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Professor Sai Gu
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Biography
Professor Sai Gu joined the University of Surrey as Head of The Department of Chemical and Process Engineering in 2015 after holding various academic posts at Aston University, University of Southampton and Cranfield University. He obtained a PhD in Material Modelling from the University of Nottingham and also did his post-doc research at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Gu has an international reputation for clean energy and material research, currently leading a number of EPSRC-funded projects - worth around £2.5 million - focused on the development of advanced bio-energy and and carbon capture technologies. He has a long track-record of coordinating large collaborative projects with international partners and has successfully won over £10 million in grants from EPSRC, EU, Innovate UK and industry.
Dr Franjo Cecelja
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Dr Franjo Cecelja obtained his Dipl. Eng. degree in Aerospace Technology from Technical from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, M.Sc degree from Cranfield Institute of Technology in Control & Signal Processing and Ph.D from Brunel University, UK, in Optical Sensors for High Frequency, Low Intensity Electric Fields in 1997.
He worked as a postgraduate research fellow at the University of Surrey, U.K., investigating design and application of optical sensors for electric and magnetic field measurements in biological tissues since 1992. This work continued at Brunel University, U.K., until 2001 when he was appointed a lecturer in Manufacturing and Information Systems at Brunel University. In 2006 he moved to the University of Surrey where the work in Manufacturing and Information Systems expanded to the area of Process Systems Engineering.
He has expertise in Optical Sensors and Measurement, Data Processing, Optimisation and Decision Making and Computer Modelling. Dr Franjo Cecelja has worked closely with the UK and international companies and universities and research institutions which resulted in more than 15 funded research projects. He is currently principal investigator on several funded projects: i) RENESENG II, Horison 2020 RISE project dedicated to networking in the area of biorefining, ii) eSymbiosis FP7 (Life+) focusing on Development of knowledge-based web services to promote and advance Industrial Symbiosis in Europe, and iii) RENESENG FP7 Marie Curie LTN project focusing on Renewable Energy Systems Engineering, iv) Qatar Foundation (QNRF) project focusing on Development of Low Cost Forward Osmosis Desalination: Application in Agricultural Irrigation, v) SETsquared ICURe project focusing on eSymbiosis: market search and commercialisation plan , vi) SETsquared ICURe project focusing on Modified Osmosis: market search and commercialisation plan, among other several projects.
Dr Bahman Amini Horri
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
Biography
Dr Bahman Horri is a Senior Lecturer of Chemical Engineering and the leader of the MSc programmes (Batteries and Fuel Cells, Petroleum refining, and Process Systems) at the University of Surrey. He is also an adjunct research fellow at Monash University. He coordinates the research studies in green hydrogen, solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysers (SOFCs/SOECs), and energy materials, holding 5 US/European patents, 50+ papers in top-tiered journals, five book chapters, and 30+ presentations in national and international conferences (most of them as an invited speaker). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in 2012 (Australia). The national and international communities have recognised his research in hydrogen and fuel cell with multiple awards, including the "Leverhulme Trust Fellowship Award" (2021), IAAM Lecture Award (2020, Sweden), Innovation Award in Emerging Technologies (2018, UK), Postgraduate Publication Award (2012, Australia), FEIPRS award (2009, Australia), MGS Award (2008, Australia). He was appointed as a lecturer at Monash University in 2013 and then joined the University of Surrey in 2016. Dr Horri has successfully supervised 4 PhD and 16 MSc projects, and he is presently supervising 5 PhD students and 2 postdoctoral researchers as the principal supervisor. Currently, he is the PI of three projects in energy and sustainable chemical technologies sponsored by EPSRC, Innovate-UK, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. So far, he has secured over £1M in different competitive research grants, mainly as the PI. With multidisciplinary research and engineering background dedicated to fuel cells and material science, he is a member of IChemE with both CEng and CSci qualifications. He is also a member of the scientific board of H2FC-Supergen (the hydrogen and fuel cell hub, UK), a member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), an associate editor of Frontiers, a guest editor of Energies, the editorial board of "The American Journal of Materials Science and Engineering", and Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK FHEA).
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Professor Prashant Kumar
Associate Dean (International), Professor and Chair in Air Quality and Health; Founding Director, Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE)
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Professor Prashant Kumar is Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Chair in Air Quality and Health and the founding Director of the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the founder of successfully running Guildford Living Lab, head of the GCARE’s Air Quality Laboratory, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering at the Trinity College Dublin in Ireland since March 2018, and a Guest Professor at the Southeast University China since June 2021. He was the Deputy Director of Research for the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering during 2018-2021.
He received his PhD (Engineering) from the University of Cambridge after winning a Cambridge-Nehru Scholarship and an Overseas Research Scholarship Award, and earned his MTech (Environmental Engineering & Management) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi with CGPA 9.8/10 and rank 1. Prior to his PhD, he worked at a research institute and in the industrial sector for about 8 years. After his PhD, he joined the University of Surrey as Lecturer (2009-2012) and subsequently worked as Senior Lecturer (2012-2015), Reader (2015-2017) and Professor (2017-). He was awarded the University of Surrey's Vice-Chancellors Award for his outstanding research in 2017.
His fundamental and application-oriented cross-disciplinary research is focused on the interfaces of clean air engineering/science, human health and smart/sustainable living in cities/megacities. His research builds an understanding of the formation and emission of particles, both from vehicle exhausts and non-vehicular sources. He investigates their contribution to pollution, especially in megacity contexts. He is developing approaches to low-cost sensing and contributing to the development of exposure control technology and guidelines for policymakers to curtail pollution exposure in cities, with associated health benefits.
