Faculty of Sciences and Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences Catalytic Research Prof. Chris Hardacre School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science [email protected]

Chris Hardacre is Head of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science and of Chemical Engineering, with research interests in heterogeneous catalysis, in-situ method development and ionic liquids. He has 350+ publications with an H-index of 65 and over 15,000 citations. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Fellow of Royal Society of . He has a number of awards including the inaugural Andrew Medal for catalysis and has won ~£28M research grant over the past 20 years.

We are a world-leading research group working on heterogeneous catalysis and ionic liquids. We have developed a number of state-of-the-art techniques for in- situ monitoring of the systems studied and have strong links with industry. We target applications in energy, bulk, fine and pharmaceutical chemical synthesis as well as environmental protection:

•Non-thermal plasma catalysis. ACS Catal., 2015, 5 956; 2014, 4, 666; •Neutron and X-ray scattering studies of catalysts and ionic liquids, Chem. Sci., 2013, 4, 3484; 2013, 4, 1270; 2011, 2, 1594; •Activating gold catalysts. ACS Catal., 2012, 2, 552; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 8912; JACS, 2009, 131, 6973; •Electrochemical reduction of CO2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 14164.(Hot paper); Sustainable Industrial Systems (SIS) Research Group Professor Adisa Azapagic, Dr Laurence Stamford and Dr Rosa Cuéllar-Franca School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Adisa Azapagic FREng FIChemE FRSC FRSA HonFSE is Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering, with research interests in life cycle sustainability assessment, carbon footprinting, sustainable production and consumption, and corporate sustainability. She has over 100 publications – including three books, one of which has been translated into Chinese – with an H- index of 35 and over 5229 citations. She has received many prestigious awards for her research achievements and has won over £12 million in research grants over the past 10 years.

We are a world-leading research group working on identifying sustainability solutions for industrial systems on a life cycle basis. The group currently has 20 international researchers and PhD students. Our work covers different sectors and supply chains, including: • Energy systems (e.g. Energ Techn., 2014, 2, 1012; Appl Energ., 2015, 155, 393; Energ Policy, 2016, 93, 168) • Food and drink (e.g. Int J Life Cycle Ass., 2016, 21, 492; J Clean Prod., 2016, 112, 214) • Carbon capture and utilisation (e.g. Energ Environ Sci., 2015, 8, 1775; Discuss., 2016, in press)

Laurence Stamford is a Lecturer in Sustainable Chemical Engineering. His research interests include energy sources (nuclear, fossil and renewable), energy storage, recycling systems and alternative food production techniques. Laurence graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 and received his PhD from The in 2012.

Rosa Cuéllar-Franca is a Lecturer in Sustainable Chemical Engineering with research interests in carbon capture and utilisation technologies and circular economy. She received her BSc from Technological Institute of Tijuana in 2007 and PhD from The University of Manchester in 2013. Manchester and Research Group Professor Aline Miller School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science and Institute of [email protected]

Aline Miller is Director of Research for The School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science and Professor of Biomolecular Materials, with research interests that lie at the life- science interface. She has over 100 publication, is co-author on 4 patents and has won ~£11M research grants over the past 10 years. The technology developed in her group is currently licensed out to a company that she co-founded in 2014.

We are a world-leading research group working on understanding how to engineer advanced platform soft materials by applying physical principles to mimic, manipulate and improve biomolecular self-assembly. Our work is highly interdisciplinary and we regularly collaborate with , physicists, medics, cell and synthetic biologists. We have a strong focus on the translational aspects of our research and regularly work with large multinationals and SMEs. Current projects include: • for cardiovascular applications (Biomacromolecules., 2013, 14, 1403) • Functional hydrogels for 3D cell culture (Langmuir, 2016, 32, 4917) • Biosensor Devices for early Disease Detection (Chem Comm, 2016, 6697) • Injectable Materials for Targeted Drug Delivery (J. Pep. Sci., 2014, 20, 578) Advanced Materials Engineering Research Group Professor Rahul Raveendran Nair School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science & National Graphene Institute [email protected]

R. R. Nair is a Professor of Materials Physics and holds a prestigious Royal Society Fellowship. The main scope of his research is the novel synthesis and construction of application-oriented devices based on two-dimensional (2D) crystals and their modifications. He has published over 40 highly cited peer- refereed research articles, including four Science, two , one Nature Physics, one Nature Nanotechnology, and five Nature Communications during the last nine years. His awards include a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, UK, IUPAP Young scientist Award (2014) from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the Moseley Medal and Prize (2015) from the Institute of Physics.

His group is a world-leading research group in 2D materials based membranes and well-known both within and outside of the 2D materials community, which is confirmed by keynote and invited talks, lectures, invited seminars and media interviews (BBC, Reuters, etc.). His graphene based membrane research (Science 2012 & 2014) attracted interest and investment from various industries. So far his graphene based membrane research secured more than £7M funding in collaboration with large industrial companies. Our current research projects are developing novel membranes for water filtration, Organic solvent nanofiltration, gas separation, barrier coating applications and proton conducting membranes for fuel cells. Process Integration Research Group Professor Robin Smith School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science [email protected]

Professor Robin Smith is Director of the Centre for Process Integration. He is also President of Process Integration Limited, a spin-out company from the University. He has extensive industrial experience and has acted extensively as a consultant to industry. He has published widely in the field of process integration and is author of “Chemical Process Design and Integration”, published by Wiley. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. The Centre for Process Integration, within the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at The University of Manchester, is a world leader in the field of process design and integration. The Centre enjoys an outstanding international reputation for the quality of its research gained from many years of successful research and technology transfer. Key to this successful relationship is the Process Integration Research Consortium, which was founded in 1984, has in membership major companies representing different interests in and aspects of the process industries. Research projects of the group include:

• Design and optimization of • Distillation system design cogeneration and site utility systems • Refinery distillation systems • Distributed energy systems • Refinery optimisation • Design and retrofit of heat • Decarbonised energy production exchanger networks • Biomass for the production of • Fouling in heat exchanger networks energy and chemicals • Sub-ambient separation systems • Flue gas emissions The Engineering Molecules, Particles and Processes (EMPAP) Group School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Professor Roger Davey, Dr Thomas Vetter, Dr Aurora Cruz-Cabeza [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Our research group is internationally renowned for connecting the fundamentals of crystallization with the properties of particulate products and devising efficient processes for their manufacture. The group currently has 15 international researchers and is equipped with state-of- the-art instrumentation for materials characterisation and process analytics.

Professor Roger Davey is internationally renowned for his work on crystal polymorphism, growth and nucleation, as well as solution chemistry. His research has close connections to the practice of crystallization and formulation in the pharmaceutical industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He authored 240 publications with an H-index of 50, gathering over 8,200 citations. His research has attracted more than £7M over the last 10 years.

