Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars


2006-10-18 15:30: Transduction of chemical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa using polymer brushes (Dr Wilhelm Huck, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-25 14:45: Research student presentations (PhD students, Department of Chemical Engineering)

2006-11-01 15:30: Energy flows in buildings (Professor Andrew Woods, BP Institute)

2006-11-08 15:30: Solving kinetic theory models of complex fluids: Recent developments and new challenges. (Professor Francisco (Paco) Chinesta, LMSP UMR CNRS-ENSAM Paris)

2006-11-16 15:30: Coating colloids for colours (Dr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research)

2006-11-22 15:30: Nanoceramics Synthesis and Discovery; Clean, Fast and Controllable Methods (Dr. Jawwad Dar, Department of Materials, Queen Mary University of London)

2007-01-24 15:30: Knowledge Based Process Engineering:  Hybrid Modelling of Industrial Fed-batch Processes (Professor S. Feyo de Azevedo, Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal)

2007-01-31 14:45: Research Students’ Seminars (Research Students)

2007-02-07 15:30: Creating and Harnessing Complex Reaction Networks (Professor Linda Broadbelt, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University)

2007-02-14 15:30: Stresses in drying films (Bill Clegg, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-21 15:30: Mixing in stratified fluids (Dr Colm Caulfield, DAMPT and BP Institute, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-28 15:30: International Interfaces (Jacquin Wilford-Brown , International Coatings)

2007-03-07 15:30: Extensional rheometry of inhomogeneous thickener solutions for coating applications (Norbert Willenbacher, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

2007-03-14 15:30: New Technologies in Bioseparations and Biosensing from Engineered Multi-domain Self-modifying Proteins (David Wood – Dept of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University)

2007-05-02 15:30: Modelling soot and carbon nanotube formation (Matthew Celnik)

2007-05-02 16:00: Improved solutions for zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) control (Raquel Costa)

2007-05-09 15:30: The drying of detergents (Jonathan Griffith)

2007-05-09 16:00: Modelling drying and particle formation in spray towers (Christopher Handscomb)

2007-05-09 16:30: Rheology and Processing of Pharmaceutical Pastes (Salvatore Mascia)

2007-05-16 15:30: Dissolution mechanisms of protein gels (Ruben Mercade)

2007-05-16 16:00: MRI velocimetry studies of multiphase systems (Mark Sankey)

2007-05-16 16:30: Studies of Environmentally Responsive Polymer Systems using Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (Ellen Xiaowen Dai)

2007-05-23 15:30: Fouling Behaviour of Food Fats (Reilly Nigo)

2007-05-23 16:00: MRI studies of controlled release pharmaceutical delivery systems (James Collins)

2007-05-23 16:30: Investigating the motion of particles within gas-solid fluidised beds using MRI and PIV (Andrew Hawkins)

2007-05-30 15:30: Quantitative fluorescence microscopy (Alan Elder)

2007-05-30 16:00: Chemically Resolved MRI Mapping of Multiphase Reactors (Christopher Dunckley)

2007-05-30 16:30: Magnetic resonance studies of catalysts and catalytic processes (Zhenyu Huang)

2007-06-06 15:30: The heterogeneous reaction of oxides of nitrogen with carbonaceous particles (Christopher Tighe)

2007-06-06 16:00: Modelling the combustion synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles (Richard West)

2007-06-06 16:30: Multidimensional modelling of granulation (Andreas Braumann)

2007-06-13 15:30: Characterisation of complex fluids using MRI (Colin Davies)

2007-06-13 16:00: Micro and Nano voltammetric studies: A numerial approach (GuoQing (David) Du)

2007-06-13 16:30: Sticky business: adhesion to surfaces (Phanida Saikhwan)

2007-06-20 15:30: A stochastic reactor model for simulating direct injection HCCI engines (Haiyun Su)

2007-06-20 16:00: Colloidosome Microcapsules (Grace Yow)

2007-06-20 16:30: Putting Structure into a Structured Product (Dave White)

