Dr Ian Hamilton MChem, PhD, PgDip, MRSC

• Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership, Charted Management institute, 2010
• PhD in Materials Sciences/Instrumental Design, University of Huddersfield, 2009
• MChem in Chemistry with Chemical Engineering, University of Huddersfield, 2005

Ian Hamilton attended the University of Huddersfield; firstly to gain a MChem in Chemistry with Chemical Engineering (2005) and then a PhD in Microwave Thermal Analysis (2009). He then worked for Polaroid Eyewear in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde, where as a research scientist he also trained as a project manager, gaining a level 5 Diploma in Management and leadership (2010). He returned to academia in 2011, as a postdoctoral research Fellow at the University of Nottingham investigating novel and commercially viable scale up routes for industrial microwave chemical processes. In 2013, he joined the University of Birmingham as a postdoctoral research fellow, investigating the use of emulsion technology in fat reduction.

Teaching Programmes

• Measurement Techniques (module Co-ordinator 2015)
• Developing Food Structure

Ian co-supervises a number of postgraduate students within the Microstructure Group within the School of Chemical Engineering

Research themes

• Emulsion technology in fat reduction
• Advanced drying techniques
• Impact of electromagnetic processing on microstructuring

Research activity

Ian has been investigating the effect the selective/targeted nature of microwave interactions has on the potential to deliver products that cannot be obtained by other heating sources.

Ian has presented at a several of conferences, including the Second Global Conference on Microwave Energy Applications (2GCMEA), Long Beach, California, USA, July 2012 (Regeneration of Commercial Plastics by Depolymerisation with Microwave Induced Pyrolysis), and the 12^thInternational Hydrocolloids Conference (IHC), Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.), May 2014 (Effects of sunflower oil addition on viscosity and lubrication properties of xanthan gum fluid gels) and the 12th International Congress on Engineering and Food (ICEF12), Qubec city, Canada, June 2015 (Microwave vacuum drying to produce rehydratable hydrocolloid microstructures [gels and fluid gels])