December 2020   This is our fourth and final Quarterly Chemmat Knit issue for the year. There’s quite a lot to report and update and I encourage you to please get in touch with us to find out more about any of the items of interest. Please also forward this newsletter to your fellow alumni friends….

The Academic Career Advancement Programme (ACAP) gives mid-phase doctoral candidates a head-start in their academic future. The ACAP (formally DALI) presents a series of regular seminars over two semesters, with a focus on careers in academia, teaching, and research. The cost of this one-year programme is funded by Academic Career Exploration Award (ACEA), which is…

Congratulations Amanda and Matt on the recent arrival of your baby boy, Nathan Edward, in July.

To celebrate Recycling Week, Vanessa Young, Strategic Engagement Manager from The MacDiarmid Institute, explains the essential role of nano-recycling in making the most of the tiny-scale but potentially harmful waste from batteries, circuit boards and more. For most of us recycling means jars, bottles, tins (and the sprint to get the bin out as the…

Each year the department holds a Research Showcase where PhD students have the opportunity to disseminate their research, and showcase the breadth of research across all areas of chemical and materials engineering.  The showcase is a mixture of oral and poster presentations, and the winning presentation in the chemical engineering category is nominated for the…

Photo: Chemmat’s PhD candidate, Syeda Wishal Bokhari   U21’s Graduate Collaborative Research Awards (GCRA) are designed to be flexible and encourage doctoral candidates, with the support of their supervisors/advisors, to think innovatively about how their research could benefit from engagement with other members of the U21 network. Syeda Wishal Bokhari, a PhD student in Prof Wei…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbbpApkwfs&list=PL4HzhwJDIG9KJB5rxR3HHHXmHiopAbfW1 The value of membership and Chartered status In their first video of their ‘In Conversation’ series, IChemE President, Stephen Richardson and Deputy President, Jane Cutler (Chemmat ca. 1982), talk about how they became involved with IChemE, and why they wanted to stand for election for the Board of Trustees, as well as their thoughts…

From Left: Chemmat’s Dr Steve Matthews, Dr Amar Auckaili   Congratulations to Chemmat’s Dr Steve Matthews and Dr Amar Auckaili who both won a Students’ Choice Top Teacher Award each this year. These were announced by our Acting Dean, Prof Gerard Rowe on Friday, 11 December. Each year 15 top teachers in the entire faculty…

About 70 students and staff gathered for dinner at the Bodrum Newmarket restaurant on the evening of Thursday, 9 December. It was a fun and relaxing night, and it was a nice treat for our Postgraduate students who have, like everyone, found 2020 very challenging. We also celebrated Professor Mohammed Farid’s 71st birthday with a…

Laboratory-grown meat has been stuck in the experimental stage. For it to become a commercially viable industry, tissue needs to be grown efficiently at scale. When Laura Domigan started her research group at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2015, she hoped to continue her work developing protocols for growing cell-based meat in the…