2007-10-10 15:30: Design of Experiments (Ian MacPherson/Paul Nelson, PRISM training and consultancy)

2007-10-17 15:30: High-throughput determination of protein stability and refolding in microtiter plates (Paul Dalby - UCl)

2007-10-24 14:40: Research Student presentations (Research Student presentations)

2007-10-31 15:30: Dye-sensitized solar cells - finding out how they work (Prof Laurie Peter – University of Bath)

2007-11-07 15:30: Structure formation in rotating turbulence (Dr Peter Davidson – Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2007-11-14 15:30: Studies of Contact Mechanics Employing the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (Diethelm Johannsmann, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Clausthal University of Technology)

2007-11-21 15:30: Mathematical modelling of directed cell migration (J. Krishnan, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College)

2007-11-28 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Alex Taylor, Imperial College, London)

2008-01-23 15:30: Foam Fractionation of Biosurfactants (Dr Peter Martin, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester)

2008-01-30 14:40: Research Students’ Seminars (Research Student presentations)

2008-02-06 15:30: Challenges for UK Innovation and Entrepreneurial Chemical Engineering. (Dr Peter Davidson)

2008-02-20 15:30: The Buncefield explosion (Professor Derek Bradley, Research Professor, Leeds University)

2008-02-27 15:30: The Chameleon Plane (Dr Matthew Juniper, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2008-03-05 15:30: Experimental and CFD modelling investigations of dense gas-solid fluidized beds (Dr Paola Lettieri, Chemical Engineering dept, UCL)

2008-03-12 15:30: Some aspects of the energy scene (Dr Jack Howard, Aston University)

2008-04-30 15:30: Application of advanced NMR techniques to agrochemical systems (Thusara C Chandrasekera)

2008-05-07 15:30: Microcapillary films (Dora Medina)

2008-05-07 16:00: Biostabilisation of mammalian cells (Zei Yan Leow)

2008-05-07 16:30: Thermal treatment of cake flours (Amy Chesterton)

2008-05-14 15:30: Production of hydrogen from coal (Roberta Pacciani)

2008-05-14 16:00: MRI studies of chemical reactors (Thoa T M Nguyen)

2008-05-21 15:30: Polymer crystallisation (Lino Scelsi)

2008-05-21 16:00: Wavelength agile laser sensor for high-speed and ultra-sensitive detection (Rosalynne Watt)

2008-05-21 16:30: Making viral gene therapy vectors (Matthew Cheeks)

2008-05-28 15:30: Microreactors (Yunfeng Gu)

2008-05-28 16:00: Micro-bioreactors (Abhishek G Deshpande)

2008-05-28 16:30: Lattice Boltzmann MRI studies of biofilm systems (Daniel Graf von der Schulenburg)

2008-06-04 15:30: Applications of laser diagnostics to turbulent premixed flames (Robin Chrystie)

2008-06-04 16:00: Applications of pulsed field gradient NMR techniques to study diffusion in porous media (Daniel Weber)

2008-06-04 16:30: Rheology of marmite (David White)

2008-06-11 15:30: Carbon nanotube suspensions : processing and properties (Wing Kui Anson Ma)

2008-06-11 16:00: Binder removal and defect formation during debinding of ceramic cores (Ian Somasundram)

2008-06-11 16:30: Optimal control and optimisation of chemotherapy treatments (Marios Hadjiandreou)

2008-10-15 15:30: Research Students Presentations (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-22 15:30: Extruding opals and other stories: The Self-assembly of NanoMaterials for Light (Prof Jeremy Baumberg, Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-29 15:30: Nanoporous Solids: The Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis. (Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, Dept of Materials Science and Metellurgy, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-05 15:30: Self organization of  discrete fibre reinforcements in polymer flows (Professor Stephen Bush)

2008-11-12 15:30: A chemical engineer's perspective on systems biology illustrated by a model-based analysis of eukaryotic protein synthesis (Dr Stephen Wilkinson, Dept of Chemistry, Manchester University)

