The Postdoc Symposium is the main postdoctoral event of the year and promotes the excellent research of our postdoctoral researchers. It’s organised by the Postdoc Committee, with support from the Department.

Postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit abstracts and present their work with posters or talks, to an audience comprised of academics, researchers and staff in the Department. Prizes are awarded for the top presentations, including the Sir William Wakeham Award which comes with a £2000 prize.

Postdoc Symposium 2022

Keynote

Career Panel with Dr Ceri Hammond, Dr Anna Hankin, Dr Yuval Elani and Dr Francesca Ceroni

Oral presentations

  • Alain Li - From haemoglobin to single-site hydrogenation catalyst
  • Pedro Verdía Barbará - Production of micro-fibrillated cellulose from waste wood using protic ionic liquids
  • Gunjan Tyagi - Light-activated surfactants for fast anti-microbial action: Self-assembly and membrane solubilization
  • Carsten Wedler - Thermophysical properties of hydrogen for flow metrology in the hydrogen infrastructure
  • Yubing Hu - Holographic sensors for biochemical diagnostics
  • Rochelle Aw - Utilising the Industrial Expression Platform Pichia Pastoris for the Production of Vaccine Targets
  • Felipe Antonio Perdomo Hurtado - Design of Lipophilic Solvents Systems for Energy-efficient CO2 Capture by Absorption
  • Selene Pirola - Predicting Dissection Risk in Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Using Patient-specific Image-based CFD
  • Hui Luo - Glycerolyser: Sustainable Electrochemical Glycerol Partial Oxidation for Hydrogen Production
  • Pavani Cherukupally - Surface-Engineered Sponges: An Emerging Affordable Solution for Oil Recovery from Wastewaters to Pathogen Removal from Contaminated Rivers

William Wakeham Award winners 

Winner: Dr Heather Au

Highly commended: Dr Pavani Cherukupally

Highly commended: Dr Gan Huang

Chemical Engineering prizes

Best oral presentation: Dr Gunjan Tyagi

Best poster presentation: Dr Matyas Daboczi

Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE) prizes

Best oral presentation: Dr Alain Li

Best poster presentation: Dr Vivek Verma

Postdoc symposium 2020 recording

The recording of the Symposium is available online (log-in required).

Past symposia

  • Postdoc research

Chemical Engineering Postdoc Symposium returns with in-person event

Postdoctoral researchers from the department presented their work at the annual symposium.