An Erudite Scholar is Recognized
An erudite scholar, Professor Mohammed Farid was recently awarded the prestigious President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Distinguished Scientist by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering...
Potential Chemical & Materials Engineers Tour Chemmat Labs
Chemical & Materials Engineering Department hosts Tamaki College Secondary School Chemmat hosted a group of 30 high school students (Year 11 and 12) and teachers from Tamaki College Secondary School on the 18th of October. The half day event started by...
Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Don Visits Chemat/UoA
Professor Krist visited the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering to widen out, and of course, he was not disappointed. From left to right: Prof Ashvin Thambyah, Prof Krist Gernaey, Dr Isuru Udugama, and Prof Brent Young. Krist is an avid coffee...
CHEMECA 2023
Chemical Engineering Conference (CHEMECA 2023), 1–3 October Chemmat in collaboration with IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineering) hosted CHEMECA 2023 at the Hilton, Auckland. The conference theme was “Leading the Transition into a Sustainable Future”...
A Digital-Twin Approach to Distillation Control Education
Article by Isuru A. Udugama, Michael A. Taube and Brent Young published in The Chemical Engineer...
CHEMMAT outing at the IChemE AGM
It was a successful outing at the IChemE AGM on the 17 May, which was held at Waikato University. Isaac Severinsen represented the department and presented his work on digital twin for the IChemE Postgraduate Researcher of the Year competition. Ramin Razmi...
Velocity Ideas challenge winner
Congratulations CHEMMAT PhD student, Gevargis Muramthookil Thomas, for winning the Social issues category of the Ideas challenge conducted by Velocity. Gevargis is under the supervision of Dr Filicia Wicaksana and Dr Shan Yi. The IDEAS Challenge was organised by...
Dilieka Weerakoon
Dilieka is studying for a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering and is the recipient of a doctoral scholarship awarded by Fonterra Cooperative Limited. Dilieka previously completed a Bachelor of Science at Uva Wellassa University in Sri Lanka, and a Masters in...
Bryan Li
Bryan completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Science Conjoint and is now involved in research that leads to global decarbonisation. Bryan came to the University from China to study a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Science Conjoint,...
CHEMMAT IChemE event
On the evening of Thursday, 20 April 2023 CHEMMAT held an event for the Auckland chapter of IChemE. Feedback has been positive, with the members enjoying the lab tours and presentations from staff about the research that goes in in the Department. We had a good...
Summer research scholarship winner
Last summer, Kathy Pu performed her summer research scholarship under supervision of CHEMMAT’s Dr Vonne van Heeswijk. Her research project was focused on characterising the microstructure of ovine facet joint cartilage. A poster of this research was exhibited...
New Book – “A Real-Time Approach to Distillation Process Control”
CHEMMAT’s Professor Brent Young, guest lecturer Michael Taube, and alumnus Dr Isuru Udugama have recently had a text book published by Wiley entitled “A Real-time Approach to Distillation Control”. Written substantially over lock down, “A Real-Time Approach to...
Staff
Photo: CHEMMAT’s Professor Mohammed Farid at his Exaugural Lecture on Thursday, 17 November Professor Mohammed Farid Congratulations Mohammed on an amazing career and we wish you all the best for your retirement! Staff Awards – 2022 On 9th...
Events
Postgraduate Symposium 2022 Our Postgraduate Symposium 2022 was held on 30 August 2022. It was well attended and we were fortunate to have two alumni, Sinemobong Essien and Eldon Tate as guest speakers. Winners for best oral presentation, poster, microscopy image,...