2008-11-19 15:30: Direct synthesis and spinning of carbon nanotube fibres (Professor Alan Windle, Dept of Materials Science and Metellurgy, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-26 15:30: Bioengineering and the skin.  Transdermal technologies for drug delivery and clinical monitoring. (Professor Richard Guy, Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, University of Bath)

2009-01-21 15:30: Protein aggregation: teasing out generalities (Professor Athene Donald, Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge)

2009-01-28 14:00: Research Students’ Seminars (Research Students’ Seminars)

2009-02-04 15:30: Interfacial structural conformations of proteins and DNA fragments (Professor Jian Lu, Dept of Physics, University of Manchester)

2009-02-11 15:30: Exhaust After-treatment Catalysis (Dr Andrew York, Johnson Matthey and Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.)

2009-02-25 15:30: Disease Biomarkers in first-onset Schizophrenia (Dr Sabine Bahn, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2009-03-04 15:30: Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport (Dr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK)

2009-04-29 15:30: Controlling encrusting organisms in potable water treatment works (Rebecca Mant)

2009-04-29 15:50: Modelling Particle Motion within Rotating Cylinders (James Third)

2009-04-29 16:10: New insights into the dissolution process of a controlled drug release polymeric matrix revealed by quantitative ultra-fast MRI (Ya Ying Chen)

2009-05-06 15:30: Fouling in heat exchangers of crude distillation units (Edward Ishiyama)

2009-05-06 15:50: Clean coal technology: A novel process for the combustion of coal using an oxygen carrier (Shin Yong Chuang)

2009-05-06 16:10: Use of ultrasound and magnetic particles in targeted therapy (Moira Smith)

2009-05-13 15:30: The production of pure hydrogen from a carbonaceous fuel with simultaneous CO2 capture (Christopher Bohn)

2009-05-13 15:50: Simulating the SI-HCCI transition (Jonathan Etheridge)

2009-05-13 16:10: Use of expanded bed adsorption to purify flavonoids from Ginkgo. biloba leaves (Jing Li)

2009-05-20 15:30: Sustainability (Anna Stevenson)

2009-05-20 15:50: Modelling of HCCI Engine (Ali Aldawood)

2009-05-20 16:10: Fluid Dynamic Gauging in Annular geometries (Tong  Gu)

2009-05-27 15:30: Numerical study of the formation and growth of soot particles in combustion devices (Abhijeet Raj)

2009-05-27 15:50: Spectroscopic Studies of Moisture Transport in Food Wafer Systems (Prodromos Parasoglou)

2009-05-27 16:10: Emulsion Phase Inversion (Yasar Khan)

2009-06-03 15:30: Polymer Supports for Solid-Phase Organic Chemistry Reactors (Samantha Gooneratne)

2009-06-03 15:50: MRI measurements of chemical composition and temperature in trickle bed reactors (Fernando Abegao)

2009-06-03 16:10: Structure development during chocolate manufacture (Joel Taylor)

2009-06-10 15:30: Multidimensional Microscopy (Simon Schlachter)

2009-06-10 15:50: Lattice-Boltzmann modelling of biofilm growth and development (Thomas Pintelon)

2009-06-10 16:10: Chemical looping combustion (Tamryn Brown)

2009-10-14 14:00: Research Students’ Seminars (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-21 14:00: Research Students’ Seminars (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-28 14:00: Research Students’ Seminars (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-11-04 15:30: Cytotopic Pharmacology: Engineering Protein and Peptide Agents to Function at the Cell Surface - a Bench to Bedside Story (Dr Richard Smith, Dept of Nephrology and Transplantation Kings College, London)

2009-11-11 15:30: Instabilities in free surface flows (Dr Mark Simmons, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham)

2009-11-18 15:30: Marangoni flows in jets (Professor Richard Darton, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Oxford)

2009-11-25 15:30: Energy storage in acquifers (Mrs Clare Wildfire, Fulcrum consulting)

