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When?

Monday 27 June 2016, 09:30 – 18:30

Where?

Department of Chemical Engineering, Lecture Theatre 1 and Design Rooms

History and Further Information

The PhD Research Symposium was established in 2006 as an opportunity for final year PhD students to present their work to students and staff in the Department. Since 2007, the symposium has been opened by a distinguished guest lecture and attended by representatives from industry.

The 2016 distinguished guest lecture will be given by Professor Joaquim M. S. Cabral, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal on Bioprocess engineering strategies for stem cell-based therapies and regenerative medicine“.

In addition to the oral presentations, students from all years had the opportunity to present posters on their research. Prizes are awarded by a panel of academic and industrial representatives and all PhD students have the opportunity to vote for the most popular presentations.

Presentation Schedule 2016

Time Event
09:30 Welcome by Professor Andrew Livingston, Head of Department
followed by Opening Lecture by Joaquim M. S. Cabral, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
“Bioprocess engineering strategies for stem cell-based therapies and regenerative medicine” (abstract and biography)
10:30-10:50 Sarah Hedberg
Mapping the Aggregation Behaviour of Biopharmaceuticals: A New Approach
10:50-11:10 Maria Papathanasiou
Towards Continuous Biomanufacturing: through the prism of computational tools
11:10-11:30 Morning Break
11:30-11:50 Cher Hui Goey
Cascading effects in bioprocessing: The impact of cell culture environment on mammalian cell behaviour and host cell protein species
11:50-12:10 Andris Piebalgs
Development of a multiscale model to investigate the dissolution of clots in patient-specific geometries during thrombolytic therapy 
12:10-12:30 Aikaterini Diamanti
Towards the Design of Optimal Reaction Conditions: Predicting Temperature and Solvent Effects
12:30-12:50 Richard Oberdieck
Advances in Multi-parametric Optimization and Control
12:50-14:00 Lunch Break and Poster Session (Design Rooms) 
14:00-14:20 Claudio Calabrese
Viscosity and Density of Synthetic Reservoir Fluids with Dissolved CO2 for CCS Applications
14:20-14:40 Joseph Yao
Rate Kinetics of CO2 Capture with a Natural CaO-based sorbent in a Pressurised Fluidised Bed Reactor
14:40-15:00 Florence Gschwend
Decontamination of Metal Treated Wood Waste and its Application in Biorefining Using Ultra-Low Cost Ionic Liquids (UCILs)
15:00-15:20 Franky Bedoya-Lora
Solar Energy-Driven Hydrogen Production and Sulfide Oxidation by Photo-Electrolysis
15:20-15:40 Afternoon Break
15:40-16:00 Izzati Mohd Noor
Using Results from Electrical Power Contingency Analysis Studies to Develop Strategies for Flexible Electrical Operation in Process Plants
16:00-16:20 Zhiwei Jiang
Membrane Fabrication and Membrane Fouling for Low Salinity Water Reverse Osmosis
16:20-16:40 Marie Bachelet
Hybrid biomimetic gold nanoparticles for cytoplasmic delivery enhancement
16:40-17:00 Manuela Nania
Fabrication of soft functional surfaces via wrinkling
17:00-18:30 Drinks Reception and Announcement of Prize Winners (Design Rooms)