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The Department of Chemical Engineering The best people The best teaching The best research The best infrastructure >>>>> Making an impact on chemical engineering! DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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Prof. Andrew Livingston Head of Department Prof. Nilay Shah Director of Research Prof. Nina Thornhill Director of Undergraduate Studies Prof. Yun Xu Director of Postgraduate Studies Anusha Sri-Pathmanathan Departmental Operations Manager Prof. Erich Mller Director of Resources DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Overview

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3 MISSION We will deliver world-leading research, education and leadership in chemical engineering and its application to industry and healthcare. RELATIONSHIPS We welcome and enjoy our relationships with partners including: Postgraduate (MSc and PhD) programmes Research programmes Fellowships and Professorships Visitors and staff exchanges Recruitment/Development for our graduates The Best Relationships DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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4-year MEng degree Academic staff: 40; Support Staff :43 Undergraduate intake: 125-135 ---> MEng Population 500 Postgraduate Taught 80 MSc Postgraduate Research 220 PhD 90 PostDocs 25-30 different nationalities Female population: 30% on average Annual Turnover - 33 million DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Profile

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College Leadership Previous role of Rector split into President and Provost roles. September 2014: Professor Alice Gast appointed President succeeding Sir Keith O'Nions FRS President has focus on outward facing activities and development The Provost (Professor James Stirling) has responsibility for delivering and enhancing Imperials core academic mission - the pursuit of excellence in education, research and translation. Professor Stirling reports directly to the President; both the President and Provost oversee the Colleges strategic direction. Professor Alice Gast, President, Imperial College London. An internationally renowned scholar in the field of chemical engineering, Professor Gast was formerly President of Lehigh University and Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at MIT. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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The Best People Undergraduates DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 26 Nationalities: 46 UK, 15 other EU; 64 overseas for 125 total

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The National Student Survey 2014 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best People: The Best Teaching

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The Best People: New Academic Staff 1415 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Dr Chris Tighe (Lecturer) December 2014 Senior Project Leader, TWI, Cambridge. Post-doc Chemistry, UCL. PhD Chemical Engineering, Cambridge. Chemical Engineer, BP. MEng Chemical Engineering, UMIST. Research into high pressure industrial systems. Dr Roberto Rinaldi (Senior Lecturer) April 2015 Post-doc & Junior Group Leader, Max-Planck- Institut fr Kohlenforschung. PhD Chemistry, UNICAMP, So Paulo, Brazil. Research into the catalytic valorisation of lignin and cellulose by unconventional approaches, such as catalytic transfer hydrogenation, mechanocatalysis and solvent design.

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The Best People: New Academic Staff 1415 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Dr Ronny Pini (Lecturer, QCCSRC) January 2015 Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines (CO), USA Post-doc, Stanford University (CA) and ETH Zurich. PhD Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich Research on the physics of fluid flow and phase- equilibria in rocks and other porous media. Dr Bradley Ladewig (Senior Lecturer) July 2015 Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia. Post-doc, CNRS, France and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at The University of Queensland, Australia. PhD Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Queensland, Australia. Research around the development of novel materials and membranes, and their application in energy and environmental related technologies.

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The Best People: Medals, Awards and Prizes DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Staff Dec 2014: Professor Serafim Kalliadasis elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Jan 2015: Professor Stephen Richardson, Associate Provost and former HoD awarded a CBE. Jan 2015: Professor Paul Luckham awarded 2015 Rideal Medal. March 2015: Members of staff awarded IChemE medals and awards: Dr Paul Fennell (Ambassador Prize) Dr Niall MacDowell (Nicklin Medal) Dr Camille Petit (Warner Medal) Professor Stephen Richardson (Arnold Greene Medal) Alumni: Dr Ken Morison (Council Medal) and Professor Ignacio Grossmann (Sargent Medal) May 2015: Professor Sergei Kazarian awarded RSC Sir George Stokes Award. May 2015: Dr Clemens Brechtelsbauer elected Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy June 2015: President's Awards for Excellence: Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot Presidents Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher Anusha Sri-Pathmanathan Presidents Medal for Research Support Excellence Professor Constantinos Pantelides Presidents Medal for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Dr Christos Markides Presidents Award for Excellence in Teaching Dr Andreas Kogelbauer Presidents Award for Excellence in Pastoral Care

