London and South East Coast Young (UK)
Committee
If you are interested in one of the vacant roles posted below, or think you have another distinctive contribution to make, please get in touch. We try to fit roles to the volunteer, so each person feels comfortable with the level and type of commitment.
Maria Kalli
Chair
Maria graduated with a First-class Honours in MEng Chemical Engineering and has a PhD in the fields of microfluidics and surfactants from UCL. She recently joined MicrofluidX, a start-up working towards automating cell and gene therapy manufacturing platforms to accelerate research and precisely bring medicines to patients. With experience in both research and industrial sectors, as well as the President of Chemical Engineering Researchers’ Society (CheERS), Maria is the Chair of the IChemE YMF L&SEC.
Vacant - Vice Chair
Vice-Chair
Aishat Aguda
Treasurer
Guilherme Werner
Secretary
Guilherme is a current BEng/MEng Chemical Engineering student at University College London (UCL), undertaking an Industrial Placement at GSK, over the 2022/23 academic year.
Nan Qi MEng AMIChemE
MEMBERSHIP REPRESENTATIVE
Graduated from University of Oxford with a MEng in Engineering Science in 2012.
Tanya
Social Media Representative
Rubén Altamirano
Social Media Representative
Ruben currently works for AkzoNobel in the Decorative Paints division.
Mark-Adam Kellerman
UCL REPRESENTATIVE
Mark is a second year PhD candidate in the department of Biochemical Engineering at UCL.
Andrew McMahon CEng MIChemE
Webmaster
Andrew graduated from Newcastle University in 2016 and is currently working for GSK as the Dental Appliance Care Global Product Owner
Mohamad Ghafarian
Events Representative
Mohamad graduated with a First class Honours in MEng Chemical Engineering from University of Greenwich.
Ralph Ghaleb
University of Greenwhich Representative
Ralph is a BEng chemical engineering student at the University of Greenwich.
Claudia Boschin
Imperial College London Representative
Claudia is a 3rd Year MEng Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, expecting to graduate in 2024
Dan Penn
Imperial College London Representative
Dan is a second-year undergraduate at Imperial College London. Coming from a family of teachers, he is eager to escape education and give fellow students an insight into possible future career paths on the way.
Syed Ijaz
University College of London University Representative
Syed is currently a PhD student at University College of London.
Milad Marghoub
London South Bank University Representative
Milad is currently final year student studying Chemical and Process Engineering and will be graduating in 2020.
Marieke de Bock
Imperial College London Representative
Marieke is a MEng chemical engineering student at Imperial College London.
Panagiotis Petsagkourakis
UCL REPRESENTATIVE
Panos received his chemical engineering degree (silver medal award- summa cum laude) from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) in 2015.
Monika Kaminska
Imperial College London Representative
Monika is currently a 2nd year undergraduate studying MEng chemical engineering at Imperial College London, and will be graduating in 2022.