Adam Procopio

My history is a little different than most. In 1999, I graduated from MSE (back then it was Materials Engineering) as a BS/MS after which I entered into the Pharmaceutical R&D sector at Merck & Co., Inc. Merck offers a program that allows certain individuals to partake in a Ph.D. leave of absence program, which I quickly enrolled in at the end of 2000 and started taking courses that Fall. My present job function, which covers the field of powder compaction, is the experimental and computational expertise of Professor Antonios Zavaliangos. Antonios is a well known and recognized expert in this field across many industries and academicians and, more importantly, an outstanding teacher and mentor. It would not have made sense for me to do my Ph.D. studies anywhere else.