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TEAMBUILDING Our team of Teaching Fellows ran their first team building sessions with our new cohort of undergraduate students, where they took part in several challenges to develop their team-working skills. See the photos
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ENTERPRISE Undergraduate Yousuf Al-Riyami was part of the team who took joint third prize at the Enterprise Lab Launch Weekend 2018 competition. They successfully pitched their idea to develop an outfit planning app that can help users choose what to wear from their wardrobe and suggest new clothing to purchase. Read more
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FUTURE LEADERS Blessed Mahovo, second year undergraduate, has been inducted into the Future Global Leaders Fellowship programme, which picks 20 ambitious students and matches them with global mentors who support them in developing the skills needed for them to fulfill their potential. Read more about the programme
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CHECKMATE Congratulations to fourth year undergraduate Thomas Donaldson who won the Northern Irish (Ulster) Chess Championship in the summer. Read more
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ICESKATING The MSc well-being rep Meriam Mohammedture organised an ice-skating session at the Natural History Museum ice rink - a welcome break for many!
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GRADUATION Congratulations to the class of 2014 who graduated and joined our ranks of alumni! See the photos
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APPOINTMENTS While we are sad to say goodbye to several postdocs who are moving on to positions elsewhere, we're also excited to see what they do next and wish them all the best in their endeavors!
- Dr Salman Shahid will start a lectureship in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath
- Dr Aditya Karnik has started a lectureship at Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen)
- Dr Jason Stafford has accepted a lectureship position at the University of Birmingham
- Dr Mirco Magnini has accepted a lectureship position at the University of Nottingham
- Dr Lisa Joss has been awarded one of the two BP-ICAM Kathleen Lonsdale Research Fellowships and will join the University of Manchester.
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IRONMAN Former undergraduate student Anna Lawson competed in the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, completing a 3.8km swim, 180km bike ride and 42.2km run. She finished in 10 hours and 41 minutes, placing her 7th in her age category!
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Like our LinkedIn page and keep in touch with us, or join our official group to network with other chemical engineers from the department.
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PEGABET Research by Dr Ruijao Dong and Professor Andrew Livingston was published in Nature Chemistry. It details their success in creating a new class of multi-precision polymer with their 'Nanostar Sieving' technique. They also adapted the polymer sequence to spell 'LOLLOL' and 'LONDON'. Read more
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED
[1] The carbon credentials of hydrogen gas networks and supply chains, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (P. Balcombe, J. Speirs, E. Johnson, J. Martin, N. Brandon, A. Hawkes)
[2] Advancing experiential learning through participatory design, Education for Chemical Engineers (P. Inguva, D. Lee-Lane, A. Teck, B. Anabaraonye, W. Chen, U. V. Shah C. Brechtelsbauer)
[3] Titanium dioxide/carbon nitride nanosheet nanocomposites for gas phase CO2 photoreduction under UV-visible irradiation, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (A. Crake, K. C.Christoforidisa, R. Godin, B. Moss, A. Kafizas, S. Zafeiratos, J. R.Durrant, C. Petit)
[4] Tuning Thermally Treated Graphitic Carbon Nitride for H2 Evolution and CO2 Photoreduction: The Effects of Material Properties and Mid-Gap States, ACS Applied Energy Materials (E. M. Dias, K. C. Christoforidis, L. Francàs, and C. Petit)
[5] Compressed air energy storage - A new heat integration, liquid-compression approach, Energy Learning, (C.Markides, R. Sacks)
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COVER FEATURE An article by Professor Omar Matar, Dr Camille Petit and Dr Jason Stafford is the cover feature for the December/January issue of The Chemical Engineer. It looks at the engineering challenges of scaling up the production of graphene, and is available to view online.
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INVITED TALKS
Dr Camille Petit has been invited to speak present:
- Keynote at MOF2018 conference in December 2018, Auckland, New Zealand: http://mof2018.com
- Keynote at the 2019 British Zeolite Association meeting, April 2019, Birmingham, UK: http://www.bza.org
- Plenary at the Fundamentals of Adsorption meeting, May 2019, Cairns, Australia: https://foa2019.com
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INTERIM DIRECTOR Professor Andrew Livingston has been appointed Interim Director for the Rosalind Franklin Institute until May 2019.
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FELLOW Professor Omar Matar became Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).
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PAPER AWARDS
- Best Paper ORC International Conference 2017: Solar/biomass hybrid cycles with thermal storage and bottoming ORC: System integration and economic analysis, Antonio M Pantaleo, Sergio M Camporeale, Arianna Sorrentino, Adio Miliozzi, Nilay Shah, Christos N Markides.
- Most Cited Research Paper by Applied Energy International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2018): An assessment of solar-powered organic Rankine cycle systems for combined heating and power in UK domestic applications, J. Freeman, K. Hellgardt, C. N. Markides.
- Editor's Suggestion: Experimental investigations of liquid falling films flowing under an inclined planar substrate, Alexandros Charogiannis, Fabian Denner, Berend G. M. van Wachem, Serafim Kalliadasis, Benoit Scheid, and Christos N. Markides
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EDITORSHIP Professor Sergei Kazarian has taken up the position of Editor-in-Chief for Applied Spectroscopy, a particularly notable achievement as he is the first of the journal's editors to reside outside of North America in the journal's 60 year history.
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PHD PRIZES Several PhD students have won awards:
- Ravi Shankar won the Highly Commended poster prize at the Energy Futures Lab Renewable Fuel Generation and Energy Storage Symposium.
- Phantisa Limleamthong won the Anglo Thai Educational Award for Excellence in Evnvironment 2018.
- Luciana Miu won Best Paper at the International Conference on Sustainable Development.
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RECOGNITION The department recently launched its reward and recognition scheme for professional and research staff. Congratulations to our first cohort of award recipients (pictured) who were announced at our staff mixer in November!
For details of the award criteria and to nominate yourself or a colleague see our intranet pages.
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BLOGS Recently published by Sustainable Gas Institute:
- The importance of decarbonising transport for meeting global emission targets. Read online
- Next SGI white paper will explore whether natural gas can play a role in decarbonising the transport sector. Read online
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NEW LIBRARIAN Welcome to our new subject librarian Lynne Meehan!
"Hello, my name is Lynne Meehan and I am your new librarian for Chemical Engineering. I am your primary point of contact with the library and here to support the learning, teaching and research needs staff and students in the Chemical Engineering Department. I support the department by providing training and on finding, managing and evaluating information, answering queries about the library and its resources( including the Leganto reading list system), and providing research advice in areas such as open access and research data management.
You can contact me at lynne.meehan@imperial.ac.uk, call me on 020 7594 5598 or find me on twitter @LynneMLib and I’d love to hear from you."
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NEW ARRIVALS Congratulations Chris Mazur who has become a first time dad - we hope you're enjoying the time with the new member of your family!
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REMEMBERING Our thoughts are with the family of Dr Mike Carabine who passed away recently after a stroke. He was an extremely good Senior Tutor and UG Admissions Tutor - and a good friend to the Department, where he worked for just under 40 years.
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9 JAN 'How can we celebrate and support diversity in STEM: a younger perspective', NHLI Athena SWAN Lecture. Read more
28 JAN 'Can natural gas reduce emissions from transport? Heavy Goods and Shipping', SGI Institute White Paper Series. Read more
13 FEB 'The Current Status of Biofuels in Brazil', Department of Chemical Engineeering and SGI Institute. Read more
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