Dr Thomas Vetter was appointed Lecturer in Chemical Engineering in September 2014. He is known for his simulation and experimental work on crystallization processes. He is the recipient of the 2012 Eli Lilly Innovation Fellowship Award (LIFA), 2014 EFCE Excellence in Crystallization Award, and was recently awarded a research fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering. He authored 20 publications with an H-index of 10, gathering over 300 citations. His research attracted more than £1M since Sept. 2014.

Dr Aurora Cruz-Cabeza is a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester since January 2016. Her interests include finding quantitative relationships linking crystal structure with product properties. She received a VENI talent scheme award in 2011 and conducted further postdoctoral stays at the CCDC and with Roche. She authored 40 publications with an H-index of 17, gathering over 1,300 citations. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Chemistry Molecular Machines Research Group Professor David Leigh FRS School of Chemistry [email protected]

David Leigh, Royal Society Research Professor and Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, is one of the world’s leading supramolecular chemists with a world class track record in the field of synthetic molecular machine systems. More than half of the papers produced by the Leigh group since 2000 were published in Nature (6), Science (5), PNAS (4), Nature Chem/Mater/Nanotech (8), and Angew Chem/JACS (80), resulting in an H-index of 66 and over 16,000 citations. Leigh has received numerous national and international awards, including the Izatt- Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry; Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology and EU Descartes Prize for Research. He was elected FRS in 2009.

Over the past 25 years the Leigh group have produced some of the most influential and transformative examples of synthetic molecular motors and machines. Current research themes include: • Molecular motors (Nature 2016, 534, 235; Nature 2007, 445, 523). • Molecular knots (Science 2016, 352, 1555; JACS 2015, 137, 10437; ACIE 2015, 54, 7555; Nature Chem. 2014, 6, 978; Nature Chem. 2012, 4, 15) • Molecular robotics (Nature Chem. 2016, 8, 138; Science 2013, 339, 189) • Molecular machines for catalysis (JACS 2015, 137, 7656; Chem Sci, 2015, 6, 140; JACS 2014, 136, 15775; JACS 2014, 136, 4905) • Molecular ‘walkers’ (JACS 2014, 136, 2094; Nature Chem. 2010, 2, 96) • Catenanes and rotaxanes (ACIE 2015, 54, 6110; Science 2010, 328, 1255; Nature 2009, 458, 314)

Manchester NMR Methodology Group Professor Gareth Morris FRS and Dr Mathias Nilsson School of Chemistry [email protected]

Gareth Morris is a Professor of Physical Chemistry and former Deputy Head of the School of Chemistry, with research interests in liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. He has over 220 publications, with an h-index of 46 and over 10,000 citations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has received numerous awards for research achievement; recent examples include the Russell Varian Prize (2011) and the James N Shoolery Award (2015).

We are world leaders in the development of new techniques in liquid-state NMR spectroscopy, with applications in chemistry, life sciences and medicine. Almost all current commercial NMR equipment makes use of developments originating in our work. We operate as a small collaborative group of around ten researchers; we currently have members from seven different countries. The School of Chemistry is very well-equipped for NMR, with over a dozen superconducting spectrometers. Our current research includes “pure shift” methods for simplifying complex spectra (J. Am. Chem Soc. 2014, 136, 11867; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 6990), methods for measuring coupling constants in crowded spectra (Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 15410; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1090) and diffusion-ordered NMR methods for mixture analysis (Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 6892). Mathias Nilsson is a Reader in Physical Chemistry with research interests in magnetic resonance. He has 73 publications with an h-index of 25 and over 1600 citations. He received the BRSG/NMRDG Award for Excellent Contribution to Magnetic Resonance by an Early Career Researcher in 2010, and was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow from 2007 to 2012. Novel Routes to Functional Materials as: Thin Films, Mesocrystals or Nanodimensional Particulates Paul O’Brien CBE FRS The Schools of Chemistry and Materials [email protected]

Paul O’Brien is Professor of Inorganic Materials in the Schools of Chemistry and of Materials. He has over 620 publications with an H-index of 63 and over 17,800 citations. He is a Fellow of: The Royal Society, IUPAAC, The European Academy of Sciences and the Learned Society of Wales, recognised as both a Scientist and Engineer: FRSC C.Chem. and FIoM3 C.Eng. He has awards for: Chemistry, Materials and Outreach activities and 4 honorary degrees. He has supervised over 10 Chinese students to higher degrees and is a frequent visitor to China and a visiting Professor at Nanjing University of Technology The group work at the interface of chemistry and and are especially interest-ed in the processing of functional materials by novel, atom efficient routes. The group usually includes at least 10 different nationalities. There are extensive international collaborations. Our materials target a wide range of important and topical applications, including: • Meso Crystals(a), J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 1309. • Catalysis ZnO(a): J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 15106. Au: Nano Lett.(b) 2014; 14; 1921. • Quantum dots for solar cells. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (b) 2010, 32, 2743. Small(b) 2015, 11, 1548. J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 15086. • Rare Earth Emitters(b), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130; 5710. • Magnetic Nanoparticles(b), J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 17256. • Lubricants(a,b) Chem. Mater., 2015, 27, 1367-1374. (a) Chinese co-author; (b) international co-author(s) Manchester Framework Material (MFM) Research Group Professor Martin Schröder and Dr Sihai Yang School of Chemistry [email protected]; [email protected]

Martin Schröder is Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science and Professor of Chemistry, with research interests in synthetic coordination and materials chemistry. He has 470 publications with an H-index of 70 and over 20,000 citations. He is a Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has received many prestigious awards for his research achievements and has won ~£24M research grant over the past 10 years. We are a world-leading research group working on functional framework materials. The group currently has 25 international researchers and is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentations for materials characterisation. We have strong links to National Facilities and target on a wide range of energy applications, including: • Hydrogen, methane and fuel storage (Nature Chem., 2009, 1, 487; JACS, 2016, in press) • Carbon capture and storage (Nature Mater., 2012, 11, 710; Nature Chem., 2012, 4, 887) • Capture and removal of toxic gas (JACS, 2013, 135, 4954; Adv. Mater. 2016, in press) • Hydrocarbon separations (Nature Chem., 2015, 7, 121) • Proton conductivity (JACS, 2016, 138, 6352) • High pressure crystallography (Angew. Chem. 2013, 52, 5093) • Catalysis (Nat. Comm., 2016, 11162)

Sihai Yang is a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry with research interests in materials chemistry. He received his BSc from Peking University in 2007 and PhD from University of Nottingham in 2011. He has 60 publications with an H-index of 23 and over 2,000 citations. at Manchester Professor Robert Dryfe School of Chemistry [email protected]

