Nanostructured carbon membranes for breakthrough filtration applications: advancing the science, engineering and design

Dr Davide Mattia, University of Bath, UK

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Davide Mattia is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Bath, UK. He obtained a MEng degree in Materials Engineering in 2002 from the University ‘Federico II’ of Naples, Italy, and a PhD in Materials Engineering from Drexel University, PA, USA, in 2007. In 2008 he joined the University of Bath as a Lecturer and in 2010 he was awarded a 5-year UK Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship.

His research group (www.bath.ac.uk/nanotech) is focused on the use of nanotechnology for environmental applications, from water treatment to green manufacturing to carbon dioxide utilization. His interest in carbon membranes is on the fabrication of hybrid anodic alumina – carbon nanotube membranes, and on the fundamental understanding of the effects of nanoscale confinement on fluid flow inside nanotubes.

Professor Jason Reese, FREng FRSE, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Professor Jason M Reese FREng FRSE is the Regius Professor of Engineering in the University of Edinburgh. Following research positions at the Technische Universitaet Berlin and the University of Cambridge, he became a Lecturer in the University of Aberdeen, and then Lecturer and ExxonMobil Engineering Fellow in King's College London. He moved to the University of Strathclyde in 2003 as the Weir Professor of Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics, and was latterly Head of the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. In 2013 he was appointed to the Regius Professorship in Edinburgh University, the ninth incumbent of this position since it was established by Queen Victoria in 1868. His research interests focus on theoretical and computational multiscale fluid dynamics, in particular for simulating micro- and nano-scale flows. Jason Reese is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Institute of Physics.

Dr Duncan Lockerby, University of Warwick, UK

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Duncan Lockerby is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Fluid Dynamics Research Centre at the University of Warwick, where he has been since 2006. His research interests lie in: multiscale modelling; microfluids and nanofluids; microscale (rarefied) gas dynamics; flow control and drag reduction; and biological fluid mechanics. 

2013 - Reader, University of Warwick

2008-2013 Associate Professor, University of Warwick

2006-2008 Assistant Professor, University of Warwick

2004-2006 Lecturer, Brunel University

2001-2004 Research Fellow, King's College London

1998-2001 Research Assistant (\PhD student), University of Warwick

Professor David Emerson, Daresbury Laboratory, UK

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David Emerson obtained his PhD from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Manchester and joined Daresbury Laboratory in 1990 and has been instrumental in developing the role of High Performance Computing (HPC) for Engineering. He leads the Computational Engineering & Environment Group which is part of STFC’s Scientific Computing Department.

He is a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University and has more than 100 published papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including Physics of Fluids, Parallel Computing, Lab on a Chip, Physical Review E, Europhysics Letters, and Continuum Mechanics & Thermodynamics. Emerson’s research interests currently include: understanding non-equilibrium and rarefied flow phenomena and the correct treatment of solid boundaries, design of efficient fluidic transport networks based on principles inspired by nature, micro- and nano-fluidics, free-surface flows, transport of droplets, high-speed compressible flows, and addressing the challenges of petascale and exascale HPC.

Dr Ben Corry, The Australian National University, Australia

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Ben Corry graduated with a PhD in Physics from the Australian National University, before taking up an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and subsequent Research Fellowship at the University of Western Australia. Here In 2005 he won the Young Biophysicist Award from the Australian Society for Biophysics and was awarded the 2008 Young Scientist of the Year at the West Australian Premier's Science Awards. In 2011 Ben won a Young Tall Poppy Science Award before moving back to the Australian National University at the start of 2012. In 2013 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. His research involves studying the fundamental aspects of biological ion channel function, including mechanisms of ion selectivity and gating, using a range of computational and fluorescence techniques. In addition he has been designing biomimetic porous membranes for water filtration and desalination.