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Imperial College ChemEng Newsletter

Spring 2017
  1.  Highlights
  2. Students
  3. Alumni
  4. Research news
  5. Awards and prizes 
  6. Around the Department
  7. Events 

1. Highlights

 WORLD-LEADERS   Congratulations to Professor Livingston, Professor Trusler and Dr Song on winning IChemE Medals for their contributions to chemical engineering! Read more about their award
 GET CREATIVE   Calling all students: submit your images for the Departmental Image Competition by 1 May for a chance to win £150! Find out more on our website
 UNDERSTANDING EVAPORATION   New research studied the evaporation of exotic non-spherical droplets for the first time. Read more

2. Students

 CELEBRATION   On 22 March, the Imperial College Chemical Engineering Society hosted its Annual Dinner to celebrate the graduating class of 2017. Read more and check out the pictures
 WELL-DESIGNED  Congratulations to Kagiso Bikane, Panuvit Bunrittiphol, Kelly Kan, Bilal Khan, Siying Lu, James Metcalfe, Arthie Nimalan, Tyrone Scille, Matthew Stevens and Natalie Yip who were runner-ups in the Macnab-Lacey Student Design Prize 2016!
 FELLOWSHIP   Congratulations to Erin Johnson, a postgraduate student at Imperial who has been awarded the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Ashok Kumar Fellowship 2017! Read more
 GOOD SPORTS  Congratulations to our undergraduate students who came 4th on the Frank Morton Sports Day, with a 1st place in chess and a 2nd place in table tennis!
 INTERNSHIP   Congratulations to PhD student Naima Ali who has been awarded a highly competitive internship with the Government Office for Science (GoS)! Read more
 POSTER PRIZE  Congratulations to first year students Alexander Baldwin and Teck Chin whose research poster about their very first Imperial lab experiment won the Best Foundation Lab Poster 2017 award!
 STAR PRESENTER  Congratulations to PhD student Isaac Holmes-Gentle who won the Oral Presentation Prize on the Solar Fuels Network Postgraduate Symposium earlier this year!
 INSPIRING  Listen to this podcast from our PhD student Clementine Chambon, who talks about her social enterprise Oorja Solutions which is planning to provide clean energy to 450 million people in rural India.
 HUMANS OF SCIENCE   Three PhD students from our Department launched a website which aims to promote science by interviewing world-famous scientists and engineers including Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Hewitt and Professor Robert Langer. Read more and check out their page

3. Alumni

 NETWORKING   The Chemical Engineering Society held its very first Alumni Networking event on the 23 February, with alumni attending from BP, Exxon, Deutsche Bank and several self-started companies.
 #GIVEIMPERIAL  On 17 March, Imperial held its first day dedicated to giving: they aimed to raise as much funding for supporting students as possible within 24 hours. Check out the result
Network with alumni and colleagues on the Department's LinkedIn group.

4. Research News

 ANALYSING ART   A new research paper analyses the degradation of white paint on Jackson Pollock's 'Alchemy' using infrared spectroscopic imaging. Read more
 BIOFUEL  New research paper describes a simple and efficient strategy to separate high-value feedstocks from pyrolysis bio-oil. Read more
 TOP DOWNLOAD  Congratulations to Dr Jason Hallett and his team whose paper was one of the top 50 most downloaded articles in 2016 in the PCCP journal! Read the paper
 CARBON   A new research paper published in Nature Climate Change assesses the efficacy of carbon capture and utilization (CCU) in mitigating climate change. Read more
 TOP TEAM  Congratulations to Professor Alexander Bismarck whose highly successful research group PaCE was featured in Materials Today! Read more
 PORES  A new research paper published in Advances in Water Resources explores qualitative and quantitative method to capture heterogeneity at pore-scale. Read the paper

5. Awards & Appointments

 INNOVATION   A team from our Department received funding from the new Excellence Fund for Learning and Teaching Innovation. They aim to establish the Imperial College Concept Collaboratory (ICCC), which will act as a repository for concept-based education at Imperial.
 £50K AWARD  Dr Jason Hallett and Chrysalix Technologies won the Royal Society Translation Award to scale-up their research on ionic liquids. Read more
 FORBES U30 
PhD student Florence Gschwend and alumnus Victor Dillard were named on the Forbes 30-Under-30 entrepreneur list. Read more
 NANO  PhD student Siyuan Chen was recently awarded the ACS Nano Young Scientist Award at the International Nanomedicine Conference in Wuhan, China.

