1. The Department of Chemical Engineering… The best people
The best teaching
The best research
The best infrastructure
>>>>> Making an impact on chemical engineering!

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

3. The Best Relationships
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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 3 3

4. Profile 4-year MEng degree Academic staff: 40; Support Staff :43
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
4-year MEng degree
Academic staff: 40; Support Staff :43
Undergraduate intake:
---> 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

5. College Leadership
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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 Imperial’s 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 College’s 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.

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

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

8. The Best People: New Academic Staff 14–15
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 für Kohlenforschung.
PhD Chemistry, UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil.
Research into the catalytic valorisation of lignin and cellulose by unconventional approaches, such as catalytic transfer hydrogenation, mechanocatalysis and solvent design.

9. The Best People: New Academic Staff 14–15
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.

10. Staff The Best People: Medals, Awards and Prizes
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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 President’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher
Anusha Sri-Pathmanathan President’s Medal for Research Support Excellence
Professor Constantinos Pantelides President’s Medal for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Dr Christos Markides President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr Andreas Kogelbauer President’s Award for Excellence in Pastoral Care

11. Medals, Awards and Prizes
The Best People:
Medals, Awards and Prizes
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Postgraduates
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.
Undergraduates
August 2014: Yehia Amar and Robert Hughes awarded EDF/Institut de France European foundation awards for tomorrow’s energies.
March2015: Hannah Moran awarded a Salters’ Graduate Prize

12. The Best People: PhD Students
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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!
Year
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Applications Received
173
148
254
285
305
Starting PhDs
 45
 37
 49
 58
 55
Scholarship Scheme Introduced

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

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

15. The Best Research:
Research Highlights

16. The Best Research:
Research Highlights

17. New Project Highlights
The Best Research:
New Project Highlights
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
£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.

18. New Project Highlights
The Best Research:
New Project Highlights
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Academic and industry collaboration studying biomass in a UK context.
Imperial College London’s new Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group has joined the Energy Technologies Institute’s (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.

19. New Project Highlights
The Best Research:
New Project Highlights
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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.

21. The Best Research:
Income
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22. Department of Chemical Engineering
International - QS World Subject Rankings 2015
Global Rankings
– 8th
– 9th
– 3rd
– 6th
– 6th

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

24. The Best Research: Sponsors Sponsors over £100k per annum: ABB BBSRC
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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

25. 2015 4th year MEng final exam champagne party
The Best People:
The Best Teaching
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
2015 4th year MEng final exam champagne party

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