Robert Dryfe is a Professor of Physical Chemistry. His expertise is in the general area of electrochemistry: he has two current research themes, (i) electrochemistry of 2d materials – including applications of these materials in energy storage (e.g. supercapacitors) and (ii) the electrochemistry of the organic/water interface. c His research group works with international and UK collaborators: he leads a major research programme on graphene-based electrochemical energy storage. He has published in excess of 160 papers (see recent highlights below) and is co-inventor on numerous patents relating to electrochemical production and applications of graphene

Recent publications:

• Electrochemistry and photo-electrochemistry of MoS2 (Nano Lett., 2016, 16, 2023) • Alignment of composite 2D materials at the organic/water interface (Advanced Materials., in press) • 2D materials as proton transfer membranes (collaboration with A. Geim, Physics, Manchester: Nature, 2014, 516, 227.) • Proton/deuterium separation using 2D materials (also in collaboration with A. Geim: Science, 2016, 351, 68.) • Elucidation of mechanism of Au nanoparticle synthesis (in collaboration with A. Uehara, Kyoto, Japan: J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 15135). Professor Sabine L Flitsch MIB & School of Chemistry [email protected] [http://flitschlab.com/]

Sabine Flitsch is currently Professor of Chemical Biology at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and the School of Chemistry, where she is Deputy Head. She has over 25 years of research experience in biological chemistry at the Universities of Oxford, MIT and Edinburgh. She has led a number of networks in the area of glycoscience and is currently the Director of BBSRC Network IBCarb (www.ibcarb.com). Sabine has received a number of awards (Royal Society Wolfson Merit award; RSC Interdisciplinary Prize) and is member of the Council of Royal Society of Chemistry.

The overall aim of our work is to use interdisciplinary approaches to invent chemical, biochemical and analytical tools to understand biological structure and mechanism and then use our knowledge for applications in biotechnology (Nature Chem. Bio., 2015, 11, 378). A major focus is the application of for the synthesis of bioactive compounds: we have recently reported the first formal C-H amination (Angew. Chem. 2016, 55, 1511), enzymatic peptide synthesis on solid support (Angew. Chem. 2012, 51, 13016) and several glycosylation reactions (JACS, 2012, 134, 13010; JACS, 2011, 133, 8436; JACS, 2012, 134, 4521). The complexity of biomolecules, in particular carbohydrates and glycoconjugates, requires state-of-the-art analytical tools. We have established a glycoarray platform for studying glycoenzyme function. In collaboration with the Michael Barber Centre (Prof Perdita Barran) we are currently establishing hyphenated -ion mobility techniques for the high resolution sequencing of carbohydrates (Nature Chem., 2014, 6, 65). Professor Nikolas Kaltsoyannis School of Chemistry [email protected] http://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/kaltsoyannisgroup/

Nik Kaltsoyannis is Professor and Head of Computational Chemistry, and Co-Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research. His research interests centre on the computational quantum chemistry of molecular and extended solid compounds from throughout the periodic table, with particular focus on the f elements. He has c. 150 publications with an h-index of 35. In addition to his fundamental research, he works on problems of relevance to the nuclear industry, from which he receives significant funding.

Nik Kaltsoyannis is a world expert on the electronic structure of the f elements. His research group currently has about a dozen international researchers (China, Sweden, Spain, Cyprus, Hungary, UK) and uses a wide range of computational platforms, from local resources through to national facilities. He has strong links with colleagues in the US National Lab system, most notably at Los Alamos. Recent research highlights include: • Novel neptunium organometallic complexes (Nature Chem., 2016, doi:10.1038/nchem.2520) • Metal-metal bonding in uranium-group 10 complexes (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 3333) • Pressure-induced uranium C-H agostic bonds (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 6735) • Thorium-ligand multiple bonds (Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 3891) • Stable GaX2, InX2 and TlX2 radicals (Nature Chem., 2014, 6, 315) • Acyclic two-coordinate silylenes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 568) • Chalcogenido-substituted analogues of the uranyl ion (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 5352) Synthetic Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry Group Professor Steve Liddle and Dr David Mills School of Chemistry [email protected] & [email protected]

Steve Liddle is Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry and Co-Director, Centre for Radiochemistry Research. He has 150 publications (H-index = 37, >3,800 citations). He is Vice President, European Rare Earth and Actinide Society, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, and currently holds an ESPRC Established Career Fellowship. He has received many prestigious prizes and awards for his research achievements, including ERC Starter and Consolidator grants, and a Royal Society Research Fellowship, and he has won ~£8M of research grants over the past 9 years.

We are a world-leading research group working on lanthanide and actinide chemistry. The group currently has 26 researchers and boasts state-of-the-art facilities for lanthanide and actinide chemistry with strong links to national facilities and collaborators worldwide. Our work targets a wide range of cutting-edge f-element chemistry, including: • Electronic structure quantification (Nature Comm., in press). • Terminal uranium nitrides for UN fuel (Science 2012, 337, 717; Nature Chem. 2013, 5, 482). • Metal-ligand multiple bonding (Nature Chem. 2015, 7, 582). • Recyclable small molecule activation (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2012, 109, 9265). • Arene chemistry (Nature Comm. 2013, 4, 2323). • Nanomagnetism (Nature Chem. 2011, 3, 454).

David Mills is a recently appointed Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. He received his MChem from in 2004 and PhD from Monash University in 2008. He has over 50 publications with an H-index of 25 and over 1,440 citations. Synthetic Organic Chemistry Research Group Professor David Procter School of Chemistry [email protected]

David Procter is a Professor of Organic Chemistry with research interests in method development and target total synthesis. He has 130 publications with an H-index of 37. He is an EPSRC Established Career Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has received additional prestigious awards for his research achievements including the Bader Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014), the Liebig Lectureship from the German Chemical Society (2014), and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2013).