2010-01-20 15:30: Stripped naked: charge promiscuity in a redox enzyme as a means to biosensor design (Professor Lisa Hall, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2010-01-27 15:30: From Well-defined Macromonomers to Sterically-stabilised Latexes to Pickering Emulsions to Colloidosomes: Exerting Control over Multiple Length Scales (Professor Steve Armes, Dept of Chemistry, University of Sheffield)

2010-02-03 15:30: Colloidal flying carpets (Dr Erika Eiser, Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-10 15:30: The proteome: What is happening at the 'business end' of a cell? (Professor Phillip Wright, Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Sheffield)

2010-02-17 15:30: Shape Changing Particles (Dr Stuart Clarke, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-24 15:30: Trade-offs between model accuracy and numerical complexity: example of a 3D Interactive Real Time Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit simulation on a PC (Professor Florian De Vuyst, Ecole Centrale, Paris)

2010-03-03 15:30: Whither fossil fuels? Towards cleaner exploitation. (Professor Geoff Maitland, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College)

2010-10-13 15:30: Probing the mechanical properties of surfaces, polymer layers and cells with an atomic force microscope (Prof Paul Luckham, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College)

2010-10-20 15:30: Plastic processes for shaping particulates (Prof Stuart Blackburn, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham)

2010-10-27 15:30: Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over supported cobalt catalysts (Prof Edd Blekkan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

2010-11-10 15:30: Lucite International's new process for Methyl Methacrylate (Dr Ben Harris and Dr Darren Gobby, Lucite Ltd)

2010-11-17 15:30: Revisiting Soot Oxidation (Prof JoAnn Lighty, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah)

2010-11-24 15:30: Function without structure: the role of intrinsically disordered proteins in stress tolerance (Dr Alan Tunnacliffe, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-26 15:15: 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-02-02 15:15: 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-02-09 15:15: 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-02-23 14:00: Technical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response (Dr Ellen Williams – Chief Scientist BP, Dr Andy Leonard – Cambridge coordinator  BP)

2011-03-09 14:00: Inventing apparatus and processes (Professor Malcolm Mackley, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-04 14:40: 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2011 (First year PhD students)

2011-05-11 14:15: 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2011 (First year PhD students)

2011-05-18 14:15: 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2011 (First year PhD students)

2011-06-09 09:00: 1st Year PhD student Seminars 2011 (First year PhD students)

2011-10-26 14:00: The Complexity, Modularity and Evolution of Self-Assembling Structures (Dr Sebastian Ahnert, Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-11-02 14:00: Challenges for stem cell bioprocessing - scale-up or scale-out? (Prof. Christopher Hewitt, Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University)

2011-11-09 14:00: Predicting structure and dynamics in molecular crystals: towards computation-led characterisation and design of materials (Dr Graeme Day, Chemistry Department)

2011-11-23 14:00: Influence of particle shape on extrusion processes (Prof. Peter Kleinebudde, University of Dusseldorf, Germany)

2011-12-07 14:00: Liposomal delivery of vaccines - formulation engineering to manipulate immune responses (Prof. Yvonne Perrie, Aston University)

2012-01-25 14:00: 2nd Year Posters and Presentations (2nd Year research students)

2012-02-01 14:00: 2nd Year Posters and Presentations (2nd Year research students)

2012-02-08 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher –  Max-Planck-Institute, Magdeburg)

2012-02-08 15:00: 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters (2nd year PhD students)

2012-02-15 14:00: 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters (2nd year PhD students)

2012-02-22 14:00: Quo vadis adsorption technology? -- An overview about future trends (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Bathen - Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen)

2012-02-29 14:00: Impact response of polymer-metal laminates (Dr Graham McShane –  CUED, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-07 14:00: This seminar has been cancelled (Prof. Rhodri Williams – School of Engineering, University of Swansea)

2012-05-02 13:50: 1st year PhD student presentations (1st year PhD students)

2012-05-09 13:50: 1st year PhD student presentations (1st year PhD students)

2012-05-16 13:50: 1st year PhD student presentations (1st year PhD students)

2012-05-23 13:50: 1st year PhD student presentations (1st year PhD students)

2012-05-30 13:50: 1st year PhD student presentations (1st year PhD students)

