Academic staff
Chemical Engineering - Academic staff
Professor Mark Banaszak Holl
Research Interests:
Drug Delivery, Gene Delivery, Collagen Structure and Polymer Synthesis.
Professor Udo Bach
Research Interests:
Dye-sensitized Tandem Solar Cells, Back-Contact Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Novel Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Tandem Solar Cells, New infrared sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells, Size-selective separation of gold-nano-particles and Templated placement of individual nano-particles, DNA-Directed Nanofabrication.
A/Professor Warren Batchelor
Research Interests:
Cellulose Fibres, Paper Strength, Life Cycle Analysis, Nanomaterials, Nonwoven Structure, Sustainability, Adsorbent Development, Cellulose nanofibres, Membrane separation.
Professor Sankar Bhattacharya
Research Interests:
Gasification and pyrolysis – biomass, coal, petroleum coke and wastes for fuel and chemicals production; Advanced combustion for easier CO 2 capture - Chemical looping, Oxy-pf and Oxy-CFB combustion; Biofuels from biomass and algae; Coal and biomass drying; Life Cycle Analysis; Platform chemicals from biomass
Dr. Parama Chakraborty Banerjee
Research Interests:
Electrochemistry, energy, batteries, supercapacitors, 2D materials, carbon, coatings, corrosion, nanomaterials, nanotechnology.
Professor Wenlong Cheng
Research Interests:
Soft wearable biomedical sensors, nanoparticles, DNA, green chemistry, nanocatalyts, superlattices, plasmonics
Dr. Simon Corrie
Research Interests:
Diagnostics, biosensors, nano-particles and bio-materials.
Dr. Bai-Qian Dai
Research Interests:
Coal combustion and gasification; Clean coal technologies, Ash deposition.
Dr. Sushil Dhital
Research Interests:
Food Structure, Food Processing, Enzyme Kinetics, In-vitro Models, Starch, Plant cell walls
Professor Gil Garnier
Research Interests:
Interfacial Engineering, Biodiagnostics, Biorefinery, Biomaterials, Nanocellulose Composites, Colloids and Surface, Industrial Water Treatment, Paper, Polymers, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Processes, Circular Economy.
A/Professor Victoria Haritos
Research Interests:
Enzyme discovery and design; metabolic engineering of yeast and bacteria; systems biology of cultured cells. Application areas: biocatalysis; bioprocessing; manufacturing; energy
Dr. Lizhong He
Research Interests:
Engineering bio-interfaces, enzymes and bio-catalysts, drug delivery suing nano-particles, peptide-based bio-materials, neutron and x-ray scattering.
A/Professor Matthew Hill
Research Interests:
Development and application of porous materials: storage, separation and triggered release of small molecules with adsorbents and membranes, flow chemistry, lithium-sulfur batteries, vanadium redox flow batteries, and super-capacitors.
A/Professor Andrew Hoadley
Research Interests:
Carbon Sequestration, Dewatering Processes, Drying Processes, Greenhouse Gases, Multi-Objective Optimisation, Process plant design, Sustainablility, Waste Water Treatment.
A/Professor Laura-lee Innes
Research Interests:
Waste and contamination management, remediation and contaminant fate and transport.
Professor Ravi Jagadeeshan
Research Interests:
Polymer Rheology, Polymer Kinetic Theory, Brownian Dynamics, Viscoelastic Free-Surface Flows.
Professor Lei Jiang
Research Interests:
Bioinspired Multiscale Interface Materials (Special Wettability), invented a variety of new methods to reveal the mechanism of superhydrophobicity on the surface of organisms; bionic multi-scale interface materials, nano-channels Construction and application; bionic intelligent nano-channel construction and its application in energy conversion.
A/Professor Xuchuan Jiang
Research Interests:
Smart coatings, Gas sensors, Nanofabrication, Catalysis.
Dr. Zhikao Li
A/Professor Daniela Loessner
Research Interests:
Biomaterials, biomechanics, 3D cell culture models, matrix biology, tissue engineering
A/Professor Nicoleta Maynard
Research Interests:
Engineering education research; development of learning environments for teaching and assessing employability skills – teamwork, leadership and reflective practice; design thinking, STEM education; qualitative research methods.
Dr. Shanthi Priya Samudrala
Research Interests:
Heterogeneous catalysis, Bioglycerol valorization to fuels and chemicals, CO2 utilization and conversion, Three-dimensional printing in catalysis, Fine chemical synthesis, Organic transformations, Microwave Chemistry.
Professor Murali Sastry
Research Interests:
Murali’s research is centred around : 1) bioinspired and biomimetic nanomaterial synthesis, 2) shape-controlled nanomaterials and plasmonics, 3) Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett films, 4) surface spectroscopies, 5) water purification technologies and appropriate standards and 6) end-to-end innovation and product development.
A/Professor Timothy Scott
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor Wei Shen
Research Interests:
Bioactive paper and bioactive thread microfluidic diagnostics, Liquid marble microreactors for biochemical and biological applications, Engineering and biochemical applications of superhydrophobic surfaces, Surface engineering for wetting, adhesion and pharmaceutical applications, Printing science ink transfer fundamental and ink paper interaction.
Professor Raman Singh
Research Interests:
Corrosion, Corrosion Mitigation, Stress Corrosion-Cracking, Nano crystalline Alloys and Graphene Coatings.
A/Professor Akshat Tanksale
Research Interests:
CO2 Conversion and Utilisation, Biofuels, Green Chemistry, Biorefinery, Catalysis, Hydrogen Production and Storage, Meso- and Micro-Porous Materials as Catalysts.
Dr. Joanne Tanner
Research Interests:
Biorefinery, Sustainable Processes, Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
Dr. Leonie van 't Hag
Research Interests:
Self-assembly, food structure, drug delivery, therapeutic peptides, protein structures, X-ray and neutron scattering, in meso crystallisation, lipid mesophases, colloids, functional materials
Professor Huanting Wang
Research Interests:
Ceramic membrane, desalination, gas separation, metal organic framework, polymer composite membrane, porous material, separation membrane, fuel cell and water treatment.
Professor Paul Webley
Research Interests:
Hydrogen Energy and Production Technologies
Professor Aibing Yu
Research Interests:
Particle science and technology, process engineering, process metallurgy, chemical engineering, material engineering, modelling and simulation.
A/Professor Lian Zhang
Research Interests:
Low-emission combustion, gasification, pyrolysis of coal, biomass and scrap tyre, hydro-metallurgical leaching, fly ash utilisation, clean energy, hydrometallurgy.
Professor Xiwang Zhang
Research Interests:
Membrane Technologies, Water Treatment, Nanomaterials, Catalytic oxidation, Photocatalysis, Desalination, Disinfection
Professor Dongyuan Zhao
Research Interests:
Core-Shell Nanostructures, Mesoporous Materials, Microporous Coordination Polymers, Templating Synthesis, Zeolites.
Dr. Zongyan Zhou
Research Interests:
CFD-DEM, discrete element method, Multi-phase flow and heat transfer modelling, powder technology, iron-making blast furnace model.