Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman is a professor of

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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

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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 the understanding and application of the fundamental principles and laws of nature that allow humans to transform raw material and energy into products that are useful to society, at an industrial level. By taking advantage ...

' .

Research

In 1998 she joined the faculty at

, where she was awarded a

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fellowship. She was appointed to

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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

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

. She is on the editorial board of the journals Molecular Systems Design & 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 suppo ...

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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