Professor Maria-Chiara Ferrari

Chair

Chiara is a Professor of Membrane Separations in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. She leads the research on membranes for carbon capture and energy applications in the school.

Marcus Cook

Secretary

Marcus holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in the field of membrane separations.

David Martyn

Committee member

David has worked for bp for 25 years and since 2014 has been their Separations SME, specializing in oil refinery distillation. Together we can create re-invigorate the Fluid Separations Group. Let’s create some great events from which all members can gain knowledge and contribute even more positively to society.

Tom Bell

Webmaster

Tom is an associate member of the IChemE who works as a global sales engineer for Alfa Laval in Stockholm, Sweden. In his role at Alfa Laval, he helps companies in the chemical and process industries with separation tasks that could be solved using centrifugal separation.

Greg Spencer

Committee member

Greg is a longstanding member of the Fluid Separations Special Interest Group. He was technical manager at Schott Engineering designing fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, nuclear and acid concentration plant. He held various technical and sales roles during his 27+ years with Koch-Glitsch, applying his expertise in design, specification and troubleshooting of petrochemicals, refinery, gas, and carbon capture distillation and absorption columns.

Professor Mohammed Kalbassi

Committee Member

Mohammad is a Fellow of IChemE, a chartered engineer & scientist, a longstanding member of the Fluid Separations Subject Group (FSSG) and the corresponding European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)’s Working Party arm on Fluid Separations.

Professor Eva Sorensen

Committee Member

Eva is a longstanding member of the Fluid Separations Subject group and of the corresponding European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)’s Working Party on Fluid Separations. She is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Head of Department, at UCL where she has been for over 25 years.

Dr. Katerina Tsatse

Committee Member

Katerina completed her PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, focusing on the optimal design, control and consideration of uncertainty for reactive distillation systems.