BACG2026 Speaker Profile

Antonello Raponi

Assistant Professor, Mines Saint Etienne

Dr Antonello Raponi is a Maître de conférences at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France. His research focuses on reactive crystallisation and multiphase process modelling, combining CFD, population balance models, and artificial intelligence to support process understanding, optimisation, and scale-up. Before joining Mines Saint-Étienne, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University and obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. His recent work includes CFD–PBM modelling, kinetic parameter identification, deep-learning-assisted optimisation, and compartmental modelling for crystallisation processes.