Department staff
Background
Educated at University of Liverpool and University of Exeter. Joined Loughborough University as a lecturer in 1992. Currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Director of Studies (2001 to present).
Professional affiliations
- Member of The Filtration Society
External appointments (since 2000)
- Chairman of The Filtration Society (2000 -2002)
- Editor, Filtration journal
- Editor-in-Chief, Elsevier Filtration and Separation Navigator
- Editorial Board, Physical Separations in Science and Engineering
- EPSRC Peer Review College
- Research Proposal Assessor: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; National Fund for Scientific & Technological Development, Chile; Academy of Science, Czech Republic
- Founder Member American Filtration Society Scientific Committee
- Secretary, EFCE Working Party on Filtration and Separation (to 2006)
Research interests and activities
- Selection, scale-up and process simulation of filtration equipment
- Cake filtration (compressible, variable pressure/mechatronics, binary systems, modelling)
- Post treatment processes (washing, deliquoring, expression)
- Computer software for filter specification
- Force field assisted separation (electrical, ultrasonic)
- Membrane separation (micro-, ultra- and nano-filtration, aqueous and non-aqueous)
Awards
- The Suttle Award, The Filtration Society (1988)
- Senior Moulton Medal, The Institution of Chemical Engineering (1991)
- The Gold Medal, The Filtration Society (1993, 1997)
Invited and keynote lectures
- International Symposium on Membranes in Solvent Filtration (Leuven, Belgium, 2006)
- Annual American Filtration Society Conference (USA, 2009)
- 3rd International Organic Solvent Nanofiltration Conference (UK, 2010)
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Filtech (Germany, 2011)
Organising/Scientific Committee of International Conferences
- Filtech Europa (Düsseldorf, Germany, 2001 and 2003; Wiesbaden Germany, 2005 and 2007)
- 2nd European Conference on Filtration and Separation (Compiegne, France, 2006)
- EMChIE (Vienna, Austria, 2006)
- 9th and 10th World Filtration Congresses (New Orleans, USA, 2004; Leipzig, Germany, 2008)
- 3rd Emission Solutions in Transportation Conference (Ann Arbor, USA, 2007)