As world-leaders in synthesis, our group of 18 international researchers are addressing challenges in medicine (antibacterial resistance), energy (novel organic materials), and sustainability (metal-free synthesis and low-cost metal catalysis), through studies in the following areas:

• Radical cyclization cascades for molecular complexity generation (JACS, 2016, in press; Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48, 1263; JACS, 2014, 136, 8459; JACS 2014, 136, 2268; JACS, 2013, 135, 15702; Angew. Chem. 2013, 52, 12559; JACS, 2012, 134, 12751; Nature Protocol 2012, 7, 970). • Metal-free C–H cross-coupling & low-cost copper catalysis (Angew. Chem. 2016, in press; JACS 2016, 138, 790; Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 1281; Angew. Chem. 2016, 55, 1102; Angew. Chem. 2013, 52, 4008). • Total synthesis of bioactive natural and unnatural products (Cancer Cell, 2015, 28, 129; Chem. -Eur. J. 2013, 19, 6718; Angew. Chem. 2009, 48, 9315; Angew. Chem. 2008, 47, 5631) Manchester Institute of Biotechnology: Engineering and Synthetic Biology Group. Professor Nigel Scrutton School of Chemistry [email protected] Nigel Scrutton is Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), Director of the Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SYNBIOCHEM) and Professor of Enzyme in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Manchester. He has interests in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, enzyme engineering and enzyme mechanisms/structure He has 370 publications with an H-index of 52 and a number of patents, and is Director of the spinout company C3 Biotech Ltd. He has received many prestigious awards and has won ~£35M current research grants. He holds a visiting professorship at , Beijing, China. We are a world-leading research group working on enzyme structures/mechanisms and synthetic biology/metabolic engineering. The group currently has 40 international researchers and is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation for enzyme and metabolic engineering. We have strong links to National and International Facilities and we have established a world leading centre for enzyme and synthetic biology in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology: • Enzyme H transfer (Nature Chem., 2012, 4, 161; JACS, 2016, in press) • Biocatalysis (Science., 2015, 349, 6255; JACS, 2016, 138, 1033) • Enzyme mechanisms and engineering (Nature Commun, 2042, 4, 4395) • Enzyme structures and mechanism (Nature, 2015, 522, 502; Nature 2015, 522, 497) • and drug discovery (Nature, 2013, 496, 382) • Light activated proteins (Nature, 2013, 495, E3-E5; Nature Communs 2015, 6, 7907) • Metabolic engineering (Angew. Chem. 2016, in press; ACS Synth Biol 2015 4, 1112) Biocatalysis and Synthetic Biology Professor Nicholas J. Turner School of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology [email protected]

Nicholas Turner is Professor of Chemical Biology, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Biocatalysis (CoEBio3) and co-Director of SYNBIOCHEM. His research interests are in biocatalysis, of enzymes and synthetic biology. He has published 250 papers/patents with an H-index of 46 and over 9,000 citations. He is a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards and consults widely. He has received many awards for his research achievements. His current grant funding is >£10M.

The Turner group is at the forefront of research aimed at creating new enzymes for application as biocatalysts for chemical synthesis. We employ both and directed evolution methods in order to develop biocatalysts with tailored properties such high stereoselectivity, improved activity and enhanced stability. These biocatalysts have been applied to the synthesis of a range of target molecules especially pharmaceuticals: • Alcohols to amines via biocatalytic ‘hydrogen borrowing’ (Science, 2015, 349, 1525) • Cascade reactions (Angew Chem, 2014, 53, 2447; Nature Chem, 2013, 5, 93) • Biocatalytic retrosynthesis (Nature Chem Biol, 2013, 9, 285; Angew Chem, 2015, 54, 14133) • Directed evolution of biocatalysts (Angew Chem, 2016, 55, in press; Nature Chem Biol, 2009, 5, 567) • Deracemisation of amines (Angew Chem, 2014, 53, 3731; JACS, 2013, 135, 10863) • Asymmetric alkene amination (JACS, 2015, 137, 12977; Angew Chem, 2015, 54, 4608) • Biocatalysis using synthetic biology (Angew Chem, 2016, 55, 1511; PNAS, 2013, 110, 87) • HTS of biocatalysts (Angew Chem, 2014, 53, 10714; Nature Biotech, 2004, 22, 1133) Molecular Magnetism Research Group Richard Winpenny and School of Chemistry [email protected]; [email protected] Richard Winpenny is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, with research interests in coordination chemistry and nanoscience. He has > 340 publi-cations with an h-index of 63 and over 14,800 citations. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Prestigious awards include a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2009-2014), the RSC Tilden Medal (2011) and RSC Ludwig Mond Medal (2016), RSC Emerging Technologies Prize for Materials (2016). Major International Joint Research Project of NSFC with Prof Ming-Liang Tong (Sun Yat-Sen University, 3.5 million Yuan) The molecular magnetism group (www.molmag.manchester.ac.uk) are world-leaders in their field, covering areas such as single molecule magnets and being the main drivers behind use of molecular spins for quantum computing. The group is also uniquely well-equipped and features the UK National EPR Facility. • First hybrid organic-inorganic rotaxanes (Nature, 2009, 458, 314) and development of arrays of n-rotaxanes for quantum computing (Nature Commun. 2016, 7, 10240 & 11377) • First measured coherence times in molecular magnets (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 057201 ) • First direct measure of Dy…Dy exchange interactions (Nature Commun. 2014, 5, 5243) • Very high energy barriers for magnetic relaxation in dysprosium single molecule magnets (Nature Chem. 2013, 5, 673, Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 155) • Direct measure of spin dynamics by 4D-INS (Nature Physics 2012, 8, 906 )

Eric McInnes is a Professor in Inorganic Chemistry with research interests in magnetic materials and EPR spectroscopy. He has published 240 publications with an h-index of 46. In 2015 he won the International EPR Society Prize for Chemistry for his work on exchange-coupled systems. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Science Advanced Processor Technologies Professor Stephen Furber CBE, FRS, FREng School of Computer Science [email protected]

Steve Furber leads the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group at Manchester. He completed his formal education at the , and in the 1980s was principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32- bit RISC microprocessor. Over 75 billion variants of the ARM processor have been manufactured, powering most of the world's mobile/embedded computing.

Fellow of Royal Society Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering IET Faraday Medal Fellow of Institute of Engineering & Technology BCS Lovelace Medal Fellow of IEEE 2010 Millennium Technology Prize Laureate Distinguished Fellow of British Computer Society 2013 IEEE Computer Society Pioneer

Steve leads Manchester’s research into asynchronous and low-power systems and, more recently, neural systems engineering, where the SpiNNaker project is delivering a computer with a million ARM processors optimised for brain modelling applications, under the €1B EU ICT Flagship Human Brain Project.

The Advanced Processor Technologies group is a world-renowned team of 70+ researchers studying all aspects of microprocessor architecture and architectural support software, including many-core systems, networks-on-chip, systems-on-chip, run-time systems and brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing. The group is involved in several UK- and EU-funded projects, and has strong links with industry including ARM Ltd, Oracle, and, more recently, Huawei. Advanced Processor Technologies Professor Stephen Furber CBE, FRS, FREng [email protected]

Dr Antoniu Pop

Royal Academy of Engineering 5 year Research Fellowship

Energy efficient computing.

Parallel systems, energy efficiency. Big Data technologies.

