Food and Drink
Committee
Dr Laura Mahli
Chair Person
Laura has a Chemical Engineering master’s degree and Formulation Engineering PhD from the University of Birmingham.
Hannah van Niekerk
Secretary
Kalita Patel
Treasurer
Kalita graduated in 2014 with a degree in Chemical Engineering (MEng) from the University of Birmingham.
Chara Ngando
Committee Member
Chara is an enthusiastic recent graduate, that studied MSc Chemical Engineering and Process Management, that works as a Quality Control Technician in a distillery in London.
Tom Bullock
Webmaster
Tom graduated with an MEng in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham in 2011.
Andy Stapley
Committee Member
Conor McCarthy
Committee Member
Professor Bettina Wolf
Committee Member
Bettina has a degree in chemical engineering (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and completed a doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
David Platts
Committee Member
Joe Eades
Committee Member
Joseph is the Managing Director of Ispahan Engineering and the Managing Partner of Advancing World Partners.
Emma King
Committee Member
Professor Serafim Bakalis
Committee Member
Serafim graduated in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1994 and has a PhD in Food Science from Rutgers University (1999).
Andrew Muir
Committee Member
Dr Fotis Spyropoulos
Committee Member
Fotis graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Patras (Greece) and subsequently obtained his Msc in ‘Food Biotechnology’ from the University of Ulster (NI).
Ross Dunmall
Committee Member
Seamus Higgins
Committee Member
Seamus has worked/consulted at various management positions with several leading international food companies including Nestle and Premier Foods.
Professor Philip Richardson
Committee Member
Graduated 1983 from Queens University Belfast. Was formerly Head Food Manufacturing Technologies and Regulatory Affairs at Campden BRI and currently Product Development Specialist at KJ3D Manufacturing.
Emma Mcnulty
Committee Member
Saleh Sambwa
Committee Member
Saleh Sambwa graduated with a MEng in chemical engineering from University College of London (UCL) in 2014.
Dr Hii Ching Lik
Committee Member
Dr Hii is currently Associate professor in the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus.
Anna Osborne
Ellie Cooke
Committee Member and IChemE 100 support
Ellie graduated with an MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath in 2020.