2012-10-17 14:00: Transformation of carbonaceous materials in the oil industry (Alejandro Molina Ochoa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia	)

2012-10-31 14:00: Non-thermal effects of terahertz radiation on gene expression in mouse stem cells  (Dr Boian Alexandrov, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

2012-11-21 14:00: Scalar dissipation rate in an unsteady turbulent jet (Dr Nikolaos Soulopoulos, Imperial College, London)

2012-12-05 14:00: From structure to stomach; the use of thermal imaging methods to characterise pharmaceutical dosage forms (Prof Duncan Craig, School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia)

2013-02-13 14:00: Developments in meso reactor technology (Prof. Adam Harvey, University of Newcastle)

2013-03-06 14:00: Analysis of Biochemical Networks in Bioinformatics (Dr Sophia Tsoka, King’s College London)

2013-03-13 14:00: An overview of current carbon capture and storage options (Chris Hodrien, Timmins CCS Ltd.)

2013-10-23 14:00: Accurate CO2-CH4 Dispersion Measurements in Sandstones for Enhanced Gas Recovery Simulations (Prof. Eric May, University of Western Australia, Chevron Chair in Gas Process Engineering)

2013-11-06 14:00: Fluid Flow and Fouling in Falling Film Evaporators  (Prof Ken Morison, University of Canterbury, NZ)

2014-02-05 14:00: Adsorption Processes on Metal- Organic Frameworks. A Combination of Experimental Techniques and Molecular Simulation (Dr David Fairen-Jimenez, Royal Society Research Fellow, CEB)

2014-03-12 14:00: From Surface Chemistry to Heterogeneous Catalysis (Dr Stephen Jenkins, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-15 14:00: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and therapeutic intervention (Dr Gabi Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Cambridge  )

2014-10-22 14:00: Exploring AI to Program and Network Chemical Reactor Systems: Towards Novel Molecular and Chemical Systems Discovery (Prof. Lee Cronin FRSE, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow)

2014-10-29 14:00: Particles and mixing in turbulent plumes and fountains (Prof. Andrew Woods, Director of BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, Cambridge  )

2014-11-05 14:00: Bio-inspired Hybrid Materials for Solar Fuel Synthesis (Dr Erwin Reisner, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge)

2014-11-12 14:00: Unsteady flow of yield stress materials (Dr Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

2014-11-19 14:00: Every Man's Fluid Mechanics (Dr Ian Wilson, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Cambridge  )

2014-11-26 14:00: LCA in waste and energy systems, biochemical processes and catalysis (Prof. Paola Lettieri, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London )

2014-12-03 14:00: Maxwell's Demon and the Nuclear Pore Complex (Dr Alan Lowe, Department of Biological Sciences, University College London)

2015-01-21 14:00: Reactors, reactors, everywhere: chemical engineering, chemical gardens, and the origin of life (Prof. Julyan Cartwright, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, University of Granada, Spain)

2015-01-28 14:00: The Hydrodynamics of Particulate Flow: a Multi-scale Approach (Prof. Raffaella Ocone FREng, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University)

2015-02-04 14:00: Industrial sustainability - a key manufacturing paradigm (Dr Dai Morgan, EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainabilty, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge)

2015-02-11 14:00: Particle-Laden Flows in Rotating Drums: The Silent Secrets (Prof. Peter Thomas, Fluid Dynamics Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Warwick)

2015-02-18 14:00: Some dynamics of brine and compressible vapour flows in permeable conduits (Prof. Herbert Huppert, FRS, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge  )

2015-02-25 14:00: Publishing in the Nature Group (Dr Enda Bergin, Associate Editor, Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, London)

2015-03-04 14:00: Transport-driven dynamics in bio-inspired systems (Dr Annette Taylor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield)

2015-03-11 14:00: Molecular choreography: Towards the engineering of antibody behaviour. (Dr Jonathan Phillips, Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Cambridge)

2015-04-29 14:45: 1st year seminars 2015, session 1  (First year PhD students)

