Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site


2017-06-08 13:00: 3D printed Porous Media - Disrupting the Packed Bed Paradigm (Prof. Conan Fee, Head of School of Product Design, University of Canterbury, NZ))

2017-06-21 11:00: Time series forecasting touching on evolutionary numerical optimization (Prof Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University)

2017-06-29 15:30: Modified starch polymers and blends for packaging, industrial and biomedical applications (Professor Pete Halley - Head of the Chemical Engineering Dept, Queensland University, Australia)

2017-07-07 11:30: Fibre based laser technology - taking basic research into application and forming a multi million pound business (Prof Grudinin, founder and CEO of Fianium)

2017-09-06 11:00: Emergent Many-body Interactions in Amorphous Solids (Yoav Pollack, The Weizmann Institute of Science)

2018-02-07 14:00: Fluorogen Switch (Marcel Bruchez, Carnegie Mellon)

2018-02-14 14:15: Super-resolution microscopy: Challenges and Potentials in biomedical research (Professor Christian Eggeling, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

2018-03-16 14:00: Optical Coherence Tomography for Pharmaceutical Coatings  and Coping with the Raw Data Nightmare (Patrick Wahl, Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH, Graz, Austria)

2018-06-14 12:30: BREAKING  THE SILENCE –  Where you draw the  line? (Dr Miriam Lynn, Equality and Diversity Section and Tracy Brooks, School of Technology Human Resources Business Manager)

2018-06-27 15:00: Cellulose Biointerface for Paper Diagnostics (Gil Garnier from Monash University)

2018-11-08 14:30: First Year Talks (Various)

2019-11-13 14:00: Chemobrionics (Professor Julyan Cartwright, University of Granada, Spain)

2019-11-27 13:30: Halide perovskites for next-generation photovoltaics and lighting (Dr Sam Stranks (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-08 13:30: Bigger Picture Talks @ CEB - Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?  (Professor Alexander Borodavska, CEB University of Cambridge)

2023-11-23 13:30: Bigger Picture Talks @ CEB -  One And One Isn’t Always Two - The Arithmetic of Carbon (Marcella McManus - University of Bath)

2024-01-19 13:00: Bigger Picture Talks @ CEB - From Molecular Photovoltaics to Perovskite Solar Cells (Michael Graetzel - EPF Lausanne)

2024-02-07 13:30: Bigger Picture Talks @ CEB - Pre-Procedural Planning of Transcatheter Heart Valve Interventions with Clinical Imaging and in silico Modelling (Shelly Singh-Gryzbon )

2024-05-21 11:30: High-Throughput Energy Materials Discovery  (Udo Bach - Monash University)

2024-10-17 13:00: Directing homeostasis in cells and cell colonies with AI-driven bioelectronics (Professor Marco Rolandi - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz)

2024-12-05 16:00: Impacting Medicine with Microfluidic Innovations: Advancing Medicine and Diagnostics (Prof. Utkan Demirci, Stanford University School of Medicine)

2025-02-06 13:30: Situated Green Chemistries (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-02-18 13:30: AI for better brain and mental health (Professor Zoe Kourtzi - University of Cambridge)

2025-05-06 14:30: Big Picture Talk: Bhopal 40 years on - What have we learned? (Professor Fiona Macleod)

2025-09-19 11:00: Green Synthesis Approaches of Metal Halide Perovskites for Efficient Solar Cells and Beyond (Prof Hongxia Wang - Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

2025-10-29 13:30: AI-Driven Chemical Processes: From Human-in-the-Loop to Self-Optimising Labs (Dr Antonio del Rio Chanona - Imperial College London)

2025-11-12 15:45: Science in food: rheology, yielding and strain stiffening in entangled assemblies of chains - from spaghetti to polymers  (Mehdi Habibi - Laboratory of Physics and Physical Chemistry of Foods, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

2025-11-26 13:30: 2024 Robin Paul prize lecture: The Hydrogen Catalyst: Removing a Quantum Barrier to Fuel Sustainable Aviation (Paula Mendoza-Moreno - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-11 13:30: Bigger Picture Talk: Turning Start-ups into Reality with Chemical Engineering  (Rulande Rogers - Chief Technology Officer, Thermulon Ltd.)

2026-02-25 13:30: Bigger Picture Talk: Boosting local biomanufacturing in the global south to impact health and sustainability (Dr Jenny Molloy - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-26 14:00: LECTURE SERIES: Biosensors, process modelling, strain engineering and AI protein design talks (Various)

2026-03-18 13:30: Bigger Picture Talk: Community-Based Participatory Research on Food-Energy-Water Projects (Dr Vasiliki Karanikola - University of Arizona)

2026-05-08 13:30: Bigger Picture Talk: Developing future  marine engines running on ammonia and other green fuels (Johan Hult - Everllence)