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Before becoming Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at The University
of Manchester Professor Perkins was Principal of the Faculty of Engineering and Courtaulds Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial
College London. His academic career spans periods at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Sydney as well as Imperial
College. He has industrial experience with Shell and with ICI, in the UK and in Australia, and has acted as a consultant for a number
of companies around the world. His research interests cover a number of facets of process systems, including process design, process
control and process modelling and dynamic simulation. He is the author of around 200 papers, and he has supervised more than 30 successful
PhD candidates. Professor Perkins is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the City and Guilds of London Institute, the Institution
of Chemical Engineers and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Mathematician and
Chartered Scientist.
Professor Stephen Richardson is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of Department in the
Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. Professor Richardson was educated at Imperial College. After working as
a Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge, he was appointed as a Lecturer at Imperial College in 1978 and then promoted through
the ranks to Professor in 1994. His principal research interest is safety, specifically the depressurisation of vessels and pipelines,
particularly those associated with oil and gas production, and development of the computer program BLOWDOWN, which has since been used
in the design of well over 200 installations. In 1996, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy Engineering.
Professor David Shallcross is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Professor Shallcross is also Chair of the Institution of Chemical Engineer's (IChemE) Education
Subject Group and a Member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering's Working Party on Education. In 2006 he was awarded IChemE's
Frank Morton Medal recognizing excellence and innovation in chemical engineering education. He has published several books including
Handbook of Psychrometric Charts and Physical Property Data Book as well as books written for secondary school mathematics educators.
David has been active for over ten years promoting the engineering profession in the primary and secondary school mathematics educator
community, writing books and articles and presenting professional development workshops to mathematics educators in several countries.
He is a founding member of the International Committee for Ion Exchange. His research interests include chemical engineering education,
ion exchange processes and psychrometry of non-conventional systems.
Professor Marc Assael is currently Professor of Thermophysical Properties in the Chemical Engineering
Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published more than 200 papers, 17 chapters and four books. Professor
Assael is a national delegate in many committees in the EU, including the European Federation of Chemical Engineering's Working Party
on Education, and in many international scientific organizations.
Professor Ian Cameron is Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland.
He originally joined the CSR Group, graduated in chemical engineering from the University of New South Wales and worked for over nine
years in various industries including sugar, building materials and industrial chemicals. He returned to academic life via a masters
degree at the University of Washington and a PhD at Imperial College London. Following three years as a full-time UNIDO Process Engineering
Consultant he joined the University of Queensland, where he has interests in process systems engineering, risk management and multiscale
modelling in particle technology. He is the co-author of three books. He has been involved in many engineering education innovations.
He is a recipient of the Australian Award for University Teaching in the Physical Sciences and also the 2003 Australian Prime Minister's
Award for University Teacher of the year. He also received with colleagues an AAUT award for curriculum innovation in 2005. He is one
of four inaugural Senior Fellows of the Carrick Institute for 2006, Australia's peak body in higher education.
Professor John Chen has been a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland
since 1996, and Head of Department 1996 2003. After obtaining his BE degree from the University of Auckland, he worked for three years
as a Development Engineer at New Zealand Aluminium Smelters. He then returned to Auckland and completed a PhD in 1979. He was a Lecturer
in mechanical engineering at the University of Hong Kong before returning to Auckland in 1984. His research interests include the modelling
of the aluminium smelting process covering multi-phase flow, heat and mass transfer, treatment of molten metal, process control in the
potrooms, phasechange materials, and bio-fuels.
Professor Duncan Fraser is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He started there as a Senior Lecturer in 1979, after a three-year stint in oil refining. He received
both his BSc(Eng)(Cem Eng) and his PhD degrees from UCT. He has taught most of the core courses in the chemical engineering curriculum
and also done a lot of work on improving teaching and learning, and on curriculum development. His research interests are in engineering
education (student learning, student success) and in process synthesis (pinch technology, mass exchanger network synthesis).
Professor Manfred Hampe graduated from Technische Universitau t Clausthal in 1976 and received his
PhD from Technische Universitaut Muunchen in 1980. He worked as a Process Engineer in the central research division of Bayer AG in Leverkusen
before he became Full Professor of Thermal Process Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Technische Universitau
t Darmstadt in 1995. His research interests are in the field of mass transfer. He is Chairman of the Working Party on Education in Chemical
and Process Engineering of the VDI-Society for Chemical and Process Engineering and member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering's
Working Party on Education. In the CLUSTER consortium of eleven European research universities he is the chairman of the CLUSTER Department
of Mechanical Engineering. He has been appointed as one of the 15 German Bologna-promoters by the European Union. At his university he
is the coordinator for Fulbright scholarships.
Professor Robert Hesketh is a Professor and Chairperson of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University.
