Imperial College London

Professor King Kuok (Mimi) Hii

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Chemistry

Professor of Catalysis
 
 
 
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Contact

 

mimi.hii Website CV

 
 
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Location

 

401KMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Overview


Current Funding:

Source

Amount

Project title

Duration

EPSRC

£1,589k

Adopting Green Solvents through Predicting Reaction Outcomes with AI/Machine Learning (collaboration with University of Leeds)

10/23-09/27

EPSRC Prosperity Partnership

£6,864k

Innovative Continuous Manufacturing of Industrial Chemicals, ‘IConIC’

07/23-06/28

AstraZeneca Innovation Fund £60k Development of a Droplet Reactor for Multiphasic Reactions 06/23-09/23
EPSRC Strategic Equipment grant £231k Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR), Phase II 04/21-10/23
EPSRC  £6,135k

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Synthesis & Reaction Technology 

04/19-09/27

 

International meetings (keynote/plenary):

2022-3:

Plenary Speaker, Norwegian Organic Chemistry, Autumn meeting, Oslo, Norway, October 20, 2023.

Keynote Speaker, 6th Green Chemistry EUCHEMS Congress, Salerno, Italy, September 3-6, 2023.

Keynote Speaker, Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry (ABCChem), Marrakesh, Morocco, December 13-16, 2022.

Plenary Lecture, Robotics & Automation Conference and Exhibition, Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) and the European Laboratory Research & innovation Group (ELRIG), Festo, Esslingen, Stuttgart, November 30-December 1, 2022.

Plenary Lecture, International School of Process Chemistry (ISPROCHEM), May 30-June 1, 2022 (virtual).

 
Other Activities/appointments:
 


Member of the EPSRC Peer Review Associate College (2016–)

UK Catalysis Hub, Steering committee (2016–)

Board member, Flow Chemical Society’s Excellence Center Alliance.

Advisory Board for Journal of Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society (2019–)

Associate Editor for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, American Chemical Society (2019–) 

Expert Panelist, National Centre of Excellence in Catalysis, The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland (2020-)

Expert Panelist, US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine workshop: "Laboratory Automation and Accelerated Synthesis: Empowering Tomorrow’s Chemist", November 16-17, 2021, virtual.

 

 

Collaborators

Prof. Andrew G. Livingston, Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering

Prof. Geoffrey H. Kelsall, Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering

Dr Klaus Hellgardt EurIng PhD DIC Dipl.-Ing.(TH) VDI MCFA, Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering

Dr. Mark Newton, European Synchrotron Research Facility, Grenoble, Characterisation of Pd catalysts using XAFS techniques

Dr. J. M. Vila, University of Santiago de Compostela

Professor Henry S. Rzepa, Imperial College London, Theoretical Chemistry

Research Staff

Barreiro,E

Ferrini,P

Research Student Supervision

ARBOUR,J

LIU,X

Lusted,P

RIX,K

SMITH,A

TAYLOR,L