Professor Jonathan Seville

Biography

Professor Jonathan Seville is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Universities of Cambridge and Surrey and has held visiting appointments at the University of British Columbia and the Technical University of Denmark. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Before moving to Surrey, he was Dean of Engineering at the University of Warwick and for 10 years the head of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, where he established the UK’s first research centre in Formulation Engineering (awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2011) and co-founded the Positron Imaging Centre, which has pioneered the use of positron-emitting radioactive tracers in engineering studies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Powder Technology, the leading international journal for the study of granular materials.

Throughout his career, Jonathan has championed the application of chemical engineering to the design and manufacture of products for the pharmaceutical, home care and fast-moving consumer goods industries, working with the UK Research Councils, Unilever Research, Procter & Gamble, Rhône-Poulenc, Astra Zeneca, BP, Weetabix, United Biscuits, Huntsman Tioxide, Merck Sharp and Dohme, GSK, Pfizer, Siemens and GEA Pharma Systems. He is also active in energy-related projects, including biomass conversion and solar power.