- Fundamentals of particle breakage.
- Innovative methods for particulate characterization.
- Coarse grinding and classification processes, especially for minerals, ores, cement and other materials.
- Grinding, dispersing and classification of fine particles, micro- and nanomilling applied to pharmaceutical, chemical, material, and electronic industries.
- Cell disintegration and recovery of high value-added products in biorefinery, green processes, food industries.
- Comminution and separation in recycling industries and waste processing: plastic wastes, WEEE, MSW, construction and demolition wastes, agricultural wastes, used solar panels, used wind turbines, and other wastes.
- Mechanochemical and mechanofusion processes, mechanical bulk and surface transformations, mechanical alloying.
- Transport and process modelling across length scales (CFD, multiphase flow, DEM, PBM, …).
- Wear, erosion and product contamination.
- Plant operation, innovations in milling and classification technologies including automation, machine learning, in line sensors, simulation of particle breakage and milling operations, either by physical, AI or hybrid models. Control of milling and classification processes.