Square Kilometer Array 27 partner countries, international HQ at Manchester Generates 1 exabyte per day. Information Management Group Professor Carole Goble CBE, FREng, FBCS School of Chemistry [email protected]

Carole Goble leads the Information Management Group at Manchester. She has led major European projects for over 25 years, and has a h-index of 70, from over 500 peer-reviewed papers, with almost 20,000 citations. She is founder of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute, and currently leads a team of 50 researchers across a diverse range of activities, with over £25m of funding.

Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering Inaugural Jim Gray e-Science Award Fellow of British Computer Society Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Head of the UK node of the 20-Nation pan-EU Research Infrastructure for Life Science Data (ELIXIR) and co-leads its Interoperability work-stream, and coordinates the pan-EU FAIRDOM initiative for supporting the data management of integrative biology projects.

Carole's leads the IMG group, with activities around the exchange of knowledge, data and service interoperability and the reproducibility of research. Her research combines distributed e-infrastructure, computational workflows, semantic technologies (Linked Data), (meta)data approaches, and social engineering to deliver production level services and software for data- driven scientific analytics and sharing scientific assets. Her work is multi-disciplinary, particularly working in the Life Sciences, chemistry and scholarly communication.

Information Management Group Professor Carole Goble CBE, FREng, FBCS [email protected]

Dr Caroline Jay

Senior Lecturer

Smart Cities, People & Computing Systems

Dec 3rd 2015 “Manchester wins £10m prize to become world leader in ‘smart city’ technology” Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Earth, Atmospheric & Analytical Science Manchester Geomicrobiology Research Group Professor Jon Lloyd School of Earth and Environmental Science [email protected] Jon Lloyd is Professor of Geomicrobiology and Director of the cross-disciplinary Williamson Research Centre for Molecular Environmental Science. He has published more than 200 publications, has an H-index of 50 and over 10,000 citations. His research into geomicrobiological processes have attracted awards including the Geological Society of London Bigsby Medal (2006), Science Council Top 100 Practicing UK Scientists (2014), Royal Society Industrial Fellowship (2010-2014) and Wolfson Merit Award (2015-2020). He has won >£15M research funding.

We are a world-leading, multidisciplinary geomicrobiology group of 30 international researchers working at the interface between biology and the geosciences. Based in the Williamson Research Centre we benefit from recently refurbished state of the art laboratories for microbiology, molecular ecology, organic/inorganic geochemistry and mineral characterisation. We apply the latest imaging, spectroscopic and genomic techniques to topics including : • Resource biorecovery & nanomaterial biosynthesis (ACS Catalysis., 2011, 1 1589; Curr Op Biotech., 2011, 22 509; J.Royal Soc. Interface, 2015, 12, 2015024; ACS Nano, 2010, 4 2577) • Bioremediation (Env. Sci & Technol., 2015, 49, 11070; Appl. Cat. B: Environ., 2015 170, 162 ) • Microbiology of energy systems; nuclear, oil and gas, clean-energy (Fuel in press; Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5133, Env. Sci & Technol., 2015, 48, 13549) • Metal biogeochemistry and water quality (Nature, 2004, 430 68, Science, 2006, 314, 1687, Env Microbiol., 2014, 17, 1857-1869)

Manchester Shale Reservoir Characterisation Research Professor Kevin G. Taylor School of Earth and Environmental Science [email protected]

Kevin Taylor is Professor of Sedimentary Geoscience and Head of the School of Earth and Environmental Science. He has published more than 70 publications, and has supervised >35 PhD students, including Chinese CSC students and visitors. His research into mudstones, petroleum source rocks and shale reservoirs has attracted key note invitations and awards (most recently the AAPG Braunstein Award, 2015).

Prof Taylor has been instrumental in integrating field- and basin-scale observations with pore-scale analysis, with significant implications for predicting shale and sandstone reservoir properties. His recent and current research has integrated multi-scale sedimentological and diagenetic analysis in major mudstone successions and shale-gas reservoirs in Europe and the USA. He is currently coordinating research in shale-reservoir structure using high-resolution X-ray CT scanning and mechanical analysis of shales, with links to petrophysical data.

Peer-reviewed manuscripts in Science, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Environmental Science and Technology, AAPG Bulletin, Applied Geochemistry, Marine Chemistry. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electrical Energy and Power Systems Professor Jovica V. Milanović School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering [email protected] Jovica is Professor of Electrical Power Engineering, Deputy Head of School and Director of External Affairs and Business Engagement in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Manchester, UK , Visiting Professor at the University of Novi Sad, and University of Belgrade, Serbia and Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia

He has over 420 publications (including 82 in IEEE Transactions, and 5 CIGRE Technical Brochures of which 2 as Convenor of CIGRE WGs) )with an H=33, I =100 and over 4,200 citations. He was/is chairman of 4 international conferences and editor or member of editorial/technical boards of 60+ international journals and conferences, He has generated ~£14M of research grant for his work in power system dynamics and power quality. He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK, Foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Engineering Sciences, Fellow of IET, Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished IEEE PES Lecturer and currently serves on IEEE PES Governing Board as Regional Representative for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

His research group currently includes 16 people working on the wide range of EU and EPSRC funded projects in the following areas: Probabilistic modelling and analysis of uncertain and complex interconnected systems; Risk based stability assessment and control of power systems; Close to real time assessment of power system dynamic behaviour; Application of Data Analytics to power systems; Global assessment/mitigation of; Power Quality in sparsely monitored networks; Power system demand profiling. Electronic Materials, Devices and Sensors (EMDS) Group Professor Mo Missous FREng School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering [email protected] Mohamed Missous is Professor of Semiconductor Materials and Devices and has interests in ultra fast Quantum Mechanical Tunnel devices and ultra sensitive Quantum Well Hall Effect sensors. He has over 230 publications with an H-index of 32 and over 3,100 citations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institute pf Physics and Fellow of the IET. He has received many prestigious awards for his research achievements, including a Royal Society Brian Mercer award for innovation in 2015 and has won over £12M research grant over the past 10 years. http://www.eee.manchester.ac.uk/our-research/research-groups/sisp/research-areas/emds/

