The Postdoc Symposium is the main postdoctoral event of the year and promotes the excellent research of our postdoctoral researchers. It’s organised by the Postdoc Committee, with support from the Department.
Postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit abstracts and present their work with posters or talks, to an audience comprised of academics, researchers and staff in the Department. Prizes are awarded for the top presentations, including the Sir William Wakeham Award which comes with a £2000 prize.
Postdoc Symposium 2022
Keynote
Career Panel with Dr Ceri Hammond, Dr Anna Hankin, Dr Yuval Elani and Dr Francesca Ceroni
Oral presentations
- Alain Li - From haemoglobin to single-site hydrogenation catalyst
- Pedro Verdía Barbará - Production of micro-fibrillated cellulose from waste wood using protic ionic liquids
- Gunjan Tyagi - Light-activated surfactants for fast anti-microbial action: Self-assembly and membrane solubilization
- Carsten Wedler - Thermophysical properties of hydrogen for flow metrology in the hydrogen infrastructure
- Yubing Hu - Holographic sensors for biochemical diagnostics
- Rochelle Aw - Utilising the Industrial Expression Platform Pichia Pastoris for the Production of Vaccine Targets
- Felipe Antonio Perdomo Hurtado - Design of Lipophilic Solvents Systems for Energy-efficient CO2 Capture by Absorption
- Selene Pirola - Predicting Dissection Risk in Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Using Patient-specific Image-based CFD
- Hui Luo - Glycerolyser: Sustainable Electrochemical Glycerol Partial Oxidation for Hydrogen Production
- Pavani Cherukupally - Surface-Engineered Sponges: An Emerging Affordable Solution for Oil Recovery from Wastewaters to Pathogen Removal from Contaminated Rivers
William Wakeham Award winners
Winner: Dr Heather Au
Highly commended: Dr Pavani Cherukupally
Highly commended: Dr Gan Huang
Chemical Engineering prizes
Best oral presentation: Dr Gunjan Tyagi
Best poster presentation: Dr Matyas Daboczi
Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE) prizes
Best oral presentation: Dr Alain Li
Best poster presentation: Dr Vivek Verma
Postdoc symposium 2020 recording
The recording of the Symposium is available online (log-in required).
Past symposia
- Postdoc symposium 2019
- Postdoc symposium 2020
- Postdoc symposium 2018
- Postdoc symposium 2017
- Postdoc symposium 2016
- Postdoc symposium 2015
Keynote lecture
Patrizia Marchetti, Life beyond the postdoc: my story
Postdoc talks
- Coby Clarke, Ionogel Surfaces
- Mo Qiao, Oxygenophilic Ionic Liquids Promote Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysis in Nanocarbons
- Brice Saint-Michel, Bubble Motion in Yield-Stress Fluids
- Sara Febra, The SAFT-γ Mie group contribution approach in the prediction of properties of systems relevant to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)
- Carlos Pozo, On the design of sustainable electricity mixes
- Anna Hankin, Design and Development of Photo-electrochemical Hydrogen Production Systems
William Wakeham Award winners
- Antonio Del Rio Chanona
- Ruijiao Dong, Bio-Inspired Information-Containing Polymers with the Precision of Nature
Keynote lecture
Alex Brogan, The Long and Winding Road from Postdoc to Academia
Postdoc talks
- Rochelle Aw, Utilising the Industrial Expression Platform Pichia Pastoris for the Production of Vaccine Targets
- Felipe Antonio Perdomo Hurtado, Design of Lipophilic Solvents Systems for Energy-efficient CO2 Capture by Absorption
- Selene Pirola, Predicting Dissection Risk in Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Using Patient-specific Image-based CFD
- Hui Luo, Glycerolyser: Sustainable Electrochemical Glycerol Partial Oxidation for Hydrogen Production
- Pavani Cherukupally, Surface-Engineered Sponges: An Emerging Affordable Solution for Oil Recovery from Wastewaters to Pathogen Removal from Contaminated Rivers
William Wakeham Award winners
Winner
Yu Huang, Fibrinogen-mimicking, Multi-arm Nanovesicles for Targeted Thrombolytic Therapy
Highly commended
Maja Rucker, From Molecular Interactions to Darcy-scale Flow Responses - the Impact of Wetting on Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
Ignacio Moya Ramirez, Low-cost Biosensors to Test the Integrity of mRNAs
Poster presentation winners
- Best talk: Rochelle Aw, “Utilising the Industrial Expression Platform Pichia Pastoris for the Production of Vaccine Targets”
- Best multidisciplinary talk: Selene Pirola, “Predicting Dissection Risk in Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Using Patient-specific Image-based CFD”
- Best poster: Inyoung Jang, “Tailoring the Ratio of A-Site Cations in Pr1–xNdxBaCo1.6Fe0.4O5+δ to Promote the Higher Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity for LT-SOFC”
- Best multidisciplinary poster: Suela Jonuzaj, “Solvent mixture design and optimization for the integrated purification in pharmaceutical manufacturing”
Recording
The recording of the Symposium is available on the for internal use only.
