Sargent Centre Departments and Groups

CPSE Departments and Groups — The Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering is a vibrant, exciting and nurturing environment for collaborative work by students, researchers and academics.

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Research Departments	Academics
University College London Department of Chemical Engineering	Professor David Bogle, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of UCL Graduate School Dr Vasileios Charitopoulos, Lecturer in Product & Processing Systems Engineer Dr Vivek Dua, Senior Lecturer Professor Eric Fraga, Professor of Process Systems Engineering Dr Federico Galvanin, Lecturer Dr Luca Mazzei, Senior Lecturer Professor Lazaros Papageorgiou, Professor of Chemical Engineering Dr Matteo Salvalaglio, Lecturer Professor Eva Sørensen, Professor of Chemical Engineering Dr Michail Stamatakis, Lecturer
University College London Department of Biochemical Engineering	Dr Alexandros Kiparissides, Lecturer
University College London Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering	Dr Mahdi Sharifzadeh, Lecturer
University College London UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence	Professor Marc Deisenroth, DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Director of UCL's AI Centre
Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering	Professor Claire Adjiman, Professor of Chemical Engineering Professor Benoît Chachuat, Professor of Systems Engineering Dr Antonio Del Rio-Chanona, Lecturer Professor Amparo Galindo, Professor of Physical Chemistry Dr Adam Hawkes, Senior Lecturer in Energy Systems Professor George Jackson, Professor of Chemical Physics Dr Cleo Kontoravdi, Reader in Biosystems Engineering Dr J. Krishnan, Senior Lecturer Professor Geoffrey C Maitland, Professor of Energy Engineering Professor Christos Markides, Professor of Clean Energy Technologies Professor Erich Müller Professor of Thermodynamics Professor Costas C Pantelides, Professor of Chemical Engineering Dr Maria Papathanasiou, Lecturer Professor Nilay Shah, Professor of Process Systems Engineering, Director CPSE Professor Nina F Thornhill,Professor of Process Automation
Imperial College London Business School	Professor Wolfram Wiesemann, Professor of Analytics and Operations
Imperial College London Department of Computing	Dr Ruth Misener, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow Dr Panos Parpas, Lecturer Professor Berc Rustem,Professor of Computing
Imperial College London Dyson School of Design Engineering	Dr Michel-Alexandre, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computational Aided Engineering
Imperial College London Department of Earth Science & Engineering	Professor Nigel Brandon, OBE FREng, Director of the Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI)
Imperial College London Centre for Energy and Environmental Technology and Policy	Dr Niall MacDowell, Lecturer in Energy and Environmental Technology and Policy
The Sargent Centre Departments

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The Sargent Centre Research Groups	Research	Academics
Biological Systems Engineering Laboratory	The Biological Systems Engineering Laboratory group associate the principles and knowledge of process systems engineering with advanced experimental techniques to provide solutions to biological and medical problems.	Professor Athanasios Mantalaris Dr Ruth Misener
Computational Optimisation Group	The Computational Optimisation group at Imperial College has a 30-year track record of research in decision-making under uncertainty, stochastic and robust optimisation. Earlier research has focused on control and optimisation methods and applications to large-scale dynamic macroeconomic models (e.g. those of HM Treasury, the London Business School and the National Institute of Economic & Social Research). The methods have been used to provide written memoranda of evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on the Treasury and Civil Service, and software has been supplied to HM Treasury for use with the HM Treasury model. Current interests of the group are stochastic and robust optimisation models, algorithms and their use in energy production, capacity planning, manufacturing and distribution models under uncertainty, financial engineering and risk management.	Professor Berc Rustem Dr Ruth Misener Dr Wolfram Wiesemann Dr Panos Parpas
Molecular Systems Engineering	The Molecular Systems Engineering group activity involves the intelligent molecular design of materials for engineering applications. The research combines a fundamental physical understanding, mathematical models and numerical methods into new techniques and tools for the design of better products and processes. The emphasis is on integration of models across different scales so that molecular-level models can be used at the larger scale of products and processes.	Professor George Jackson Professor Claire Adjiman Professor Amparo Galindo Professor Erich Müller Professor Costas C Pantelides
Process Automation Group	Worldwide, there is a huge base of currently installed process plants. The Process Automation group's research finds ways of helping them to run efficiently and smoothly. This is achieved by optimizing the operation of the process and equipment by detection and diagnosis of the root causes of process inefficiencies.	Professor Nina F Thornhill
Statistical Machine Learning	The Statistical Machine Learning group is a new research group at Imperial College’s Department of Computing, headed by Marc Deisenroth. Their research expertise is in statistical machine learning with a focus on Bayesian methods. Application areas include autonomous systems, robotics, time series analysis, reinforcement learning, and brain-machine interfaces.	Dr Marc Deisenroth
The Sargent Centre Research Groups