BIO

Biography
Date Role
2014-
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
2008-2014
Reader in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
2007
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
2006-2008
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
2002-2005
Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University
1995-2002
Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University
1995
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
1991-1994
PhD and DIC, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
1989-1991
Research Assistant, Oil, Gas and Coal Institute, University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
1984-1990
Dipl. Ing. (TH) in Chemical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Research Areas
Sustainable Reaction Engineering and Catalysis
Algae and cyanobacteria (hydrogen, biofuels, biomass, bioceuticals)Biomass Reforming (APR, biogas, oxygenates), Biofuels (biodiesel, pyrolysis oil upgrading), Bio-photolytic and photo-electrochemical Hydrogen Production, Hydrothermal and supercritical fluids processing (algae, biomass, heavy oil)Flow Chemistry (multiphase electrochemical flow, partial oxidations, aminations, esterification, amide reduction)Unconventional Fuel Cells (Carbon/Air, reverse sold oxide, sulphide)Flux Response Technology, Hydrotreating (HDS, HDN, HDM - heavy oils)

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Engineering

POSITION NAME

  • Professor of Chemical Engineering

FIELDS OF RESEARCH