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ProfessorNina Thornhill, FREng

Emeritus Professor of Process Automation

Department of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering

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  • Emeritus Professor of Process Automation
    Department of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
  • ACE Extension, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • AWARD
    SELECTED
    Selected
    IEEE Power & Energy Society Prize Paper Award, as co-author of the paper: "A dynamic mode decomposition framework for global power system oscillation nnalysis" by Emilio Barocio, Bikash C. Pal, Nina F. Thornhill and Arturo Roman Messina, in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
    1 Jan 2018
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    Elected as Fellow of IFAC for contributions to process monitoring, fault diagnosis and detection and optimal operation of large-scale production facilities
    29 Jul 2022
    International Federation of Automatic Control
  • MEMBERSHIP OF A PROFESSIONAL BODY
    Fellow of IFAC
    29 Jul 2022
    2022-07-29 - International Federation of Automatic Control
  • AWARD
    Nordic Process Control Award "for novel contributions in research to developing innovative approaches, tools and methods for process monitoring, fault diagnosis and detection and optimal operation of large scale production facilities."
    1 Jan 2019
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    President's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision.
    26 Apr 2017
    Imperial College London
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    The President's Award and Medal for Excellence in External Collaboration and Partnerships, awarded to the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant (CCPP) Team, Imperial College London.
    1 Jan 2017
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    President’s Award for Outstanding Research Team as a member of the Control and Power Research Group led by Prof Bikash Pal (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering).
    1 Jan 2016
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    Board of Trustees (opens in a new tab)⁠
    10 Sep 2007 - 12 Oct 2020
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  • AWARD
    ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Process Automation (2007-12). Renewed as the ABB Chair of Process Automation 2012-17 and 2017-2020.
    1 Jan 2007
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    IFAC Journal of Process Control Best Paper Award category 'methodology / theory', with co-authors B. Huang (U of Alberta) and H. Zhang (Matrikon Inc)
    1 Jan 2005
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (opens in a new tab)⁠
    6 Jan 2003
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  • AWARD
    Annual ICI Prize for the best paper published in the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, with C.C. Tan (undergraduate student) and R. Belchamber (PAA Ltd)
    1 Jan 2002
    Institute of Measurement and Control
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    UCL Faculty of Engineering Teaching Award
    1 Jan 2002
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    CAST Director's Award with C. Alheritiere, (PhD student and principal author), M.J. Knight (BP Oil) and S. Fraser (BP Oil)
    1 Jan 1997
    AIChE
  • MEMBERSHIP OF A PROFESSIONAL BODY
    FIChemE (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Institution of Chemical Engineers
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    FIET (FIEE) (opens in a new tab)⁠
    The Institution of Engineering and Technology
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    FREng (opens in a new tab)⁠
    The Royal Academy of Engineering
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    Senior Member (opens in a new tab)⁠
    IEEE
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