We have expertise in Molecular Beam Epitaxy of high speed InP devices, low temperature THz materials and sub-millimetre wave Resonant Tunnelling Devices. The team has a long history of studying the manufacturability of quantum mechanical tunnel based devices and technology transfer that have led to successful commercialisation by e2V ltd of 77GHz Gunn diodes for autonomous Cruise Control (ACC) systems in BMW and Audi cars and GaAs photoconductive switches for spectroscopy systems We leads an STFC, Innovate UK and EPSRC programmes in 2DEG Quantum Well Hall Sensors for Non Destructive Testing Our research targets a wide range of advanced materials and communication related applications, including: • Quantum Encryption, (Nature Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 16456 (2015) • THz electronic devices, (IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 61, no. 7 (2014) 2338-2342) • Graphene/GaAs interfaces (Carbon Vol 96, January 2016, Pages 83–90 • Graphene under stress, (Carbon Vol 91, September 2015, Pages 266–274) • Generation and Detection of THz radiation, (IEEE THz Science and Technology, Vol2,6, pp617 622) • Manufacturability of device, (IEEE Electron Device Letters 36,6 (2015) 543-545) Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Materials Manchester Composite Systems Investigation (CSI) Research Group Professor Constantinos Soutis FREng and Dr Matthieu Gresil School of Materials [email protected] and [email protected]

Constantinos Soutis is Director of the Aerospace Research Institute and Director of the Northwest Composites Centre with research interests in aerospace composite materials and structures. He is the author or co-author of over 450 archived articles, which include 250 ISI listed journal papers with an H-index of 43 and close to 7,000 citations. He is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He has received several prestigious awards for his research achievements and over the last five years an estimated £6.5M has been obtained in research grants and contracts. Some 25 students have obtained their PhD Degree under his guidance and supervision. We are a world-leading research group working on advanced multi-functional composite materials and structures. The group currently has 20 international researchers and is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentations for materials testing and characterisation, including non-destructive and real time structural health monitoring (SHM) equipment. We have strong links to National Research Centres and target on a wide range of structural applications, including: • Micro-mechanics based damage mechanics for 3D Orthogonal Woven Composites (To appear in Composite Structures, COST-D-15-02470, 2016) • Evolution of damage during fatigue of 3D woven composites characterised by X-ray tomography (J Composites Part A, 82(3), 2016, 279-290) • Multi-scale modelling of the structural integrity of composites (Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, 374(2071), 2016) • Detection and evaluation of damage in aircraft composites using electromagnetics ( Composite Structures, 140(4), 2016, 252-261) • Distributed internal strain measurement during manufacturing by optical fibre sensors (Composites Science & Technology, 120(12), 2015, 49-57) • Damage monitoring of external patch repairs with guided ultrasonic waves (Strain, International Journal of Experimental Mechanics, 51(4), 2015, 288-300) Matthieu Gresil is a Lecturer in Composite Materials, non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). He received his BSc in Physics from University of Nantes, France and PhD in Materials from Ecole Normale Superieure at Cachan, France in 2009. Current research effort is focusing on multi-functional and nano-composite structures using piezoelectric sensors, distributed optical fibres and graphene particles to develop imaging strategies for real-time SHM damage detection. Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility Professor Philip Withers and Dr Tim Burnett School of Materials [email protected]; [email protected]

Professor Withers is the Inaugural Chief Science Director of the £235M Sir Henry Royce National Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Professor of Materials Science, he is a world authority on laboratory and synchrotron X-ray imaging. He has 635 publications with an H- index of 54 and over 15,000 citations. He is a Fellow of Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He has received many prestigious awards for his research achievements and has won over £23M research grant over the past 10 years.

We are a world-leading research group working on the understanding the performance of materials, often in operando under demanding conditions using x-ray imaging to probe engineering materials behaviour. The group currently has 26 international researchers and is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentations for imaging. Our research has: • Underpinned the scientific basis by which materials fail (Mat Sci Tech 2001, 17, 355; Acta Mater 2003, 51, 4791; Phil Trans Roy Soc A, 2015. 373(2036), 20130157) • Developed x-ray computer tomography 3D imaging of degradation across a range of length and time scales (Metal Mater Trans A, 2008, 39A, 3070; J Roy Soc Interface, 2013, 10, 84; Int Mat Rev, 2014, 59, 1) • Established correlative tomography to link together X-ray and electron imaging for material science applications (Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, 4711; Ultramicroscopy, 2016, 161, 119) Tim Burnett is a Lecturer in Materials Imaging with research interests in correlative tomography as applied to stress corrosion cracking. He received his PhD from University of Leeds in 2008, to date he has 31 publications with an H-index of 11 and nearly 400 citations. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

School of Mathematics Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics (MCND) Professor Nico Gray and Dr Chris Johnson School of Mathematics [email protected] , [email protected] Nico Gray is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and is an expert on the flow and segregation of granular materials in both industrial and geophysical applications. He holds a prestigious Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Established Career Fellowship as well as being a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder. He has 62 publications with an H-index of 20 and over 1,600 citations. He has won over £4.5 million in research grants over his career. Researchers in MCND use a novel combination of theory, computation and experiments to understand complex nonlinear phenomena in fluids and solids. Cutting-edge research from Professor Gray’s Granular Group has recently been highlighted on the front covers of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics 675, 678, 720 & 794, Physical Review Letters 114 and C. R. Physique 16.

Chris Johnson is a Lecturer in Nonlinear Dynamics with research interests in granular flows as well as gravity currents and intrusions. He received his MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2006 and a PhD from Manchester in 2011. He has already published in Nature. Numerical Analysis Professor Nick Higham School of Mathematics [email protected] Nick Higham is Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics and has research interests in numerical linear algebra and numerical algorithms. He has over 160 publications, a Google Scholar h-index of 62 and over 15,500 citations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Member of Academia Europaea, a SIAM Fellow, and President of SIAM 2017–2018.

• Research monograph Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithm (SIAM, 2ed, 2002) is the standard reference in the field. • Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation (SIAM, 2008) is the first ever research monograph on matrix functions. • Editor of 1000-page The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics (2015). • His algorithms and software are widely used in MATLAB, LAPACK, NAG library, Julia, SciPy, Mathematica . . . . • Prizes include 2008 Fröhlich Prize (London Mathematical Society). • ERC Advanced Grant holder, 2011–2016. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Mechanical Aerospace & Civil Engineering Laser Processing Research Centre Professor Lin Li and Dr Olivier Allegre School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering [email protected]

Professor Lin Li, Director of Laser Processing Research Centre, is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, President of the Laser Institute of America, Past President of the International Academy of Photonics and Laser Engineering and Vice President of the Association of Industrial Laser Users. He has published over 600 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, 47 patents, and successfully supervised and graduated 48 PhD students. He is an Editor or member of Editorial Board of 12 international scientific journals. He received numerous awards including Sir Frank Whittle Medal and Researcher of the Year of University of Manchester in 2014.

We are a world-leading research group, working on multi-disciplinary subjects related to laser material processing and multi-physical processes such as thermal, mechanics and optical modelling in multi-scales. The team include 14 academics and technical support staff and equipped with cutting edge experimental facilities. In close collaboration of industry, the team perform advanced modelling to support the experimental research and to delve into the deep science of the process on four key research areas of Additive and shaping processes, Cutting, drilling and welding, nano-processes, nano-photonics and meta-materials.

