The IPR is proud to announce that Marzieh Riahinezhad, student member of the IPR, has received the prestigious Chemical Engineering Medal for proficiency in research. For the full story please follow link.
Marzieh Riahinezhad (PhD, Chemical Engineering, September 2015) received the international and extremely prestigious “Best Dissertation of the Year ADIPEC Award” in excellence in energy (November 2015). Marzieh’s PhD thesis was selected by an international scientific panel of 26 judges in the oil and gas industry as one of the top three best dissertations of 2015 in energy, worldwide.
We are pleased to announce that Alison Scott, a member of the IPR, was recently award the 2015 J. Alan George Leadership Award.
Professor Alex Penlidis and Hadi Izadi's research on effective dry adhesive is featured in the latest edition of eWEAL.
Kate Stewart is currently doing her PhD with Professor Penlidis. She received two awards for her research work at two different conferences. One was for the best poster (one of three out of over 65 posters) at the prestigious Polymer Reaction Engineering Conference IX in Cancun, Mexico (May 10-15, 2015). The other was 2nd place overall (out of 60+ posters) in the poster competition at the Annual AU
Congratulations to this year’s recipient of the Certificate in University Teaching Award, Marzieh Riahinezhad (IPR member and Chemical Engineering student)! Marzieh is a PhD student with Professors Alex Penlidis and Neil McManus. Follow link for more details.
Professor Costas Tzoganakis is the recipient of the 2015 Heinz List Award for “Significant Achievements in Polymer Devolatilization and Reactive Processing.” His research on numerous reactive systems using screw extruders was recognized with this award from the Extrusion Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) during the 2015 Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) in Orlando, Florida.
Professor Boxin Zhoa, academic member of the IPR, is developing a glue that may one day be used to engineer human tissues and organs. Read the complete story: Zebra mussel is inspiration for human body super glue.
Pouyan Sardashti (PhD, Chemical Engineering, Feb 2014) receives the prestigious international ‘2014 Borealis Student Innovation Award’.
For more details, see… Borealis Award
Chemical Engineering PhD students Hadi Izadi, Katherine Stewart, and Professor Alexander Penlidis, explain how dry adhesion works in a recent pioneering article in J. Roy. Soc. Interface. For more details, please check: