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Cambridge, Gb

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Leadership & Project Management: Co-directed lab operations and innovation in nanomaterials, focusing on high-throughput characterization, mechanistic understanding, continuous synthesis, and modelling with first principles and neural networks. Delivered 10 proof-of-concept projects and complex experimental demonstrators. Served as key advisor, second-in-line to the group head. Managed a team of 9 scientists, overseeing daily lab operations, and co-managed a total of 12 R&D projects.-----• Research & Development Excellence: Secured a Senior Research Associate position through technical excellence and a £730k EPSRC grant. Enhanced group capabilities in material synthesis, leading to collaborative projects within and outside the university.• Technical Innovations: Designed and conducted R&D on three manufacturing rigs for the continuous flow synthesis of metal nanoparticles (Ag, Au, Pt, AgPt) and optoelectronic materials (CuInS2), integrating automation, in situ characterization and quality control. Achieved a 12-fold increase in throughput and doubled reproducibility. Generated undisclosed intellectual property and authored 15 articles.• Advanced Simulations: Performed over 500 Ansys Fluent simulations (CFD) of silver-based nanocrystal growth on supercomputers, integrating fluid dynamics and particle population in liquid and gas-liquid environments, each needing around 384 CPU hours.• Coding Expertise: Developed computational interfaces and code in MATLAB, LabVIEW, Batch, AutoHotkey, VBA, Gnuplot, and C for real-time data acquisition and analysis, including 10,000+ lines of MATLAB code to enhance particle size assessment.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅: material syntheses inflow for catalytic and optoelectronic applications (experimental and modelling) -- Linked to the SRA position description• Teaching & Mentorship: Taught 26 hours of “separations processes” and 36 hours of NanoDTC lab sessions. Mentored 6 PhD candidates and trained 12 master's students, fostering a collaborative learning environment.• Collaboration & Networking: Established a strategic partnership with PerkinElmer to enhance bimetallic characterization using SP-ICP-MS technology. Coordinated networking initiatives, co-organized an international manufacturing workshop, and increased the group's visibility through conferences and publications. Co-Engaged with industry partners, including PerkinElmer, Johnson Matthey, Corning SAS, and Ocean Optics, through presentations and discussions.

Brooklyn, Usa

𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅: lab-on-a-chip technologies to reduce R&D cost (experimental)• Technical Innovations: Engineered innovative microfluidic devices for continuous flow experiments in cross-coupling catalysis, soil remediation, and methane hydrate formation, cutting analysis time from one week to under one hour and reducing R&D costs.Authored 4 articles and contributed to integrating demonstrators into Anadarko Petroleum and Nalco Champion workflows.----• Methodology Development: Created an in-situ Raman methodology to examine inorganic interactions with heavy oil spills, contributing to reservoir treatment strategies. Demonstrated a novel approach to assess interfacial thickness for aqueous-phase catalysed cross-couplings.

Lyon + Bordeaux, France

𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅: new pilot plant technologies to intensify catalyst screening for C3 hydrogenation-catalysts (experimental and modelling)• Technological Advancements: Designed and validated the first multicomponent microfluidic device for thermodynamic evaluations, achieving a 5x increase in evaluation speed compared to conventional methods. Enhanced reaction rates on catalytic pilot reactors by over 5 times through improved mass transfer techniques. Generated undisclosed intellectual property hold by industrial partners IFPEN and AXENS.• Modelling & Simulation: Modelled hydrodynamics, mass transfer, and intrinsic kinetics to scale up performance from lab to industrial scale using Ansys Fluent and COMSOL.

Lyon Area, France

𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅: performance of a stirred tank reactor (modelling)• Process Optimization: Engineered an optimized basket reactor with a self-inducing impeller using computational fluid dynamics (Ansys Fluent) for primary catalytic screening.

Porto Area, Portugal

• Propose environment-friendly avenues for phenol degradation. Exposed to the fields of ionic liquids and supercritical fluids.

Porto Area, Portugal

• Managed tight schedules; allocate time for university (38 h/week) and laboratory (15 h/week)• Engineered process development solutions (environment friendly) for phenol degradation• Planned, brainstormed and performed experiments using statistical tools to evaluate the effect of PH, type of enzymes and catalyst concentration (batch reactor and HPLC analysis)

Phd, Chemical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Chemical Engineering