6. Around the Department

 PROMOTIONS   Congratulations to Dr Jerry Heng and Dr Cleo Kontoravdi who were promoted to Readers and Dr Ronny Pini who was promoted to Senior Lecturer!
 LITTLE CHEMENG  We would like to offer our warmest wishes to three couples who recently welcomed new arrivals to their families. Congratulations to Dr Valeria Garbin on the birth of her baby Alice, Dr Emmanuel "Chidi" Efika and his wife Vivian on the birth of their baby Kainenechi Elsie and Dr Kyra Lauren Sedransk Campbell on the birth of her baby Aurelia.
 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS  On 23 March our Department proudly hosted a delegation from Mexico's Secretary of Energy (SENER) including Mexico’s undersecretary for planning and energy transition, Leonardo Beltrán Rodríguez. Read more
 MEMBRANES  Professor Andrew Livingston recently gave an interview to Nature Materials about his research on membranes and on his work at the Barrer Centre. Read the interview
 #CHEMENGDAYUK   Our students and staff attended the annual celebration of chemical engineering in Birmingham on 27 and 28 March. Read more and see the video
 EDITOR  Congratulations to Dr. Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez who recently joined the Editorial Board of the journal "Sustainable Production and Consumption", published by IChemE, which focuses on the production and use of products and services in a manner that is socially beneficial, economically viable and environmentally benign over their whole life cycle.
 MEDAL  SCI and RSC held the McBain Medal symposium on 27 March in honour of the 2016 McBain Medal winner Dr Joao Cabral. Speakers included Professor Dame Julia Higgins FRS and Professor Tom McLeish FRS. Check the full program
 KEYNOTE  Professor Omar Matar recently gave a keynote presentation at ChemEngDayUK and the Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference as well as a departmental seminar at the University of Surrey. 
 POWER  Dr Christos Markides talked about a volunteer project he is involved in to build up scientific expertise in solar energy in Africa. Read the Q&A
 LECTURE FROM A LEGEND  On 14 March we welcomed Sir Martyn Poliakoff, Professor at University of Nottingham and Youtube legend, for our 41st Annual Newitt Lecture.
 DISTINGUISHED  We recently welcomed Professor Sangwon Suh (UC Santa Barbara, USA), Dr Lauren Greenlee (University of Arkansas, USA) and Dr Robert Grass (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) as part of our Distinguished Seminar Series: Young Academics Forum. 
 CHARITY  The Department held a bake sale on Friday 7 April and raised an incredible £134 in aid of Place2Be, a mental health charity. Thank you to everyone who got involved - eating or baking!
 HEAVY  Professor Rafael Kandiyoti (retired Distinguished Research Fellow) recently published the second edition of his textbook "Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids: Thermal Characterization and Analysis", co-authored with Dr Alan Herod, Professor Keith Bartle and Dr Trevor Morgan. Check out the book

7. Events

 6-7 MAY  Check out the events programme for this year's Imperial Festival and register for tickets.
 10 MAY  The next seminar in our Distinguished Seminar Series is by Professor Ali Javey (University of California Berkeley), titled Materials and device innovations for future electronics and sensors
 31 MAY  Upcoming seminar in our Distinguished Seminar Series is by Professor Xuehua Zhang (RMIT University, Australia), titled Ouzo at interfaces: formation of surface nanodroplets under controlled flow conditions.
 03 JULY  The last seminar in our Distinguished Seminar Series is by Professor Liangfang Zhang (University of California, San Diego), titled Engineering biomimetic nanoparticles for drug delivery, detoxification and vaccination.

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