Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman is a professor of

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...

at the Department of Chemical Engineering at

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and a

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Early life and education

Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman was raised in

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and relocated to

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in 1988. Adjiman received a master's degree in

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...

from

in 1993. She completed a PhD under Christodoulos A. Floudas at

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in 1998 and her thesis was titled '

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Techniques for

Process Systems Engineering Process engineering is a field of study focused on the development and optimization of industrial processes. It consists of the understanding and application of the fundamental principles and laws of nature to allow humans to transform raw ma ...

' .

Research

In 1998 she joined the faculty at

, where she was awarded a

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fellowship. She was appointed to Senior Lecturer in 2003 and Professor in 2011. She was a visiting professor at the Department of Chemistry at

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between 2007 and 2010. Her research focuses on integrating molecular level decisions into process design, property prediction and optimisation. Her group are developing computer-based process design techniques to improve the process economics as well as the material and energy efficiency. She is considered an expert in engineering molecular systems. Adjiman works with the

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, solid oxide fuel cells and capture. In 2012 she was awarded an

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Leadership Fellowship. She is the Director of Centre for

and is the co-director of the Institute of Molecular Science and Engineering at

. In 2015 she was elected to the

. In 2016 she was elected to the

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. In 2023 she was elected to the USA

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. She is on the editorial board of the journals Molecular

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& Engineering and Fluid Phase Equilibria. She is an Associate Editor for the journals Chemical Engineering Science and Journal of Global Optimization.

Awards

2009 -

Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to cover ...

Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering 2009 -

Research Excellence Award 2011 -

Society of Chemical Industry The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) is a learned society set up in 1881 "to further the application of chemistry and related sciences for the public benefit". Offices The society's headquarters is in Belgrave Square, London. There are semi-in ...

Henry Armstrong Lecture, ''Process Design: Don't Take the Molecules For Granted''

References

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