2015-05-06 14:45: 1st year seminars 2015, session 2 (First year PhD students)

2015-05-13 14:45: 1st year seminars 2015, session 3 (First year PhD students)

2015-05-20 14:45: 1st year seminars 2015, session 4 (First year PhD students)

2015-05-27 14:45: 1st year seminars 2015, session 5 (First year PhD students)

2015-06-22 14:30: Development of Nanomaterials and Microscale Platforms for Optical and Electrochemical Biosensing (Dr. Steve Semancik, Bioprocess Measurements Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland  USA)

2015-10-14 14:00: Designing viscoelastic solutions to enhance oil recovery (Andrew Howe)

2015-11-04 14:00: Catalysis and Process integration (Laura Torrente Murciano)

2015-11-11 14:00: Biofunctionalised Nanotools for New Materials Design (Dr Ljiljana Fruk)

2015-11-18 14:00: Statistical physics of complex fluids - From metallic alloys to protein suspensions (Dr Alessio Zaccone)

2015-11-25 14:00: Towards a better understanding of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases using fluorescent techniques (Gabriele Kaminski Schierle)

2015-12-02 14:00: Spectroscopic imaging: new trends and emerging applications (Professor Sergei Kazarian)

2016-01-20 16:00: Molecular engineering for sustainable energy applications (Jacqueline M. Cole, Head of Molecular Engineering, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-27 14:00: Sustainability, Biomass and Catalyst Development: An Industrial Perspective (Dr Mike J Watson, Johnson Matthey)

2016-02-03 16:00: Soft X-ray Spectroscopies - New Perspectives for Soft Matter Research (Professor Sven L.M. Schroeder)

2016-02-10 16:00: Post-doc seminar: Supercritical Fluid Electrodeposition (Dr Charles Cummings, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)

2016-02-18 14:30: Intensified-Process Integration at All Scales: flow reactor networks and end-to-end intensified chemical plants (Prof. Volker Hessel, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2016-03-02 16:00: Developing a home test kit for the early diagnosis of psychiatric disorders  (Dr Jason Cooper / Dr Sureyya Ozcan)

2016-03-09 14:00: Optimal Design and Operation under Uncertainty: Application to Polymerization Processes (Prof. Alexander Mitsos, RWTH Aachen)

2016-04-22 16:00: Design and Synthesis of Catalytic Metal-Organic Framework Materials (Professor Omar Farha, Department of Chemistry, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University)

2016-04-27 16:00: Brain circuits that govern sleep and wakefulness (Professor William Wisden, Imperial College London)

2016-05-05 16:00: Ellipsoid Localisation Microscopy (Dr Eric Rees)

2016-05-12 16:00: Catalytic selective oxidation in biomass conversion (Professor Yanhui YANG, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

2016-08-03 16:00: Flow-induced aggregation and clogging in a microfluidic channel following a Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction (Professor Stefano Guido, Dip. Ing. Chimica dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università Federico II, Naples)

2016-10-26 16:00: Plasma Protein Purification System - plasma fractionation by affinity chromatography (Dr Patrick Gurgel, Head of R&D at ProMetic BioSciences Ltd)

2016-11-02 16:00: Nanoparticle based analysis of biomolecules, cells and tissue (Professor Duncan Graham, Centre for Molecular Nanometrology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde)

2016-11-30 16:00: Multi-scale analysis of low carbon energy systems (Dr Niall MacDowell, Imperial College London)

2017-01-25 16:00: Taking control of flowing dense suspensions: formulation, rheology and shear thickening (Dr Chris Ness, Maudslay-Butler Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)

2017-03-15 16:00: A short history of the microscope (Professor Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)

2017-04-05 16:00: Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage and Catalysis (Professor Randall Snurr, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University)

2017-04-26 14:00: First Year Student Talks (Speaker to be confirmed ())

2017-04-26 16:00: Design and Evolution of New Biocatalysts for Organic Synthesis (Professor Nicholas Turner, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester)