The symposium took place on 25 April 2018 at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Lecture Theatre 1 and the SCR.
Keynote presentation by Sir William Wakeham, former Head of Department and current visiting professor.
Download the
Programme
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch in the Chem Eng SCR |
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14:00-14:45 |
Keynote lecture: Employability of STEM graduates and a sample of one |
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14:45-14:50 |
Presentation of Sir William Wakeham Awards |
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14:50-15:10 |
Tao Li |
Ceramic Hollow Fiber - Advanced Fabrication to Functionalization |
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15:10-15:30 |
Lisa Joss |
X-ray CT imaging of gas adsorption to characterize nanoporous materials |
| 15:30-15:50 | Tea and coffee | |
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15:50-16:10 |
Suela Jonuzaj |
Designing optimal solvents and solvent mixtures from atom groups for separation processes |
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16:10-16:30 |
Robert Woodward |
Hypercrosslinked microporous polymer sorbents for the efficient recycling of a soluble acide catalyst in cellulose hydrolysis |
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16:30-16:50 |
Nathaniel Cooper | Development of Resource Mapping Tools for Biomass Supply Chain Optimisations |
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16:50-17:10 |
Silvia Di Lecce | Development of intermolecular potential model for aqueous carboxylate salts solution using SAFT - y Mie |
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17:10-17:30 |
Huaiyu Yang | Continuous Protein Crystallisation |
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17:30-17:50 |
Isaac Sugden | Accurate and Efficient Handling of Molecular Flexibility in Crystal Structure Prediction |
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17:50-18:10 |
Ana Quiroga-Campano | Mathematical model to predict chemotherapy outcomes |
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18:10 |
Wine reception and Poster Session in Chem Eng SCR | |
Organising committee
Alex Brogan, Emily Chapman, Danilo Cuccato, Sarah Hedberg, George Jackson, Cleo Kontoravdi, Mihaela Stevar, Sneha Saunders, Peter Yatsyshin
The symposium took place on 27 April 2017 at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Lecture Theatre 1 and the SCR.
Keynote presentation by Professor Nilay Shah, Head of Department.
Download the Postdoc Symposium 2017 Programme and Abstracts (.pdf)
Programme
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09:30–10:00 |
Keynote presentation: Professor Nilay Shah, Head of Department |
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10:00–10:20 |
Piers Gaffney |
Liquid Phase Oligonucleotide Synthesis with Membrane Separation for Efficient Large Scale Manufacturing |
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10:20–10:40 |
Michael Dallaston |
The dynamic formation of iterated structures in thin films |
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10:40–11:00 |
Lisa Joss |
Measuring gas adsorption isotherms in three dimensions by X-ray computed tomography |
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11:00–11:15 |
Coffee break |
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11:15–11:35 |
Carlos Pozo |
Cooperation and full transparency for climate change mitigation |
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11:35–11:55 |
Konstantinos Christoforidis |
Combined CO2 Capture and Photocatalytic Conversion using advanced materials |
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11:55–12:15 |
Aiman Alam Nazki |
From basic enzymatic building blocks to bacterial signalling pathways: a systematic elucidation of spatial regulation and compartmentalization of biochemical pathways |
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12:15–12:20 |
Presentation of Sir William Wakeham awards |
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12:20–12:40 |
Petr Yatsyshin |
Computational statistical mechanical framework for soft condensed matter. Mean-field description of wetting at the nanoscale |
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12:40 – 13:00 |
Robert Woodward |
Hierarchically porous carbon foams via emulsion-templated polymers |
Organising committee
Postdocs: Alex Brogan, Peter Yatsyshin
Academics: George Jackson, Cleo Kontoravdi
Support staff: Geneviève Timmins, Nathalie Simpson
The symposium took place on 18 April 2016 at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Lecture Theatre 1 and the SCR.