He received his BS in 1982 from the University of Illinois and his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1987. After his PhD he conducted
research at the University of Cambridge. Professor Hesketh's research is in reaction engineering, novel separations including supercritical
fluids, crystallization and ultrafiltration, green engineering, and the chemistry of gaseous pollutant formation and destruction related
to combustion processes. He has received over $3 million in external funding for educational and technical research projects. Professor
Hesketh has presented his educational innovations at international and national meetings and workshops. His dedication to teaching has
been rewarded by receiving several educational awards including the 2005 Chester F. Carlson, 2002 Robert G. Quinn Award, 1999 Ray W.
Fahien Award, 1998 Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award, the 2001, 1999 and 1998 Joseph J. Martin Awards, and four teaching awards.
Professor Hong Zhao is Associate Professor and Vice Director of the Teaching Evaluation Office of Tsinghua
University. She received her masters degree of chemical engineering in 1991 from Tsinghua University and has been working in the department
since 1991 as the Vice Dean. Professor Zhao was a visiting scholar at UMIST in 2003. Her main research interest is focused on higher
pedagogy, including engineering education, teaching methodology and educational sociology.
Professor Bogdana Koumanova is a Dean of the Faculty of Chemical and System Engineering at the
University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy. She defended her PhD thesis and was promoted to Associate Professor at the Department
of Chemical Engineering at the same university. She specialized as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tokyo Technological Institute and later at
many European universities. Professor Koumanova is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering's Working Party on Education
and a member of many specialized scientific councils. Her teaching activity is focused on environmental engineering (wastewater treatment,
solid waste processing). She is involved in extensive investigation on the adsorption, biosorption, biodegradation, photochemical oxidation
of organic compounds and modelling.
Professor Adelio Mendes received his PhD degree in chemical engineering in 1993 from the University
of Porto. Between 1994 and 1995 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at GKSS, Hamburg. Currently he is Associate Professor at the Faculty of
Engineering at the University of Porto. His education interests are the development of experiments for chemical engineering undergraduate
laboratories and designing experiments for increasing students' learning efficiency. His research is mainly focused on adsorption and
membrane processes, fuel cells (DMFC and PEMFC) and solar cells (DSSC). He is the author of one book and author/co-author of more than
70 scientific papers in international journals and seven patents.
Dr Martin Molzahn spent his professional career working for BASF AG in research and development and
later as the Director of Project Engineering and Wintershall AG as Director Engineering Refineries. Since 2002 Dr Molzahn has been an
Independent Consultant. He is active in several scientific societies including being a member of the Executive Board of the European
Federation of Chemical Engineering and also the Chairman of the Federation's Working Party on Education.
Professor K.D.P. Nigam is working on several promising possibilities to develop cleaner and greener technology
and energy efficient innovative devices. He has about 100 research publications in peer reviewed journals. The high impact and significance
of Professor Nigam's work can be judged from the extensive citations it has received in research literature, research monographs, such
as Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, and textbooks.
Dr Martin Pitt worked in industry as a Chemical Plant Manager and Project Chemical Engineer before taking
a PhD at Loughborough University and becoming an academic in 1985. He is now Co-ordinator of Design Teaching in Chemical and Process
Engineering at the University of Sheffield. His three chief interests are education, safety and education for safety.
Professor Richard Smith received his PhD in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology
in 1985 on the topic of critical point measurements of thermally unstable substances. He then joined the Faculty of Chemical Engineering
at Tohoku University and during his career he has been a faculty member in Japan (Tohoku University) and in the United States (University
of South Carolina). Since 2002, he has been a Professor at Tohoku University at the Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology
associated with chemical engineering. His research interests include physical properties, high pressure phase equilibria and phenomena,
especially with water and carbon dioxide systems as applied to developing green chemical processes for biomass and environmental systems.
Professor Reg Tan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
at the National University of Singapore, and holds a joint appointment as Programme Manager for Crystallisation and Particle Science
at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences. He obtained his BSc(Eng) in chemical engineering from Imperial College London,
and PhD from the University of Cambridge. His teaching and research interests include multiphase transport phenomena, process SHE and
pharmaceutical processing.
Professor Ilkka Turunen is a Professor of Process Systems Engineering at Lappeenranta University of
Technology. He has MSc and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology. He has 15 years of industrial
experience mainly in process research and development. Nowadays his main research areas are process intensification and development of
novel process equipment, especially multiphase chemical reactors. Professor Turunen is a member of the Working Party of Education and
the Working Party of Process Intensification of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is also a member of scientific advisory
board of the Finnish Chemical Industry Federation.
Professor Per Warfvinge is Professor in Chemical Engineering at Lund University. His research area
is modelling of soil and water processes. He teaches environmental and aquatic chemistry, as well as chemical reaction engineering with
environmental applications. Since 2001 he has held a position as Dean of Education of the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University.
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