Division of Chemical Engineering and Renewable Energy
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Academic Members
![]() Dr Folashade Akinmolayan Taiwo |
![]() Dr Paul Balcombe |
![]() Dr Edo Boek |
![]() Dr Adrian Briggs |
![]() Dr Joe Briscoe |
![]() Dr Andrew Buchan |
![]() Prof James Busfield |
![]() Dr Patrick Cullen |
![]() Prof Xi Jiang |
![]() Dr Ana Jorge Sobrido |
![]() Prof Martin Knight |
![]() Prof Hazel Screen |
![]() Dr Radomir Slavchov |
![]() Dr Petra Ágota Szilágyi |
![]() Dr Roberto Volpe |
![]() Prof Wen Wang |
![]() Dr Yousef Zawahreh |
![]() Dr Han Zhang |
Postdoc Research Associates
![]() Dr Stephen Burrows |
![]() Dr Jianxin Chen |
![]() Dr Carlos Correia BragaPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Tian DuPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Weiqi Li |
![]() Dr Alan Yannic Rolf WerlingResearch Assistant, SBCS |
![]() Dr Clare Thompson |
Professional Services
![]() Dr Yamin Abdouni |
![]() Dr Russell Bailey |
![]() Dr Erica Di Federico |
![]() Mr Nick DugganWorkshop Technician |
![]() Dr Benjamin Gridley |
![]() Dr Benjamin Gridley |
![]() Dr Shoghik Hakobyan |
![]() Mr Dennis IfeMechanical Workshop Manager |
![]() Ms Jun Ma |
![]() Mr Andrew McDonaldMechanical Workshop Technician |
![]() Mr Danny Neighbour |
![]() Dr Giovanni Santagiuliana |
![]() Mr James SearlesMechanical Workshop Technician |
Current PhD Students
Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
AHLI, Huda | Affect of mechanical deformation of solar cell performance | Joe Briscoe |
AUGURIO, Adriana | Solution processed nanostructured ferroelectric thin films for photoelectrochemical water splitting | Joe Briscoe |
BEJA FERREIRA, Marta | Biophysical biomarkers to characterize cancer-associated fibroblasts in drug screening strategies. | Martin Knight |
CHEN, Cheng | Large Eddy Simulation of Supercritical Fuel Injection and Spray Combustion | Xi Jiang |
DOSZCZECZKO, Szymon | Bifunctional Hybrid Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions | Ana Jorge Sobrido |
DRAIN, Ben | Post-Polymerisation modification to form functional polymers | James Busfield |
FORRESTER, Chloe | Ferroelectric-enhanced photovoltaics: synthesis and study of photovoltaic-ferroelectric nanocomposites | Joe Briscoe |
GAINS, Connor | Developing a rat model of tendinopathy to investigate mechanobiology of the disease | Hazel Screen |
GARCIA SANCHEZ, Brenda | Novel Models of Tendinopathy on a Chip | Hazel Screen |
GUO, Qian | Hematite-based Photoelectrodes for Photoassisted Oxygen Evolution Reaction | Ana Jorge Sobrido |
GUO, Ziyu | Modelling and characterisation of cancer cells in flows | Yi Sui |
HE, Qinrong | Novel flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters (nanogenerators) for wearable and composite applications | Joe Briscoe |
HOHENBERGER, Travis | The design of down hole elastomer packers for the oil and gas industry | James Busfield |
JURADO TERRAZAS, Dariel | Organ-on-a-chip model of cartilage disease | Martin Knight |
KAUR, Anureet | Self Healing Elastomers | James Busfield |
KYEI-MANU, William | Fracture behaviour in high performance tyres | James Busfield |
LIN, Tao | The dynamics of particles in flows with applications in material sciences and biomedical engineering | Yi Sui |
LU, Ruixin | Numerical simulation of cell dynamics in inertial flows | Yi Sui |
MCFIE, Megan | Development of high throughput imaging screen of compounds effecting primary cilia structure and resulting modulation of mechanosignalling and other cilia functions in chondrocytes. | Martin Knight |
MENG, Huan | The effect of substrate stiffness on primary cilia and regulation of the tumour microenvironment. | Martin Knight |
MINGOES, Carlos | Chiral nanohybrids - Photocatalysis with a spin. | Ana Jorge Sobrido |
MOHAN, Lokeshwari | TBC | Joe Briscoe |
NABI, Raheem | Enhanced Heat Transfer For Engineering Cooling Systems Using CFD For Acoustically Driven Flows. | Xi Jiang |
NAZ, Nabila | Numerical simulation of electrohydrodynamics | Yi Sui |
NIU, Kaiyuan | IL-10 signalling in human vascular development (human vascular cell differentiation from induced-pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)) | Wen Wang |
NORTON, Rebecca | Factors Impacting Tissue Compliance in the Human Left Atrium and its Effect on Radiofrequency Ablation Success | Hazel Screen |
PATEL, Ruhi | Optimisation of a Novel Polymeric Heart Valve | James Busfield |
PHILBROOKS, Luke | The interfascicular matrix niche ? novel approaches to identify the aetiology of tendinopathy | Hazel Screen |
RATNASINGHAM, Ryley | TBC | Joe Briscoe |
SAMAD, Hudair | Microfluidics for sorting circulating tumor cells | Yi Sui |
SASSO, Giacomo | Graphene based transparent electrodes for tuneable optical devices | James Busfield |
SHIVAPATHAM, Shivapatham | Investigating human Achilles tendon biomechanics using novel ultrasound imaging approaches | Hazel Screen |
TAGHI, Naoual | Extraction of lipids from algae suspensions for biofuel applications | Edo Boek |
THORN, Thomas | Nanofiller and thermoplastic interleave optimisation... | Han Zhang |
TIAN, Gengyu | Investigation of new electroactive materials for solar redox flow batteries. | Ana Jorge Sobrido |
TRAN THI NGOC, Linh | Biomass-derived electrospun fibres / transition metal oxide perovskites for oxygen electrocatalysis applications | Ana Jorge Sobrido |
VICTORIA TAFOYA, Jorge | B-doped Carbon Nano-ribbons for Oxygen Reduction Reaction | Ana Jorge Sobrido |
VIZCAINO VERGARA, Maria | TBC | James Busfield |
WANG, Sikun | Advanced Study of Holographic Acoustic Trapping using Ultrasound | Xi Jiang |
YANES NUNEZ, Eduardo | Frictional Properties of Rubber in Elastomer Seals. | James Busfield |
YU, Mengwei | Physicochemical Modelling of Multi-Component Liquid Biofuel Combustion | Xi Jiang |
YUAN, Haozhen | Development of new photo-ferroelectric materials for photoelectrocatalysis and photovoltaics | Joe Briscoe |
ZHANG, Yuan | Textile-based wearable energy harvesters | Joe Briscoe |
ZHAO, Luoguang | Numerical simulation of cells in flows | Wen Wang |
PhD Graduates
Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
2017 | ||
CHEN, Bin | Electric Breakdown of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Materials | Federico Carpi, James Busfield |
WU, Guangchang | Predicting tyre compound wear. | James Busfield, Emiliano Bilotti |
UDEZE, Chineye | The Effects of Loading Frequency on Tenocyte Matabolism | Hazel Screen |
WANG, Zhen | Motion of deformable capsules in complex flows | Yi Sui |
BAUMARD, Thomas | Fatigue life prediction in aircraft tyres | James Busfield |
ZAHABI, Hediyeh | Development of materials and applications for electroactive composites | James Busfield, Federico Carpi |
ASARE, Eric | SmartNanoHeat - Self-regulating heating compounds | Emiliano Bilotti, James Busfield |
COLAK, Burcu | Micro-patterning of peptide-based biomaterials | Julien Gautrot, Hazel Screen |
2016 | ||
PATEL, Dharmesh | A novel fibre composite system to investigate tenocyte metabolism under physiological and pathological loading conditions. | Hazel Screen |
LIN, Miao | Interaction between the circulating blood and vascular endothelial cells in health & disease. Cell Mechanics for endothelial glycocalyx | Wen Wang, Asa Barber |
CHEN, Xia | Investigating the effects of cholesterol on phospholipid bilayer with molecular dynamics simulations. | Wen Wang, Yiling Lu |
YANG, Junyao | The role of HDAC7-related peptide in stem cell differentiation towards endothelial cell | Wen Wang |
YU, Baoqi | The synergistic role of mechanical stimuli and VEGF treatment in stem cell differentiation to endothelial cells | Wen Wang |
DALBAY, Melis | Roles of primary cilia in hMSC in differentiation | Martin Knight |
JIA, Liyong | Micro-structure reorganisation of the aortic heart valve under a biaxial loading condition | Hazel Screen, Wen Wang |
HUANG, Menglong | The Strain Dependent Dielectric Behaviour of Carbon Black Filled Natural Rubber | James Busfield, Emiliano Bilotti |
WANG, Zhao | The effects of the rate of hypo-osmotic challenge and IFT88 mutation on the biomechanics of chondrocytes. | Martin Knight, Wen Wang |
2015 | ||