2017-05-03 14:00: First Year Student Talks (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-05-10 14:00: First Year Student Talks (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-05-10 16:00: Microfluidics, biomimetic channels, networks and self assembly  (Prof. Dr. Andreas Manz, KIST Europe Forschungsgesellschaft mbH)

2017-05-17 14:00: First Year Student Talks (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-05-24 14:00: First Year Student Talks (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-05-24 16:00: Statistical Mechanics of Self-Propelled Colloids: Phase Separation and Directed Assembly (Prof. Michael Cates FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-18 14:00: Active bacterial suspensions: from individual effort to team work (Prof. Eric Clement, University Pierre et Marie Curie)

2017-11-15 14:00: Strength development during consolidation in drying films (Alexander F. Routh  CEB and BP Institute)

2017-11-29 13:00: Climate change: an evidence-based assessment of the challenges and potential responses (Dr Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge)

2018-01-31 14:00: Probing microstructure in pharmaceutical solids using terahertz radiation (Prof. Axel Zeitler, CEB)

2018-02-21 14:00: The world is not flat: towards 3D cell biology and 3D devices (Dr. Róisín M. Owens, CEB)

2018-02-27 14:00: Part IIB Poster Presentations (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-03-06 14:00: Part IIB Poster Presentations (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-05-09 14:00: Taming the complexity of solution processing methods for metal hydride perovskites, the wunderkind of solar cell materials (Professor Paulette Clancy, Samuel W. and M. Diane Bodman Professor in Chemical Engineering, Cornell University )

2018-05-16 14:00: How physical and chemical forces shape flows on Earth: from submarine hydrothermal vents to the Fukushima nuclear cloud (Professor Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology)

2018-08-24 10:00: Scientific Writing: Deliberate practice makes you better (Prof. Gregory S. Patience, Polytechnique Montréal)

2018-10-31 14:00: Healthy eating:  Emulsion microstructure engineering for salt or sugar reduction (Professor Bettina Wolf, University of Birmingham, UK)

2018-11-28 14:00: Optimal design of catalytic reactors and structured catalysts (Professor Prof Hanssjörg Freund, CRT Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

2019-02-20 14:00: Bio-inspired Photonics: from nature to applications (Dr Silvia Vignolini ( Department of Chemistry))

2019-03-01 14:00: Biotechnology meets Breeding in Baker's Yeast (Professor Ed Louis, University of Leicester)

2019-05-08 14:00: Direct electricity production from photosynthetic microorganisms (Professor Chris Howe)

2019-06-25 13:40: Engineering living systems: from genetic circuits to microbial communities (Dr. Somenath Bakshi, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2019-06-26 09:00: Sustainable chemistry: the key to transforming societies (Dr Friedrich Barth, International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre)

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))

2020-01-20 14:00: Organic Bioelectronic Interfaces Based on Crystalline PEDOT:PSS Films, Microfibers, and Fibrillar Hydrogel (Professor Myung-Han Yoon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) )

2020-01-29 14:00: Professor Herbert Huppert FRS - title TBC (Professor Herbert Huppert FRS, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-19 14:00: Dr Nuno Reis - title TBC (Dr Nuno Reis, University of Bath)

2020-03-11 14:00: Dr Ewa Marek - title TBC (Dr Ewa Marek, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2020-04-29 14:00: Professor Liam Grover - title TBC (Professor Liam Grover, University of Birmingham)

2021-02-08 11:00: Smart reactors in the chemical industry: structured reactors in general and monolithic reactors in particular (Emeritus Professor Jacob A. Moulijn (TU Delft))

2021-02-09 16:00: Developmental-inspired Functional Musculoskeletal Engineering: Nature vs Nurture (Professor Jennifer Puetzer, Virginia Commonwealth University)

2021-02-10 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks at CEB: Marianne Ellis 'Cultured meat as a protein alternative' (Marianne Ellis, University of Bath)

2021-03-10 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks, Prof Yvonne Perrie: Designing delivery systems for mRNA vaccines (Professor Yvonne Perrie, University of Strathclyde)

