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On behalf of the organising committee we invite you to participate in the 2016 Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering Postdoc Symposium, to be held at the Department on Monday 18 April 2016.

The symposium will take place on 18 April 2016 at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Lecture Theatre 1 and the SCR. There will be a keynote lecture, a presentation by the winner of the Sir William Wakeham award, a dedicated poster session and selected abstracts will be invited to give talks.

Keynote lecture by Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator, “How on Earth did I get here?“.

Download the symposium programme and abstract book.

Schedule:

12:00–13:00  Lunch and Poster session in departmental senior common room
   
13:10–13:50  Professor Dame Julia Higgins
Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London  Keynote lecture: How on Earth did I get here?
   
13:50–14:10  Susie Sou  Understanding the impact of mild hypothermia on monoclonal antibody glycosylation in CHO cell cultures through experimental and computational analyses
   
14:10–14:30  Benjamin Aymard  Multiphase flows in confinement with complex geometry
   
14:30–14:50  Paul Balcombe  Determining the distribution of natural gas supply chain emissions
   
14:50–15:10  Break
 
15:10–15:30  Matthew Hennessey  Instability-driven 3D patterning of deformable polymer networks
   
15:30–15:50  Anna Hankin  Design and development of photo-electrochemical reactors for hydrogen production with solar energy
   
15:50–16:10  Lyes Kahouadji  The code BLUE : massively parallel direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional multi-phase flows
   
16:10–16:30  Patrizia Marchetti  Sir William Wakeham Award talk: Molecular separation with organic solvent nanofiltration: membrane characterisation and process prediction
   
16:30–16:50  Agi Brandt-Talbot  Sir William Wakeham Award talk: Turning trees into chemicals using ionic liquids
   
16:50–17:00  Closing remarks and prizes
   
17:00–19:00  Wine reception in the SCR

Join us for this excellent opportunity to share your research with other members of the Department, exchange ideas, form collaborations, network and expand your CV.

Organising Committee

Academics: Cleo Kontoravdi, George Jackson
Postdocs: Yoli Sanchez-Vicente, Alex Brogan, Peter Yatsyshin, Mihaela Stevar, Ju Zhu
Support staff: Zoe Townsend, Michael Panagopulos

Please contact chemeng.comms@imperial.ac.uk with any questions.