Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies
Head of Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Raya AL-Dadah is a Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Head of the Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory. She took lectureship position at UoB in 1995, promoted to senior lecturer in 2014 and to a reader in 2019. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, member of the Higher Education Academy.
- Email: r.k.al-dadah@bham.ac.uk
Professor in Sustainable Process Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Bushra Al-Duri is a Professor in Sustainable Process Engineering.
Her track record exceeds 132 publications, including 46 conference papers, 22 keynote lectures and 28 PhD studentships. Her specialty covers fundamentals and design of high-pressure high-temperature processes, to convert hazardous waste to useful compounds, clean water and energy. Her latest work involves assesses a novel ...
- Email: b.al-duri@bham.ac.uk
Birmingham Fellow
Assistant Professor in Polymeric Biomaterials
School of Chemistry
Maria Chiara Arno (Chiara) is a Birmingham Fellow, working across the School of Chemistry and the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences.
With a background in polymer chemistry and nanoparticle design, Dr Arno’s research interests span across a diverse range of disciplines, including Polymer Chemistry, Materials Science, and Life Sciences.
- Email: m.c.arno@bham.ac.uk
Reader in Chemical Imaging
Deputy Head of School
School of Chemistry
Melanie’s research is at the interface between chemistry, chemical engineering and physics. She has 15 years experience of developing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experiments to probe chemistry and flow in complex systems and has published over 30 papers and book chapters in this area.
- Email: m.m.britton@bham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Geotechnical Infrastructure Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Nigel Cassidy has over 30 years’ academic and industrial experience in near-surface geophysics, geotechnical engineering and numerical modelling. His research focuses on the development of remote monitoring, modelling and inversion techniques to solve practical environmental and geo-engineering problems.
- Email: n.j.cassidy@bham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr Doustdar has more than ten years of teaching, research and industrial experience in environmental pollutants control and decarbonisation technologies, working as a research fellow and a teaching fellow at the University of Birmingham and working as a seconded researcher in world-leading industries and collaborating with them in power solution, marine and transportation.
Email: o.doustdar@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Polymer Engineering
Head of Sensors and Composites Group
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Professor Fernando is part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics. This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, engineers, philosophers, linguists, economists, artists, writers, lawyers, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address ...
- Email: g.fernando@bham.ac.uk
Senior Expert Bioeconomy, Fraunhofer Umsicht
Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham
School of Chemical Engineering
In April 2021, Professor Andreas Hornung was appointed Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham.
Andreas Hornung holds 21 patents and has published more than 340 scientific publications to date.
The main strategic topic of Hornung’s work today is the development of decentralized power providing units combined with pyrolysis, gasification and digestion units.
- Email: andreas.hornung@umsicht.fraunhofer.de
Senior Lecturer
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Ingram is part of the University of Birmingham’s interdisciplinary Positron Imaging Centre, which is responsible for conceiving and developing Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) – a pioneering tool for studying the fundamentals of flow in physics and engineering.
- Email: a.ingram@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr Mehdi Jangi is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering.
His key research interests are application of computational modelling in decarbonising power and heat and sustainable materials, CFD modelling of complex fluid systems involving chemical reactions, turbulence, and multiphase phenomena, and has published over 70 papers in top ranked journals in this area.
- Email: m.jangi@bham.ac.uk
Professor in Geotechnical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Professor Jefferson graduated from Loughborough University, with a BEng (hons) Degree in Civil Engineering. He then continued to read for a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering.
After completion of his doctorate in 1992, he worked for three years as a lecturer at Loughborough University. After which he joined Nottingham Trent University as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in 1995.
- Email: i.jefferson@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Dr Mike Jenkins is an Associate Professor in the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham. He is a research active polymer scientist and thermal analyst with over 20 years of professional experience in these fields, he also leads the polymer characterization and thermal analysis research group.
- Email: m.j.jenkins@bham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Matt Keith is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering with a primary research interest in the recycling of complex materials.
Matt has published multiple research articles and conference papers alongside writing book chapters on the recycling of carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRPs). His PhD research investigated the use of supercritical fluids
- Email: m.j.keith@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Chemical Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Gary has over 20 years expertise in resource efficiency and the development of processes to recover, upgrade and remanufacture materials and chemicals.
Gary works at the interface of chemical engineering/chemistry/materials and has expertise in high pressure engineering and thermo-chemical processing, specifically in reaction engineering, separation technology, and polymer/composite processing.
- Email: g.a.leeke@bham.ac.uk
Caroline McCalman
ISTEMMiCS Research Fellow for Future Flight
Email: c.e.mccalman@bham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Taghi Miri is a Chemical Engineer with over 20 years of research experience. Dr Miri's has been involved with a number of different industries , including Marlow Food, CSM Bakery, Mondelez, P&G, Smithers Rapra. His research covers a range of topics, including:
- Plant-based food processing and safety
- Future food: process and safety challenges of food reformulation
- Email: t.miri@bham.ac.uk
Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research)
Professor of Polymer Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Rachel O’Reilly holds a Chair in Chemistry within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1998 with a BA in Natural Sciences, and in 1999 with an MSc in Chemistry and completed her PhD in 2003 from Imperial College London.
- Email: r.oreilly@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Helen Onyeaka is an industrial microbiologist with over 25 years of experience. Her career in microbiology to date has been varied with experience gained in industry as well as academia (both teaching and research).
Dr Onyeaka lectures and leads modules on various postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Food Microbiology, Food Safety and Chemical Engineering.
- Email: h.onyeaka@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Formulation Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Jonathan Seville is Professor of Formulation Engineering at the University of Birmingham.
Formulation Engineering concerns the design, manufacture and use of products which are structured to create desirable effects when they are consumed or used. Examples are foods, pharmaceuticals, fast-moving consumer goods such as cleaners, and speciality products such as paints, catalysts, and detergents.
- Email: j.p.k.seville@bham.ac.uk
Lecturer in Water Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Dr Sharifi is a Lecturer in Water Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham. In the last 10 years, he has worked on several research projects in the areas of Hydrology, Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering.
- Email: s.sharifi@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Kit Windows-Yule is a Turing Fellow, a two-time Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow, and an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering, working jointly with the School of Physics and Astronomy’s Positron Imaging Centre.
- Email: c.r.windows-yule@bham.ac.uk
Professor in Chemical Reaction Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Professor Joe Wood leads the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering research group in the School of Chemical Engineering.
He has published over 110 refereed research articles including journal papers and book chapters, plus over 85 conference papers covering a range of topics in catalysis, catalytic reactor operation and environmental engineering.
- Email: j.wood@bham.ac.uk
Arianna Brandolese
Senior Research Fellow (Group Leader) in Sustainable Polymer Chemistry, Dove Group
Email: a.brandolese@bham.ac.uk
Dr Omid Doustdar
Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email: O.Doustdar@bham.ac.uk
Guido Grause
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering
Email: g.grause@bham.ac.uk
