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PRESIDENT Professor Dame Julia Higgins has been appointed as the new President of the Institute of Physics. Read the interview
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EDUCATING Professor Omar Matar has been appointed as Vice-Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Engineering from 1 August 2017. Read more
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YOUNG LEADER Dr Camille Petit received the AIChE 35 Under 35 Award, which recognises leading chemical engineers under the age of 35. Read more
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EXHIBITION The creative talents of chemical engineering students were celebrated last week at the Science // Home photography exhibition launch. Read more and see the winning images
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GOOD ADVICE PhD student Angus Crake was awarded the Materials Science & Technology Literature Review runner-up prize and shared his advice on how to write award-winning literature reviews. Read his tips here
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YOUNG RESEARCHER Narumi Wong, a third-year undergraduate student from the Department took part in the Amgen Scholars research program in Kyoto during the summer, winning the top poster prize at the closing symposium. Read more
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BEST POSTERS
O Sultan Al-Habsi was awarded joint first Soft Matter poster prize at the Thermodynamics 2017 conference in Edinburgh, UK.
O Arnold Duralliu won the best poster prize at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) PhD symposium for his work in freeze drying.
O Shiqi Wang won the best poster prize at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK (CLSS-UK) at Imperial College London.
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NETWORK Students participated in welcoming the CEO of ABB, Ulrich Spiesshofer, to the Department, who visited Imperial to strengthen strategic ties between the university and the technology firm. Later that day, the students also helped with an ABB reception hosted by the UK Secretary for Trade in the Foreign Office in Lancaster House, where they talked to executives from different companies that work with ABB and witnessed new cutting-edge technology demonstrations.
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INNOVATOR Alumnus Victor Dillard won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from MIT Technology Review. Read more
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ENGINEER TALENT Marcus Bishop (class of 2016) received the ACGI Medal for Excellence earlier this year for four years of outstanding performance in the Chemical Engineering course. He is now working as a process engineer.
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Network with alumni and colleagues on the Department's LinkedIn group.
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CLIMATE Imperial researchers have developed a new model for identifying the most cost-effective collective approach towards carbon mitigation, using the United States as a case study. Read more
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FRONT COVER A new paper titled "pH-Responsive, Lysine-Based, Hyperbranched Polymers Mimicking Endosomolytic Cell-Penetrating Peptides for Efficient Intracellular Delivery" by Shiqi Wang and Rongjun Chen made the front cover of Chemistry of Materials in July. Read more
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ADSORPTION Researchers at Imperial College London have successfully produced porous boron nitride with four times better adsorption properties than before to enable more efficient carbon capture. Read more
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MUFFINS Professor Omar Matar is taking part in a £1.6m EPSRC-funded project in collaboration with Newcastle University, Cranfield University, NUS Singapore and industrial oil & gas companies. The project, "MUltiphase Flow-induced Fluid-flexible structure InteractioN in Subsea applications (MUFFINS)" aims to develop the next generation of pioneering technologies and cost-efficient tools for the safe, reliable and real-life designs of subsea systems transporting multiphase hydrocarbon flows and subject to external flow vortex-induced vibrations. Read more
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NANO Researchers have observed a never-before-seen occurrence in Raman scattering, leading to new possibilities in nano-size spectroscopy. Read more
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GREEN GAS Options for a greener gas grid are explored by researchers from Imperial College London in a new white paper. Read the summary here and watch Erin Johnson discussing the paper here
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SOLAR Emerging solar heat technologies possess unique potential to meet an increasing global demand for energy, according to a new briefing paper. Read more
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CRUDE OIL
O A paper titled Energy Efficient Thermal Retrofit Options for Crude Oil Transport in Pipelines, co-authored by Emilio Diaz-Bejarano, Andrey V. Porsin and Sandro Macchietto was published in the new CRC Press book The-Water-Food-Energy-Nexus: Processes, Technologies and Challenges
O A paper titled A numerical investigation of thermal-conductivity mixing models for crude oil fouling deposits, co-authored by Emilio Diaz-Bejarano, Francesco Coletti and Sandro Macchietto was presented at the 15th UK Heat Transfer Conference
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OUTSTANDING Dr Camille Petit was presented with the ExxonMobil European Science & Engineering Program Award for outstanding research in the field of Functional Nanomaterials for Energy and Sustainable (Petro)chemistry. Read more
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HIGHLY CITED A paper by Dr Christos Markides and Ms Maria Herrando Zapater, titled Hybrid PV and solar-thermal systems for domestic heat and power provision in the UK: Techno-economic considerations was awarded the Highly Cited Original Paper Award by Applied Energy. Read the paper
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SUCCESS Congratulations to the Chrysalix Technologies team (Florence Gschwend, Jason Hallett and Agnieszka Brandt-Talbot) who won two awards recently!
O Dr Gschwend and Dr Hallett finished second in the Climate-KIC UK & Ireland Venture Competition Final and won €10,000
O Dr Gschwend received the EIT EU Change Award and won €15,000
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INSPIRATION We spoke to Dr Yolanda Sanchez-Vicente about her work mentoring secondary school students as a STEM Ambassador for CREST. Read more
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MEMPHIS 50 delegates, including industrial partners from BP, CPI, EPSRC, Johnson Matthey, P&G, Syngenta, TOTAL, and academics from Birmingham, Nottingham, and UCL took part in the Memphis Showcase. Read more and check out the videos
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ADJUNCT Professor Erich Muller has been appointed Adjunct Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. Adjunct Professors are honorary positions that allow eminent scholars to provide Universities with new insights into research and education practices.
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CAKES The Department participated in the Macmillan Coffee Morning, a charity bake sale to raise money for Macmillan cancer support. We had a number of delicious cakes on offer and raised £188.41 in the event.
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MEETING Professor Sandro Macchietto was invited to participate in the G7 meeting dedicated to Industry and Innovation held in the Royal Palace of Venaria, Torino, Italy. A multi-stakeholder conference on "Making the digital economy and society inclusive, open and secure" discussed the impact on and opportunities of digitalization for industry and provided input to the G7 Science and Industry ministerial meetings.
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WATCH Catch up on the 2nd Annual Barrer Lecture by Professor Vicki Chen from the University of New South Wales who discussed engineering new membranes and membrane processes for critical environmental challenges. Watch here
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24 NOV Join the Barrer Centre on 24 November for a seminar on improved recovery and energy efficient reverse osmosis process. The seminar will be led by Professor Chong Tzyy Haur from Nanyang Technological University.
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08 NOV Join the Working Girls Network on 8 November for an evening with renowned journalist and broadcaster Kate Silverton, as she explores how to juggle a career and family life.
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21 NOV Join science journalist Angela Saini, author of "Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong" and "New Research That’s Rewriting the Story" on 21 November who will talk about the science behind gender stereotypes and argues that bias and prejudice have tainted research, giving us an inaccurate portrait of women.
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