Making and Breaking Materials with Ionic Liquids – Designing solvents for producing more sustainable carbon fibres and for enhanced plastic recyclingJoin us for this informal webinar with Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot. There will be an opportunity for question and answer after the presentation. To join this webinar you must register in advance and you will be emailed the joining instructions for the webinar.
Biography
Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Research Fellow
Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot is an independent Research Fellow and leads the Sustainable Carbon Solutions research team in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London.
She has authored 26 scientific articles with more than 3000 citations and holds licensed 3 patents. Dr Brandt-Talbot’s research interest is creating bio-derived materials and chemicals from sustainable biomass and the application of novel tailor-made solvents for more sustainable use of carbon in our economy.
Dr Brandt-Talbot was awarded Imperial’s President’s Award of Excellence for Outstanding Early Career Researcher in 2015, the Department of Chemical Engineering’s Sir William Wakeham Award in 2016, and a 2017 Imperial College Research Fellowship which she has taken up in the Department of Chemistry. She is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of start-up company Lixea.
Dr Brandt-Talbot received a BSc and an MSc from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. She joined Imperial College with a Porter Institute funded PhD studentship and was a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She has also been the Business Manager of start-up company Econic Technologies.
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More Webinars in the Greener Plastics Future and Sustainable Materials Series
All webinars in this series are based on the theme of the new IMSE / OPSN briefing paper which. The launch of this briefing paper will be held on 8 July at 16.30 online. To register for the event please click here.
- 2 June 14.00 Developing Better Manufacturing Processes Through Molecular Engineering presented by Professor Claire Adjiman
- 16 June 14.00 Making and Breaking Materials with Ionic Liquids presented by Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot
- 23 June 14.00 Optimising Sustainable Chemicals & Fuels Using Process Systems Engineering presented by Dr Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez
- 7 July 14.00 Fibre-based Electronics for Sustainable E-textiles presented by Dr Felice Torrisi
- 8 July 16.30 Enabling Greener Plastics Future through Molecular Science IMSE Briefing paper Launch
- 14 July 14.00 Imaging Physical Degradation of Bio-Plastics presented by Professor Alexandra Porter
- 21 July 14.00 Upgrading Waste with (Nano)cellulose presented by Dr Koon-Yang Lee
- 28 July 14.00 Plastic Recycling – Current Challenges and Future Outlook presented by Professor Jason Hallett