Robert Houlden

Robert is Formulation Director at Formulytica, a leading contract R&D company in Melbourne serving Australia, USA and South East Asia. Previously with GlaxoSmithKline and Stiefel Laboratories he has been in the formulation area for over 30 years and is experienced in development of pharmaceutical emulsions, gels and aerosols for drug delivery. One of Robert’s main passions is rheology and he has spent 10 years using this technique to characterize emulsions to predict their attributes when applied to the skin and develop more cosmetic elegant emulsions for his customers. Robert has 8 patents principally in the area of dermatology and is the author of multiple papers.