Read a write up of the event: The 2016 Chemical Engineering postdoc symposium.
Keynote lecture by Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator, "How on Earth did I get here?".
Download the symposium programme and abstract book.
Schedule:
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch and Poster session in departmental senior common room |
| 13:10–13:50 | Keynote lecture: Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London How on Earth did I get here? |
| 13:50–14:10 | Susie Sou Understanding the impact of mild hypothermia on monoclonal antibody glycosylation in CHO cell cultures through experimental and computational analyses |
| 14:10–14:30 | Benjamin Aymard Multiphase flows in confinement with complex geometry |
| 14:30–14:50 | Paul Balcombe Determining the distribution of natural gas supply chain emissions |
| 14:50–15:10 | Break |
| 15:10–15:30 | Matthew Hennessey Instability-driven 3D patterning of deformable polymer networks |
| 15:30–15:50 | Anna Hankin Design and development of photo-electrochemical reactors for hydrogen production with solar energy |
| 15:50–16:10 | Lyes Kahouadji The code BLUE: massively parallel direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional multi-phase flows |
| 16:10–16:30 | Sir William Wakeham Award Winner: Patrizia Marchetti Molecular separation with organic solvent nanofiltration: membrane characterisation and process prediction |
| 16:30–16:50 | Sir William Wakeham Award Winner: Agi Brandt-Talbot Turning trees into chemicals using ionic liquids |
| 16:50–17:00 | Closing remarks and prizes |
| 17:00–19:00 | Wine reception in the SCR |
Organising Committee
Academics: Cleo Kontoravdi, George Jackson
Postdocs: Yoli Sanchez-Vicente, Alex Brogan, Peter Yatsyshin, Mihaela Stevar, Ju Zhu
Support staff: Zoe Townsend, Michael Panagopulos
The 2015 Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering Postdoc Symposium was held at the Department on 23 September 2015. Read a write-up with photos from the event.
Programme
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch and Poster session in Level 3 Design Rooms |
| 13:30 | Keynote lecture: Pinky Dua, Senior Director and Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Pfizer Modelling and simulation in drug discovery and development |
| 14:10 | Lisa Kleiminger Closing the renewable energy gap – energy storage employing solid oxide electrolysers |
| 14:30 | Santanu Karan Sub–10 nm polyamide nanofilms with ultrafast solvent transport for molecular separation |
| 14:50 | Alessandra Vitale Coupling frontal photopolymerization and surface instabilities for a novel 3D patterning process |
| 15:10 | Break |
| 15:30 | Qilei Song Molecularly designed functional nanomaterials for energy and sustainability |
| 15:50 | Angelo Pomella Understanding cell rupture mechanisms in ultrasonication for bioprocessing applications |
| 16:10 | Alex Brogan Protein-polymer surfactant nanoconstructs for increased solubility and thermal stability in ionic liquids |
| 16:30 | Sir William Wakeham Award lecture: James Kimber ATR-FTIR Spectroscopic imaging of dynamic processes |
| 16:55 | Closing remarks & prizes |
| 17:00–18:00 | Informal drinks in the SCR |
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Academics: Cleo Kontoravdi, George Jackson
Postdoc representatives: Yoli Sanchez-Vicente, Maria Jimenez Solomon, Peter Yatsyshin
Support staff: Zoe Townsend, Michael Panagopulos
