Professor Karen Hapgood is a renowned academic research leader who uses deep industry insight to focus her work on elucidating and controlling key steps in industrial particulate processes, especially the granulation of pharmaceuticals. Her work has delivered novel advanced strategies for product development and manufacture, using mechanistic characterization and process design methods to enhance industrial processes that are used worldwide by the pharmaceutical and food industries when designing new formulations and troubleshooting production problems. Professor Hapgood is also an accomplished university teacher and senior leader.