Dr Olivier Allegre specializes in advanced laser processes, with an interest in ultrashort- pulse laser material interactions and process control. He has completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool in advanced control of laser beam wave front and polarisation for micro-manufacturing. Bio-Manufacturing/Engineering Prof. Paulo Bartolo, Dr. Andy Weightman & Dr. Glen Cooper School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering [email protected]

Paulo Bartolo is a Chair Professor on Advanced Manufacturing at the School of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, Visiting Professor at many leading International Universities, Fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP) and Advisor of the Brazilian Institute of Biofabrication. He authored more than 500 publications, co-edited 18 books and holds 13 patents. Since 2002 has been engaged in around 90 research projects funded different funding agencies (global funding: £39 M). His main research interests are biomanufacturing, additive manufacturing and tissue engineering.

The Bio-Engineering Research Group aims to improve healthcare through research in: • Additive Manufacturing for Tissue Scaffolds (e.g. Nanomedicine) • Skin/Nerve/Cartilage/Bone regeneration (e.g. Acta Biomaterialia, Biofabrication) • Stroke/CP rehabilitation devices (Clinical Rehabilitation) • Diabetes (Diabetes Care) • Many other applications for medical device development

Dr Andy Weightman is an expert in Dr Glen Cooper’s main research interests user centred design for healthcare are in understanding medical problems applications and mechatronics. He through experimental measurements and has experience of developing award modelling and developing medical winning medical devices, devices. He has a particular interest in rehabilitation robotics, for the diabetes, spinal problems and lower limb cognitively and physically impaired. biomechanics. Nuclear Engineering and Structural Integrity Professor Robert Ainsworth and Dr Matthew Roy School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering [email protected]

Professor Ainsworth is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. He has been the BNFL Professor of Structural Integrity at the University of Manchester and has over 35 years in the UK electricity supply industry. His R5 assessment procedures are the UK power-generation’s industry standard for assessing the lifetime of high-temperature components. In addition, Bob’s defect-assessment R6 procedures are used routinely on nuclear plants in the and also more widely beyond the nuclear industry. He has received James Clayton Prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has been involved in teaching at the postgraduate level for many years and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars.

Our activities include the research on nuclear materials and fuels, the investigation of reactor operating behaviour, the study of decommissioning practices and the development of the next generation of nuclear personnel. With an extensive access to a wide range of facilities, our research is addressing key challenges in nuclear industry alongside a large team of experts and researches in the world-leading establishments at the University of Manchester including the Centre for Nuclear Energy Technology, Dalton Nuclear Institute and Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre.

Dr Matthew Roy is a Lecturer in Materials for Demanding Environments. His principal research interests are advanced manufacturing and materials processing, linking processing methodology to the in-service life of resulting components. His research topics include incremental metal forming, casting, welding and other near-net shape manufacturing methods involving thermo-mechanical processing. Biomass and Bioenergy Professor Patricia Thornley and Amanda Lea-Langton School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering [email protected]

Patricia Thornley is a Professor in Sustainable Energy systems and based at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester. She is a chartered physicist with over 20 years experience working in bioenergy in industry and academia. Patricia is director of the SUPERGEN Bioenergy hub, a £12.8 portfolio of EPSRC SUPERGEN Bioenergy research, which brings together industry, academia and other stakeholders to focus on the research challenges associated with delivering sustainable bioenergy systems (www.,supergen-bioenergy.net). She is an associate editor of “Biomass and Bioenergy” and won an international Atlas award in 2015 for research that has the potential to have significant impact on people’s lives.

The Bioenergy Research Group in Tyndall Manchester focuses on thermochemical conversion technologies, carrying out resource assessments, supply chain analyses, technical and environmental assessments. It has particular expertise on life cycle assessment and sustainability analysis of whole systems, synthesizing environmental, economic and social impacts of bioenergy and works closely with industrial and policy stakeholders to ensure impact and implementation.

Amanda Lea- Langton is a Lecturer in Bioenergy Engineering with research interests including energy from wastes, sustainable transport fuels and the air quality effects of biofuels. Her PhD is in PAH emissions from diesel engines, and she has a BEng in Fuel and Energy Engineering and an MSc in Environmental Pollution Control. Amanda is a Committee Member of the SAE, The Combustion Institute and The Aerosol Society. Thermal Hydraulics Professor Hector Iacovides and Dr. Andrea Cioncolini School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering [email protected]

Professor Hector Iacovides holds a Chair in Convective Heat Transfer at the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received a prestigious Award for Scientific Contribution from the Heat Transfer Society of Japan. His research has been reported in 200 publications which include review papers, book chapters and 13 keynote and invited conference papers. The citations of his research exceed 2800 with an H-index of 31.

Thermal Hydraulics research covers computational and experimental activities, related to the investigation of complex and challenging heat and fluid flow problems in aerospace, power generation, nuclear and other areas. Novel numerical techniques and models of turbulence are developed and tested to allow efficient simulation of forced, mixed and natural convection, conjugate heat transfer and fluid structure interaction. Unique experimental facilities provide much needed validation data.

Dr. Andrea Cioncolini is a Lecturer in Thermal-Hydraulics. His area of research is thermal-fluid-nuclear, both experimental and computational, and his specialties are: micro- and macro-scale multiphase flow; boiling; evaporation; condensation; fluid systems transient analysis and nuclear systems transient/safety analysis. He has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, and worked for 2 years for Westinghouse Electric in USA. He has published 23 journal papers and has an H-index of 12. Offshore Energy and Coastal Engineering Professor Peter Stansby and Dr Steve Lind School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering [email protected]

Professor Peter Stansby holds the Osborne Reynolds Chair at the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has been an investigator on over 50 grants and contracts, mainly from EPSRC and serves as the associate editor for the journal Renewable Energy and the new Journal of Ocean Engineering and marine Energy. His research on hydrodynamics and renewable energy now extends to marine current turbines and the novel numerical method smoothed particle hydrodynamics. His 128 journal papers have received 2300 citations and his current H-index is 28. He has 56 research council grants in his profile .

Our research addresses the development and evaluation of models to simulate the loading, performance and environmental impact of devices for generating electricity from the renewable sources. With access to world class experimental and computational facilities and in close collaboration with our industrial partners, our postgraduates work on multidisciplinary and diverse areas of coastal engineering, offshore wind energy, tidal stream turbines and wave energy systems. The computational methods that are being developed by the team is opening up the possibility of research into challenging fields such as violent free-surface flows.