DEO, Devendra Inder | Microcapsule for targetted drug delivery to diseased tissues | Wen Wang, Gleb Sukhorukov |
WANG, Xiaocong | The Role of DKK3 in Vascular Smooth Muscle Differentiation | Wen Wang |
LU, Zhengjun | Microfluidics for a novel bioreactor | Wen Wang, Pankaj Vadgama |
LI, Wei-Qi | Electrical stimulation on cell-cell interactions in vitro | Wen Wang |
ZEINELABDEEN, Mudather | Modelling Condensation on Banks of Plain Tubes | Adrian Briggs, Huasheng Wang |
SLIOGERYTE, Kristina | Mechanical properties of stem cells using micropipette aspiration | Martin Knight, David Lee |
YU, Xiaotian | Functional impact of microRNA-34a on stem cell differentiation towards smooth muscle cell | Wen Wang |
TUNNICLIFFE, Lewis | The development of a novel nanostructured silica filler for high friction and low rolling resistance rubber applications. | James Busfield |
2014 | ||
SHORTER, Rob | The behaviour of hollow sphere filled rubber materials under strain | James Busfield |
LIU, Weizhi | Microcapsule internalization be cells in vitro caused by physical and biochemical stimuli | Gleb Sukhorukov, Wen Wang |
KAMRAN, Muhammad | Numerical and experimental investigation of room temperature magnetic refrigerators/heat pumps | Hua Sheng Wang, Adrian Briggs |
ASARE, Samuel | Failure of Rubber Components under Fatigue | James Busfield |
DE VILLIERS, Danielle Simone | Accelerated wear protocols for understanding clinical wear in modern hip prostheses | Julia Shelton, Martin Knight |
QIU, Lin | Novel polymeric matrix and its interaction withbiological cells | Wen Wang, Ton Peijs |
2013 | ||
SAKULKAEW, Kartpan | Tearing of rubber | James Busfield |
IRIANTO, Jerome | Nuclear Related Responses to Osmotic Challenge in Chondrocytes | David Lee, Martin Knight |
CHAUDHRY, Saira | A Biomechanical Characterisation of Eccentric and Concentric Loading of the Triceps Surae Complex | Hazel Screen |
THOMPSON, Claire | Interaction between primary cilia length and hedgehog signalling in response to mechanical and thermal stress | Martin Knight |
2012 | ||
HOTHI, Hardip Singh | The Impact and Deformation of Press-Fit Metal Acetablular Components | Julia Shelton, James Busfield |
ANSSARI-BENIM, Afshin | Structure-Function Relationships in the Aortic Valve | Hazel Screen |
PRAVINCUMAR, Priyanka | Viscoelastic Response of Cells and the Role of Actin Cytoskeletal Remodelling | Martin Knight |
LOWE, David | Natural Rubber/Organoclay Nanocomposites | James Busfield |
BAI, Ke | Spatial distribution, temporal development and mechanical properties of the endothelial glycocalyx in vitro | Wen Wang |
LIU, Yankai | Modelling studies on biological tissue property and mechanical responses under external stimuli | Wen Wang |
2011 | ||
CHAI, Chanyuan | Can Interface Conditions be Modified by Support Surfaces to Minimise the Risk of Pressure Ulcer Development? | Wen Wang, Dan Bader |
LUO, Zhenling | microRNAs play a role in human embryonic stem cell differentiation into endothelial cells | Wen Wang |
YE, Shang Jun | Computational modelling of flows in porous scaffold materials using a lattice Boltzmann method | Wen Wang |
HOSNY, Neveen | Development of a non-invasive method to detect pericellular spatial oxygen gradients using FLIM | Martin Knight |
FITZGERALD, Claire | Forced-convection condensation heat-transfer on horizontal integral-fin tubes including effects of liquid retention | Adrian Briggs |
ALI, Hafiz M | Free-convection condensation on single horizontal pin-fin tubes | Adrian Briggs |
2010 | ||
GABRIEL, Philip | Investigation and Modelling of Rubber Friction | James Busfield |
SUPHADON, Nutthanun | Viscoelastic Properties of Elastomer under Complex Loading | James Busfield |
TOORANI, Shima | The Influence of Microstructure on the Mechanical Behaviours of Tendons | Hazel Screen, Julia Shelton |
2009 | ||
GUO, Lei | Novel biosensors and Their application in Mass Transport | Wen Wang, Pankaj Vadgama |
JHA, Vineetkumar | Carbon Black Filler Reinforcement of Elastomers | James Busfield |
VAUGHAN, Natalie | The potential of pulsed low-intensity ultrasound to stimulate chondrocytes in a 3D model system | Martin Knight |