DrMaria Papathanasiou
Associate Professor in Process Systems Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0002-8886-0624 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate Professor in Process Systems EngineeringDepartment of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- RODH.501D, Roderic Hill Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
- Design spaces and process flexibility
- Machine learning enhanced process design in protein A chromatography (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2025.466193
- A model-based approach towards accelerated process development: a case study on chromatography (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2023.08.016
- Hybrid and machine-learning-based process control
- Integrated dual adaptive control of continuous chromatographic separation processes via reinforcement learning (2026): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2025.466638
- An approach to hybrid modelling in chromatographic separation processes (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dche.2024.100215
- Machine learning for large-scale optimisation
- Deep learning enhanced mixed integer optimization: learning to reduce model dimensionality (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2024.108725
- Comparative assessment of simulation-based and surrogate-based approaches to flowsheet optimization using dimensionality reduction (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2024.108807
- Supply chains for vaccines and advanced therapies
- A Process Systems Engineering approach towards responsive and sustainable (bio-)pharmaceutical supply chains (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109197
- Resilient pharmaceutical supply chains: assessment of stochastic optimization strategies for process uncertainty integration in network design problems (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109013
- Sustainable biomanufacturing
- Sustainable by design: a first attempt on bioprocessing (2026): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109454
- Sustainable by design: a first attempt on bioprocessing (2026): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109454
- Food systems
- Assessing the interaction of particle size distribution and moisture content on the mechanical behaviour of artificial gastric food boluses (2026): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2026.105646
- On the pseudoelastic-viscoelastic behavior of starch hydrogels at various degrees of gelatinization and retrogradation (2025): https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0251424
GRANTS
- STANDARD - CALLEnabling accessible and sustainable CAR T cell therapiesEngineering & Physical Sciences Research Council1 Oct 2026 - 28 Feb 2027
- STANDARD - RESPONSECBET-EPSRC-ecoDACEngineering & Physical Sciences Research Council1 Jun 2026 - 31 May 2030
- STANDARD - CALLGranular Solid Particle Long Duration Energy Storage System (GPStore)Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council15 Apr 2026 - 14 Apr 2029
- STANDARD - CALLEcoCAR: Sustainable CAR T Cell ManufactureInnovate UK1 Nov 2025 - 31 Mar 2029
- STANDARD - CALLNexus: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems for Sustainable BioprocessingInnovate UK1 Feb 2025 - 31 Jan 2027
- STANDARD - CALLWellcome Discretionary Award - Feasibility analysis of nucleic acid-encoded mAb therapiesWellcome Trust1 Nov 2024 - 29 Oct 2027
- STANDARD - RESPONSEFuture vaccine manufacturing hub : Accelerating the manufacture and deployment of cost effective vaccines (DHSC)Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E1 Sep 2023 - 29 Feb 2028
- STANDARD - CALLDigitalisation and automation of high-value biomanufacturing (full stage)Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E1 Jul 2023 - 31 Mar 2027
- STANDARD - CALLi-PREDICT: Integrated adaPtive pRocEss DesIgn and ConTrolEngineering & Physical Science Research Council (E1 Mar 2023 - 28 Feb 2027
- GRANTMeeting the UK demand for COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 vaccines via integrated manufacturing and supply chain optimisationEngineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)20 Jul 2020 - 19 Jan 2022
- GRANTEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
