Main Expertise Areas:
- Pharmaceutical Expert System Development
- Solid Dosage Formulation & Process Development
- Validation of Solid Dosage Formulation & Processes
- Pharmaceutical Compaction
- Compaction Simulators
Dr. Çelik is a part-time faculty at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University. Prior to that, he was a faculty at the College of Pharmacy, Rutgers University. Dr. Çelik received his B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in Pharmacy from Hacettepe University-Turkey and was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Technology from Leicester Polytechnic-UK.
Dr. Çelik worked at Sandoz-Switzerland and Sandoz-Turkey before he joined Smith Kline & French Laboratories to establish the first state-of-art Compaction Simulator System in the western hemisphere. He developed the second unit at Rutgers as the first such a unit in the academia in the U.S.A. and established an internationally recognized research center.
Dr. Çelik has organized over twenty-five national and international symposia and short courses, and has published over thirty publications including book chapters, and refereed research articles and made over hundred presentations (mostly invited) at the industry, academia and national and international meetings.
Dr. Çelik's recent areas of interests include: development of pharmaceutical expert systems, excipient databases, and Compaction Simulators; theory and practice of pharmaceutical compaction;; excipient functionality testing and material processing.
Dr. Çelik has acted a consultant to the FDA and to over twenty-five excipient, equipment and pharmaceutical companies as well as law firms worldwide.
Dr. Çelik is currently is serving as a member of the editorial board or a reviewer for a numerous pharmaceutical journals. He is the past chair of the AAPS Process Development Focus Group. Dr. Çelik is the founder and the past chair of the AAPS Expert Systems Focus Group, and the founder and the present chair of the AAPS Excipients Focus Group.
Dr. Çelik is listed in "Who is who in science and engineering (1995)".
