Joan Cordiner

Joan moved to academia in 2020 from a 30+ year career in ICI, Astra Zeneca and Syngenta latterly as a technology manager and global risk manager for manufacturing. As a global engineering manager she was responsible for research and development for active ingredients, formulations process safety and risk management. She led the development of computer models for physical property prediction, computer aided molecular design, process modelling and managing major partnerships between Syngenta and some of the world’s top universities.

Joan chaired the 2021 report by the Royal Academy of Engineering for the Cabinet Office, working in collaboration with a select committee of the House of Lords on Improvements in the Processes for the National Security Risk Register. Joan’s groups concentrate on modelling (mechanistic and data driven) of complex processes integrating process safety, maintenance and optimisation across a wide variety of processes from mRNA vaccines, pharm and chemical processes and fusion energy.