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The Best People: Medals, Awards and Prizes DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING August 2014: Yehia Amar and Robert Hughes awarded EDF/Institut de France European foundation awards for tomorrows energies. March2015: Hannah Moran awarded a Salters Graduate Prize Feb 2015: Xinyan Huang wins Qatar Petroleum Award for research on Clean Fossil Fuels. May 2015: Ibrahim Daher wins Qatar Energy R&D ORYX GTL Student Award for Post Graduate Education. May 2015: Clementine Chambon awarded runner-up Althea-Imperial prize for female entrepreneurs. June 2015: Clementine Chambon awarded Echoing Green Fellowship. Postgraduates Undergraduates

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We want to be able to take the best students to study at Imperial, irrespective of their ability to pay Our objective is to be able to fully fund from Departmental resources >25% of all PhD students in the Department Balance of students will be supported on fully-sponsor funded projects We are growing a Chemical Engineering Department Endowment fund (currently at 9 million) We are directing a significant fraction of available funds (has reached 1million in 2015) to PhD studentships for the very best students Applications have gone up by 100% in four years, quality up want more! DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best People: PhD Students Year20102011201220132014 Applications Received 173148254285305 Starting PhDs 45 37 49 58 55 Scholarship Scheme Introduced

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best People: PhD Students Generous donation in May 2015 from alumna Mrs Marit Mohn (Chem Eng 1973) to support PhD studentship scheme.

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We are engaged in a programme of continual upgrade and renewal of the physical infrastructure funded jointly by College/Department 2000-2009: No major investments 2009-2011: Pilot plant and laboratories, 9M 2011-2012: Entrance from walkway and cladding on ACE building, 4M 2012-2013: Upgrade of Bone Basement, 1.5M 2013-2015: Bone Level 3 Lab (2.3M), Bone Roof Extension (7.5M) 2014-2015: RDH Refurbishment (4.0M) 2015 onwards: Complete RHD Refurbishment, Imperial West Membrane Fabrication Lab (BP- ICAM) QCCSRC Micro Scanner Lab (QCCSRC ) DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best Infrastructure

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The Best Research: Research Highlights

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The Best Research: Research Highlights

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best Research: New Project Highlights 1.5M to work on next generation hybrid solar panel technology to generate both heat and electrical power. EPSRC Funding. Collaboration with Imperial's Dyson School of Design Engineering and the departments of Physics and Chemical Engineering working with collaborators from the University of Glasgow.

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best Research: New Project Highlights Academic and industry collaboration studying biomass in a UK context. Imperial College Londons new Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group has joined the Energy Technologies Institutes (ETI) Techno-Economic Assessment of Biomass Pre- processing project. The project is a collaboration of industrial and academic partners led by E4Tech, commissioned and funded by the ETI.

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best Research: New Project Highlights SynFabFun collaboration: Imperial College London and the Universities of Bath, Manchester and Newcastle. Imperial will lead 1.5 million of a 4.5 million research initiative to investigate the use of new types of polymers and ceramics for use in membrane technology. EPSRC funded.

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best Research: Income

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Department of Chemical Engineering International - QS World Subject Rankings 2015 Global Rankings 2010-11 8 th 2011-12 9 th 2012-13 3 rd 2013-14 6 th 2014-15 6 th

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Department of Chemical Engineering Strategic Advisory Board Jos Romo de Sousa Invited Professor, Porto University Edward Daniels Executive Vice President Upstream International, Commercial and New Business Development, Shell UK Desmond King President, Chevron Oronite Company Andrew Livingston Geoff Maitland Vik Bansal Quantitative Portfolio Manager, Tudor Capital Europe Marit Mohn Ian Shott Managing Partner, Shott Trinova Lukas Utiger CEO, DSM Pharmaceutical Products Philip Varley Bill Wakeham Judith Hackitt Chair, Health and Safety Executive All alumni or former employees of the Department

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Sponsors over 100k per annum: ABB BBSRC BP International Limited Carbon Clean Solutions Commission of European Communities ConocoPhillips EPSRC Evonik Membrane Extraction Technology Limited Glaxosmithkline National Nuclear Laboratory Novartis Petronas Pfizer Ltd Qatar Petroleum Shell International Ltd Statoil UNICAT Ltd DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best Research: Sponsors

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Best People: The Best Teaching 2015 4 th year MEng final exam champagne party

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Thank you for your support!

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