Welcome to Ken's personal webpage!
Thank you for visiting my personal webpage.
I am an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. My research focuses on Process Systems Engineering (PSE), and you can find our research group website here.
Who is Kensaku (Ken)?
I earned my Ph.D. in Chemical System Engineering from the University of Tokyo. After my postdoctoral research experiences at Ghent University and Purdue University, I became a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
Research
Process Systems Engineering × Pharmaceutical Science × Powder Engineering
I am working on the process development of solid drug products, which are major dosage forms such as tablets and capsules.
I aim to design appropriate manufacturing processes for solid drug products, based on "pharmaceutical science" such as material properties and quality management, using skills in "powder engineering" such as heterogeneity, and from the perspective of "process systems engineering" such as process synthesis and assessment.
The following are examples of my research topics:
- Comparison between batch and continuous manufacturing in tablet manufacturing
- Process synthesis in solid drug product manufacturing
- Development of economic assessment tools in solid drug product manufacturing processes
- Experimental investigation of a tablet manufacturing process including wet granulation
In my postdoctoral research, I mainly focused on process model development using population balance models (PBMs).
For more details, please check the research group website as well as my profile and publication pages.
Related web pages
- MoSPSyDe (Group where I am a PI)
- CryPTSys (Group which I was in from 2024 to 2026)
- Pharmaceutical Engineering (Group 1 which I belonged to from 2022 to 2024)
- BIOMATH (Group 2 which I belonged to from 2021 to 2024)
- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Process Analytical Technology (Group 3 which I belonged to from 2021 to 2024)
- Sugiyama Lab (Lab which I belonged to from 2015 to 2021)
Other activities
Support decision-making and SMEs in the COVID-19 pandemic
This project was conducted in FY2020. Details are available from here.
Career support for PhD students
I would like to support careers for current and prospective PhD students.
So far, I have made a presentation in the workshop organized by UTokyo Lighthouse.
Where can you see me or my research?
You can find my recent research progress and presentations at the events listed below. (Some of the listed presentations are given by my colleagues.)
May 15-16, 2026, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Presentation will be in Japanese
（Oral）Kensaku Matsunami
November 8-12, 2026, Minneapolis Convention Center, Hilton Minneapolis, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Session Co-chair: 10A: Product and Materials Design
Want to work with me?
I welcome inquiries from enthusiastic Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers interested in my research. For more details, you can refer to this link.
If you are interested in exploring potential research directions together, please do not hesitate to reach out (kmatsun[at]purdue.edu). I am always happy to connect and have an informal discussion.
