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Academic lead: Professor Yun Xu Research interests: Biofluid mechanics, biotransport; drug delivery systems; biomass suspensions in bioreactors.
Academic lead: Dr Francesca Ceroni Research interests: cell engineering, synthetic biology, cancer therapy, bioprocessing.
Academic lead: Professor Rongjun Chen Research interests: Biomaterials; nanomedicine; drug delivery; vaccines; cell and gene therapy; cancer treatment.
Academic lead: Professor Christos Markides Research interests: Energy efficiency/integration; heat recovery/conversion; applied thermodynamics; turbulent reacting/multiphase flows.
Academic lead: Professor Serafim Kalliadasis Research interests: Engineering science fundamentals, applied mathematics and complex systems.
Academic lead: Dr Anna Hankin Research interests: Electrochemical energy conversion; CO2 reduction and separation processes.
Academic lead: Dr Salvador Eslava Research interests: Materials design; photoelectrochemical, photocatalytic, and electrochemical devices.
Academic lead: Professor Jason Hallett Research interests: Ionic liquid based biorefining; deconstruction of biomass and hybrid bioprocessing.
Academic lead: Dr Ceri Hammond Research interests: Catalysis and bio-medical engineering.
Academic lead: Professor Omar Matar Research interests: Hybrid computational fluid dynamics, ML, and optimisation approaches to solving multiphase flows problems.
Academic lead: Dr Qilei Song Research interests: Design, synthesis, and characterisation of functional nanoporous materials for energy and environmental applications.
Academic lead: Professor Camille Petit Research interests: Porous materials, materials synthesis/characterisation, molecular separations, photocatalysis.
Academic lead: Dr Antonio Del Rio Chanona Research interests: Optimisation, control & reinforcement learning; ML applied to bioprocesses.
Academic lead: Dr Maria Papathanasiou Research interests: Industry 4.0 principles in (bio-) pharmaceutical processes, digital twins and control methodologies.
Academic lead: Professor Joao Cabral Research interests: Experimental soft condensed matter; complex fluids; multicomponent systems; copolymers; (nano)-particles and surfactants.
Academic lead: Professor Klaus Hellgardt Research interests: Solar (bio)fuels and products; clean fossil fuels; flow chemistry; electrochemical reactors/fuel cells; hydrogen.
Academic leads: Professor Jerry Heng and Professor Daryl Williams Research interests: SPEL specialises in the processing, manufacture and characterising of solid state particulate materials.
Academic lead: Professor Martin Trusler Research interests: Thermophysical properties of fluid mixtures for industrial applications.
Academic lead: Dr Roberto Rinaldi Research interests: Catalytic valorisation of lignin and cellulose by unconventional approaches.
Research interests: Energy systems modelling; low carbon heat technologies; fuel cells; microgeneration; modelling integrated/coordinated energy systems.
Research interests: Catalytic upgrading of hydrocarbons; thermochemical characterisation of fuels; coal/biomass gasification and pyrolysis.
Research interests: Single- and multi-phase flow in porous media, high-pressure (supercritical) adsorption in nano-/micro-porous solids, and multi-scale imaging of phase-equilibria and/or flows in porous media.
Research interests: Engineering of catalytic processes; development of new catalysts; study and modelling of reaction kinetics.
Research interests: Carbon capture and storage; exploiting non-conventional sources of hydrocarbons; renewable production of hydrogen.
Research interests: Development of ceramic and polymeric membranes and membrane systems for fluid separations and reactions.
Research interests: Colloid and interface science; measurement of inter-particle forces; rheology of complex fluids; novel nanoparticles.
Academic lead: Professor Sergei Kazarian Research interests: Materials; polymer, pharmaceutical, forensic and biomedical sciences; nanotechnology; microfluidics; supercritical fluids.
Academic lead: Dr Ali Yetisen Research interests: Biochemical sensors; optical probes; nanotechnology; diagnostics; medical devices; healthcare.