2021-03-17 14:30: 'In Focus' CEB Seminar with Dr Chris Boyce: Characterizing and Structuring Multiphase Granular Flows (Columbia University)

2021-05-12 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks at CEB: Greening energy - a big engineering challenge, Angelo Amorelli, bp (Angelo Amorelli, bp)

2021-06-21 11:00: Reflections on Structured Catalysts and Reactors  (Freek Kapteijn, Catalysis Engineering-ChemE, Delft University of Technology)

2021-10-13 11:00: Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Professor Martin Green: How cheap can solar photovoltaics become? (Martin Green, University of New South Wales)

2021-10-27 16:00:  Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Henning Schwabe from BASF: The Green Transition as Process Systems Challenge (Henning Schwabe BASF)

2021-11-19 16:00: In Focus seminars at CEB: Eleni Stavrinidou Linköping University (Eleni Stavrinidou, Linköping University)

2021-11-29 16:00: Process Engineering seminar: Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion, Professor Joel Ager (Professor Joel Ager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & UC Berkeley)

2022-01-19 16:00:  Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Professor Dame Julia King (Baroness Brown of Cambridge): 'Net Zero is not enough' (Professor Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge)

2022-02-09 11:00: Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Professor Lynn Loo - Getting to net-zero: decarbonising at the exajoule and joule levels (Professor Lynn Loo, Princeton University and Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation)

2022-04-20 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Professor Susan Daniel: Regulation of the coronavirus fusion peptide interaction with the host membrane and its impact on viral infectivity (Professor Susan Daniel, Cornell University)

2022-05-04 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks with Professor Andy Woods: On decarbonising heating systems (Professor Andy Woods (BP Institute, Department of Earth Sciences))

2022-10-26 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks with Lorenzo Di Michele: Synthetic cells - microrobots with life-like behaviours (Professor Lorenzo Di Michele, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-03 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks with Professor Roland Clift: The role of chemical engineering in sustainable development (Professor Roland Clift, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey)

2022-11-23 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Constantin Coussios: Engineering Tomorrow's Cancer Therapies (Professor Constantin Coussios, Director of the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering)

2022-12-05 17:30: Multimedia lecture with director Davor Rostuhar (David Rostuhar, director)

2022-12-08 16:00: Bigger Picture Talks with Professor Chihaya Adachi: The past, present and future prospects of OLEDs (Professor Chihaya Adachi, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University)

2022-12-09 12:00: In Focus seminar with Sahika Inal: Organic Electronics for Disease Diagnostics (Sahika Inal, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST))

2023-01-18 16:00: Bigger Picture Talk with Prof. Alvaro Mata (Alvaro Mata, Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials, University of Nottingham)

2023-03-01 16:00: Bigger Picture Talk with Professor Paul Fennell (Paul Fennell, Imperial College London)

2023-03-15 16:00: Bigger Picture Talk with Dr Saied Dardour (Dr. Saied Dardour, energy economist, International Atomic Energy Agency)

2023-03-22 16:00: Bigger Picture Talk with Professor Maya Kaelberer (Maya Kaelberer, Assistant Professor Neurobiology)

2023-05-03 16:00: Bigger Picture Talk with Prof. Gregory Patience (Gregory Patience, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal)

2023-09-14 10:00: The Aesthetics of Microscopy (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-10-26 14:00: Applying Machine Learning for Characterizing Life-Cycle Based Toxicity Impacts (Kerstin von Borries - Technical University of Denmark)

2023-11-13 11:00: Quantifying the co-benefits and side-effects of Negative Emissions Technologies and Practices to advance their sustainable scale-up (Dr. Selene Cobo Gutiérrez ETH Zurich)

2024-11-13 13:30: Bigger Picture Talks @ CEB - Alcohols to Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mixture via Multifunctional Catalysis (Dr Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal, Director of Sustainable Development at the American Chemical Society)

2024-11-28 13:30: Chemical Looping Technology for Clean Energy and Chemical Conversion Systems – Commercialization Prospect   (L-S. Fan, Ohio State University)

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)