Professor Judy Raper was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) in July 2008. Judy previously was the Division Director of Chemical Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport System at NSF. Prior to this secondment, she has been Department Chair, Chemical & Biological Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly known as University of Missouri-Rolla) (2006) and Dean of Engineering at the University of Sydney (1997-2003). When previously in Australia, she served on the ARC Engineering and Earth Sciences Panel and was founding Director of the Centre for Particle & Catalyst Technologies (now incorporated into the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials) at UNSW. Professor Raper is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards (including the Sheddon Pacific Award for the most outstanding young chemical engineer in Australia in 1992 and the Professional Engineer of the Year in 1998) In 2003 her contribution to the engineering profession in Australia was recognised by election to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in Australia and as an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. Professor Raper followed her undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of New South Wales with postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in the UK, working at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. She taught at both the University of Newcastle and the University of New South Wales before joining the University of Sydney. Her research interests are focused on particle technology, especially the characterisation of fine particles and how their characteristics affect pollution control and industrial processes. Her recent research has concentrated on characterising inhalant aerosol particles for pharmaceutical and medicinal applications. Her group was responsible for the development of a light scattering technique for the measurement of fractal dimensions of micron-sized aggregates.
Journal articles
Does the United States Pharmacopeia Throat Introduce De-agglomeration of Carrier-Free Powder from Inhalers? (with Patricia Tang, Philip C.L. Kwok, Zhenbo Tong, Runyu Yang, and Hak-Kim Chan), Pharmaceutical Research (2012)
Purpose We hypothesize that the USP induction port may deagglomerate carrier-free powder emitting from dry...
Pure drug nanoparticles in tablets: What are the dissolution limitations? (with Desmond Heng, Keiko Ogawa, David Cutler, Hak-Kim Chan, Lin Ye, and Jimmy Yun), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
There has been increasing interests for drug companies to incorporate drug nanoparticles into their existing...
Validation of computational method to predict aerodynamic diameter of particles with rough surface (with P Tang and H-K Chan), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)
Two instruments, namely the Aerosizer LD and the Particle Size Distribution Analyser (PSDA) 360, were...
A novel production method for inhalable cyclosporine A powders by confined liquid impinging jet precipitation (with H K. Chiou, H K. Chan, Desmond Heng, and Robert K. Prud'homme), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
The aim of this work is to evaluate and optimise aerosol performance of precipitated cyclosporineA...
Assessment of surface and depth filters by filter quality (with Mi Lee Kyung, Min Jo Young, and Joon Heon Lee), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
This paper reviews the concept of filterquality (qF) for dust filtration media composed of different...
Conference papers
Characterization of pharmaceutical aerosols and dry powder inhalers for pulmonary drug delivery (with M Coates, Patricia Tang, Hak-Kim Chan, and D F. Fletcher), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)
A Method to Calculate Aerodynamic Diameter of Particles with Fractal Surface (with P Tang and H-K Chan), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2006)
This work describes a computational method to predict DA of particles with rough surfaces. A...
Influence of mouthpiece geometry on the performance of a dry powder inhaler (with M S. Coates, H-K Chan, and D F. Fletcher), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2006)
Preparation and Characterization of Ceramic Gas Filters from Waste Fly Ash (with Y M. Jo and K.M Lee), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2006)
Eight fly ashes collected from Missouri coal-fired power plants were characterized and used to prepare...
Simulation of the Performance of a Dry Powder Inhaler Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (with M S. Coates, H-K Chan, and D F. Fletcher), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2006)
Rapid development in inhalation drug delivery over the past decade has led to the invention...