His current research projects are focused on broad multidisciplinary areas of air pollution monitoring/modelling, low-cost sensing, nature-based solutions, climate change mitigation and developing innovative technological and passive (e.g. green infrastructure) solutions for air pollution exposure control for both developing and developed world. He is currently the lead PI on the UKRI (EPRC, NERC, AHRC) funded RECLAIM Network Plus.
A prolific author with about 300 articles in top-ranked journals (h-index 61; i10-index 222; citations >15,000), his research has secured over £10.5 million of individual funding from projects total worth over £30M, funded by the RCUK (e.g, EPSRC, ESRC, NERC, AHRC, MRC, HEFCE, British Council, Innovate UK, Research England, GCRF), industry, international funding bodies (e.g., European Commission, Qatar National Research Foundation, Commonwealth Commission, FAPESP) and charities (e.g. Ove Arup Foundation, RSA, Impact on Urban Health, Global Action Plan). He has developed a network of collaborators across four continents, serving on editorial boards of several international journals (e.g. Scientific Reports, Science of the Total Environment) and scientific evaluation panels of numerous funding agencies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the air quality section of the ‘Atmosphere’ journal (since July 2020) and founding Speciality Chief Editor of the ‘Climate Change & Cities’ section of Frontiers in Environmental Science journal.
He serves editorial board of numerous journals, advises local/international bodies on air pollution, and reviews proposals for many funding agencies worldwide. His research has featured in well-read media outlets such as the BBC and The Times
He is advising local/national/international agencies on air pollution and urban nexus and his research has featured in well-read media outlets such as the BBC and The Times. Further details on his work can be found here.
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- Dr Pierre Jop
- Dr.E. Gouillart.
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- Ferrán Arrufat García.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
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- Prof Didier Bouvard
- Dr Pierre Lhuissier
- Dr David Jauffres
- Dr Pierre Jop
- Dr.E. Gouillart.
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
- Prof Denis Flick
- Dr Paul Menut
- Dr Artemio Plana-Fattori.
TU Graz - Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Prof Johannes G. Khinast
- Dr Stefan Radl
- Dr Thomas Forgber.
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In 2020, 96 per cent of Surrey undergraduates are in work or further education.*
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Our consistently high placing in the HESA figures is a result of our relentless focus on graduate employability and the success of our Professional Training placements, which we pioneered 60 years ago and in which we continue to be a world leader today.
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In 2013/14 the University of Surrey generated more than £1.5 billion for the UK economy, with over £1.1 billion of that in the county of Surrey.
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- Miguel Ángel Celigueta Jordana
- Ferrán Arrufat García.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
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- Dr Artemio Plana-Fattori.
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Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (EADS) is a division of Airbus, a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. They generate revenues of €2.2 billion and employ a workforce of about 9,100.
Airbus Central R&T (ACRT) is the corporate research centre of Airbus with operations in France, Germany, Spain, UK, Singapore and Russia. Its overall workforce is more than 7,000 researchers. The ACRT site in Munich, belongs legally to Airbus Defence and Space and employs about 150 people in research and innovation.
Within ACRT, the Materials X department provides research and development facilities for advanced materials and new process technologies from elementary parts to optimised hybrid structures, in an integrated network within Airbus and in close co-operation with suppliers, universities and other research institutes. Within this team the necessary competencies for development and evaluation of protective coatings is available with laboratories for environmental simulation and coating deposition facilities.
BASF, a world’s leading chemical company, has a long tradition in cooperative research and training, which they consider to be crucial for their success. The Process Engineering Department, with about 130 engineers and 120 technicians, covers all particle technology unit operations in the chemical industry as well as CFD and DEM simulations. Numerous PhD students are being co-supervised in cooperation with universities across Europe.
The Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l’Enginyeria (CIMNE) is a research organisation in Barcelona, Spain, which was created in 1987 as a consortium between the Catalan Government and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). It is an autonomous RTD centre focusing in promoting and fostering advances in the development and application of numerical methods and computational techniques for the solution of engineering problems in an international context.
They employ over 200 scientists and engineers from different technical fields and nationalities. In 2005, they started their international expansion and since then have created the following international branches:
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Their headquarters are located at the heart of the UPC in Barcelona. They also have premises at different buildings in several campuses of the UPC and have offices in Madrid, Terrassa and Ibiza.
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Our beneficiaries have expertise in chemical and process engineering, aerospace, civil engineering, materials science, fine and speciality chemicals, pharmaceutical engineering, food science, computational mechanics and software development, in addition to five partner organisations. We will run 15 individual research projects to address the experimental and modelling challenges in analysing thermomechanical behaviour of granular materials.
We will take a systematic approach to examine the effects of temperature on mechanical properties, micromechanics, flow, compaction and mechanical properties, to enhance our understanding of the thermal performance of granular materials and broaden their industrial applications. We will also develop robust heat generation and transfer models for granular materials and use in situ nano-computed tomography to understand the microscopic evolution of a granular material at high temperatures, and explore the application of granular materials in emerging areas, such as dry powder coating in aerospace applications and additive manufacturing.
Using granular materials
Granular materials, such as soils, agricultural seeds, metallic and ceramic powders, and pharmaceutical powders, are common in nature and have many industrial applications. They possess unique physical properties and a complicated flow behaviour. We aim to improve our understanding of the thermomechanical behaviour of granular materials. In particular, we aim to answer the following research questions:
- How does temperature increase within granular materials without the application of external heating sources?
- How does temperature affect the physical properties of granular materials?
- How can the thermomechanical properties of granular materials be effectively utilised in various applications, e.g. additive manufacturing, powder coating, sintering and catalysis?
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