Relations at the Faculty of Sciences & Technologies
• Prof. Céline Toubin (University of Lille, France)
Director of the Master “Fundamental Physics and Applications”
• Prof. Frédéric Affouard (University of Lille, France)
Coordinator of the BIOPHAM Master
• Prof. Katarzyna Balin (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Deputy Director of the Biophysics program
• Prof. Roberto Macovez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
Responsible of the BIOPHAM Master at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
• Prof. Serena Danti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Responsible of the BIOPHAM Master at the University of Pisa
Graduation ceremony
19:30–00:30 – Celebration dinner (buffet) featuring music, games, photobooth, and more