Dr Alasdair Campbell. After the completion of his PhD, Dr. Campbell served as the Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering at Girton College, Cambridge from 2007 until 2012. During this time he focused on experimental and theoretical investigations of buoyant reactive flows. In 2011, Dr. Campbell was awarded the Hinshelwood Prize by the Combustion Institute. This prize is awarded in recognition of meritorious work by a young scientist of the British Section of the Combustion Institute. Dr. Campbell joins the Department from the University of Surrey where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017.
Dr Kyra Sedransk Campbell is currently a Royal Society EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow in Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. Prior to this, she joined ICL as a post-doctoral research associate this position followed the completion of her PhD from the University of Cambridge. The Campbell research group is focused around understanding how materials change, addressing three areas: degradation of liquids and solids, corrosion, and foaming of solutions.
Dr Kang Tan Lee moved to the University of Sheffield in 2015, where she worked on microbial polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production. Her main research interest is in sustainable biomanufacturing. Leveraging the technologies in synthetic biology and her experience in strain engineering, her team creates fit-for-purpose microorganisms that use renewable feedstock in sustainable industrial bioprocesses. She also currently holds the Global Challenge Fellowship. In collaborate with The National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Thailand, her fellowship research aims to develop a sustainable bioprocess for conversion of agricultural wastes to biodegradable plastics (PHA).
Dr Brant Walkley joined the University of Sheffield in October 2016 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate after completing my PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The University of Melbourne,) Dr Walkley has seven years of international research and consulting experience across world leading academic institutions and industry. His research focuses on development of sustainable and advanced materials for a wide variety of applications in infrastructure, energy and electronics industries. Particular focus is centred on investigation of composition-structure-property relationships, reaction mechanisms and kinetics in novel nanomaterials, nanocomposites, ceramics, and cementitious binders, using advanced spectroscopic and microstructural techniques, including solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Dr Sergio Vernuccio joins the department from Northwestern University, USA, where he was a postdoctoral research fellow. At Northwestern he studied mechanisms of acid-based oligomerization of olefins on zeolites for the upgrading of shale gas resources. He received a PhD in Process Engineering (2017) from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, under the direction of Prof. Philipp Rudolf von Rohr, where he worked on the application of structured reactors to three-phase reactive processes with high industrial relevance. Prior to pursuing his PhD, Sergio worked as a Process Engineer for Technip Italy S.p.A., Rome, where he was involved in design and reconfiguration of refinery process units and petrochemical plants. Sergio combines computational modeling techniques and experimental activities to describe the complexity and understand the nature of reactive processes. His main research interests are fundamental analysis of catalytic kinetics, first-principles based microkinetic modelling of complex chemical processes, and flow chemistry in porous structured reactors in prospect of process intensification.