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Challenges in Designing Sustainable Processes

Traditional process development often goes hand-in-hand with sustainability.

Jessica Whelan

Jessica began her journey in chemical engineering as an undergraduate in the School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering in University College Dublin, Ireland. 

After graduating in 2002, she worked as an engineer for MSD in Ballydine, Ireland for two years before returning to complete a PhD and postdoctoral research in the areas of bioprocessing, PAT and advanced control under Prof. Brian Glennon.  Subsequently, Jessica worked as the Director of Technical Operations for APC, an Irish company providing research services for process development and trouble shooting...Read more

Brian Glennon

Brian Glennon is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in the School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering in University College Dublin. He holds a BE and PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCD. Prior to joining UCD, he worked with Merck in Ireland. Since joining UCD in 1995, his research interests have focused on pharmaceutical process engineering, with particular emphasis on crystallization, bioprocess design and continuous manufacturing. He is a former Principal Investigator in the SSPC, where he led the development of continuous processing research in the centre, and is currently on the...Read more

CCPS 2020 Winter and Spring Highlights

May 11, 2020
May 26, 2020

Catch up on recent CCPS happenings and changes due to COVID-19 in this short summary.  

Martin Roeb

Dr. Martin Roeb holds a diploma in chemistry from the University of Cologne and a doctoral degree in physical chemistry from the same university. Since 1999 he has been working as a scientist, project manager and group leader in DLR’s Solar Research Division in the field of solar high temperature applications. He took over the lead of the team “high temperature solar chemical engineering” in 2010. He has been work package leader and coordinator of several domestic and EU projects on solar high temperature processes and in particular on solar fuels. His research interests address processes...Read more

Chengxiang CX Xiang

Dr. Chengxiang (“CX”) Xiang is a Principal Investigator and Staff Scientist in Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) at California Institute of Technology. Dr. Xiang received his Ph. D in Chemical and Material Physics in University of California, Irvine in 2009 with Prof. Reginald M. Penner. Dr. Xiang was then a Postdoctoral Scholar for Prof. Nate Lewis at the California Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2011. Dr. Xiang research interests include design and fabrication of high efficiency solar-fuel prototypes, high throughput materials discovery, opto-electronic-catalytic...Read more

Matthew Bauer

Matthew develops and manages R&D initiatives for the Solar Energy Technologies Office’s (SETO) Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) program. In this capacity, novel technologies are identified and de-risked to enable widespread deployment of CSP and related thermal systems. Matthew has been with SETO since 2015 developing initiatives including grid firming thermal energy storage, Gen 3 CSP, particle based solar thermal technologies, sCO2 power cycle development,  solar thermal desalination, and novel metrology for CSP. Matthews research background is in the field of microscale...Read more

Bhima Sastri

Dr. Bhima Sastri is the Director of Integrated Carbon Management in the Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy.  He is currently leading an effort across several government agencies to repurpose and transition fossil assets to meet administration goals to decarbonize the Electric sector. In addition, he overlooks R&D funding for several technology areas including the Supercritical CO2 program, Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDEAS), and several crosscutting programs such as the University Turbine Research (UTR) program and the Historically Black...Read more

Ellen Stechel

Ellen B Stechel is Co-Director, ASU LightWorksÒ; Professor of Practice, School of Molecular Sciences; and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University (ASU.) Her career has afforded her opportunities to build and/or coordinate research programs at a national laboratory, industry, a U.S. government agency, and now in higher education at ASU; in both basic and applied research; policy and commercialization of emerging technologies; and in multi-disciplinary R&D strategy and management. She has held and holds numerous...Read more

Alex K. Shalek

Alex K. Shalek is currently the Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Associate Professor at MIT, as well as a Core Member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an Associate Professor of Chemistry, and an Extramural Member of The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.  He is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute, an Associate Member of the Ragon Institute, an Assistant in Immunology at MGH, and an Instructor in Health Sciences and Technology at HMS.  His research is directed towards the creation and implementation of new approaches to...Read more

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