Dr Steven Lind specializes in Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). He has a PhD in applied mathematics from Cardiff University for which he won the Vernon Harrison Prize 2010. He is currently an investigator on two active EPSRC research grants and supervisor of four PhD students. Structure and Building Professor Yong Wang and Dr Domenico Lombardi School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering [email protected]

Professor Yong Wang is Professor of Structural and Fire Engineering and an internationally renowned leading researcher in the field. He has published 2 books, 2 design guides and about 300 papers in leading international journals and conferences. He has a H-index of 36 and has nearly 2500 citations since 2011. He received the Henry Adams Award twice from the Institute of Structural Engineering and the Thomas Telford Premium from the Institution of Civil Engineers, all for publishing the best research paper in the Institutions’ flagship journals. His collaborations with researchers from China date back more than 20 years. He is currently a visiting Chair Professor at both Tongji and Tsinghua Universities. He was awarded an Outstanding Overseas Researcher grant from NSFC in 2007.

We conduct experimental, numerical and analytical research studies to understand the mechanisms of failure of structures and foundations, and associated protective materials, under extreme loading conditions such as fire, impact and earthquake. Equipped with cutting edge experimental and computational facilities, Our research embraces new structures and protective materials, innovative structural systems for construction industry circular economy through design for deconstruction, as well as the assessment of existing structures for continued use.

Dr Domenico Lombardi is a lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering. He has over 20 publications since 2011 including a textbook entitled “Fundamentals of Engineering Mathematics”. His current H-index is 8, with nearly 250 citations since 2011. His main research interests are in soil dynamics and structural dynamics, with applications to offshore renewable energy and earthquake engineering. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Theory & 2D Materials Modelling Professor Vladimir Fal’ko ([email protected])

Vladimir Fal’ko is Research Director of the National Graphene Institute and Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Manchester, and he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IoP Journal ‘2D Materials’ (IF=9.6). Fal’ko was responsible for many advances in the quantum transport theory in mesoscopic systems, and he made substantial contributions towards understanding of electronic and optical properties of graphene and other 2D materials. We are a world-leading research group working on modelling electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials & their heterostructures, equipped with state-of-the-art computational facilities. We are one of the leading theory partners in the European Graphene Flagship Project, collaborating with dozens of experimental groups in Europe and USA. Our research covers: • Graphene heterostructures with other 2D crystals [Science 2016 in press; Nature Physics 10, 525 (2014); Phys. Rev. B 88, 155415 (2013); Phys. Rev. B 87, 245408 (2013); Nature 487, 594 (2013)] • Correlation effects in few-layer graphene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115501 (2015); Nano Letters 14, 2135 (2014); Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 116602 (2014); Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 106801 (2012); Science, 333, 6044 (2011)] • New device concepts in graphene systems [Science 2106 in press; Nature Phys 12, 318 (2016); ; Nature 490, 192 (2012)Science 315, 1252 (2007)] • Quantum Hall effect and the fundamental quantum resistance standard [Rep. Prog. Phys. 76, 104501 (2013); New J. Phys. 13, 093026 (2011); Nature Nanotechnology 5, 186 - 189 (2010)] • Electronic and optical properties of 2D crystals of various metal chalcogenides [2D Mater. 2 022001 (2015); Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 107401 (2015); ACS Nano 8, 752 (2014); Phys Rev B 89, 205416 (2014); Phys. Rev. B 87, 195403 (2013); Phys. Rev. B 85, 075423 (2012)] Manchester Ultra-Low Temperature Research Group Professor Andrei Golov and Dr Paul Walmsley School of Physics and Astronomy [email protected]; [email protected]

Andrei Golov is Professor of Condensed matter Physics, with research interests in quantum fluids and solids. Paul Walmsley is a Lecturer in Physics with research interests in quantized vortices and quantum turbulence. He received his MPhys and PhD from the University of Manchester in 1999 and 2003, respectively.

We are a world-leading research group working on turbulence in superfluid helium in the zero- temperature limit. The group is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentations for experiments with superfluid helium, including two rotating cryostats. Research is funded by EPSRC. Our recent publications include:

• Crystalline defects in solid helium. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 065302 (2011) • Chirality of superlfuid 3He-A. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 215301 (2012) 4 • Excimers He2 as tracers of vortices in superfluid He. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 175303 (2013) • Design of the new rotating cryostat. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 84, 103905 (2013) • Reconnections of quantized vortex rings. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 125302 (2014) • Review on Quantum Turbulence, PNAS 111, Suppl. 1, 4691 (2014) • Dissipation of turbulence in superlfuid 4He. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155303 (2015) Liquid Crystals and Soft Matter Physics Dr Ingo Dierking School of Physics & Astronomy [email protected] Ingo Dierking is a Soft Matter Physicist who works predominantly on topics of liquid crystal and liquid crystal composite systems. He has 120 publications, with several book chapters and a monograph on the “Textures of Liquid Crystals”. He is the former Treasurer, Vice-Chair and Chairman of the British Liquid Crystal Society and the present Secretary of the International Liquid Crystals Society. He is also the Chief-editor of Liquid Crystals Today, and a member of the editorial board of several other soft matter related journals. He has received prestigious awards for his research like the Cyril Hilsum Medal and the Samsung Mid Career Award for Research Excellence. We are a leading research group working on liquid crystals and anisotropic soft matter composites. The group is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation for liquid crystal characterisation. We have collaborations with research groups world- wide and our main research topics include: • Chirality and liquid crystals • Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals • Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystals • Liquid Crystal – Nanotube and Nano-particle dispersions • Graphene Oxide based lyotropic liquid crystals • Fractal structures in soft matter and other systems • Defects in liquid crystals Experimental Particle Physics School of Physics Head of Group: [email protected]; PG admission: [email protected] We are a world-leading research group, working on data analysis, computing, detector development and theory at the forefront of particle physics. We make leading contributions to new measurements and sensitive searches at the LHC (in particular ATLAS and LHCb) and neutrino experiments (MINOS, MicroBooNE, SuperNEMO, DUNE, IceCube). We develop new technologies for detector upgrades and future detectors at CERN and Fermilab (USA). All of our academic staff have won prestigious fellowships, prizes or grants and have significant research output. LHCb academics: Dr Marco Gersbeck, Prof Chris Parkes, Dr Mark Williams

Neutrino academics: Dr Justin Evans, Prof Stefan Söldner-Rembold, Dr Andrzej Szelc MicroBooNE ATLAS academics: Prof Brian Cox OBE FRS, Prof Cinzia Da Via, Dr Alex Oh, Dr Yvonne Peters, Dr Andrew Pilkington, Dr Darren Price, Prof Steve Watts, Prof Terry Wyatt FRS