(490c) Combining Mechanistic Models and Data to Aid Pharmaceutical Process Development

Kim McAuley is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University with a PhD from McMaster University. Her research focuses on the development and application of first-principles models of chemical processes. Kim McAuley develops practical statistical methods for combining models with data, leading to reliable models for process scale-up, optimization, and control. Her techniques are widely used by academic and industrial researchers. She serves on the Board of Directors for International Society for Chemical Reaction Engineering and International Advisory Boards for three journals. She received the DG Fisher Award from the Systems & Control Division of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Government of Canada, a MITACS Mentorship Award of Excellence, and a Queen’s University’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada.