Cohort 3
Kudakwashe Chingono
Title: Smart continuous nanoparticle manufacturing.
Theme Areas: Process Modelling Between Scales, Product Characterisation.
Academic Supervisory Team: Professor Richard Bourne (School of Chemistry), Professor Elaine Martin (School of Chemical and Process Engineering) and Dr Nicholas Warren (School of Chemical and Process Engineering).
Industrial Sector: Pharmaceuticals.
Description: This project aims to enable ‘smart’, continuous organic polymeric nanoparticle (NP) manufacture by developing a modular, computer-controlled platform for nanoparticle production. The current focus of the work is on preparing PEG-Based polymeric nanoparticles and extensively characterising them to understand preparation variables such as solvent and process effects. This will inform optimisation from a scale-up perspective.
Sudeshna Roy
Title: Understanding process effects on the stability of amorphous form products (re-crystallisation of amorphous form products).
Theme Areas: Product Characterisation, Process Modelling Between Scales. 
Academic Supervisory Team: Dr. Nicole Hondow (School of Chemical and Process Engineering), Professor Elaine Martin (School of Chemical and Process Engineering), Professor Andy Brown (School of Chemical and Process Engineering).
Industrial Sector: Pharmaceuticals, Material Science.
Description: The aim of the project is to understand how various processes influence the stability of amorphous form products, in order to limit their recrystallization. These objectives could roughly be divided into three aspects, characterisation of model drug delivery systems, prepared via two different routes, and stored in a range of conditions, identification of the key molecular factors that affect the stability of the model systems (e.g. designing of experiments) and, development of more general predictive models and molecular fingerprints.
Gabriele Sumanskaite
Title: Self-optimising reactor systems combined with computational strategies to understand and control inorganic particles.
Theme Areas: Product functionalisation and Performance, Process Modelling between Scales. 
Academic Supervisory Team: Professor Kevin Roberts (School of Chemical and Process Engineering), Dr Mike Evans (School of Mathematics), Dr David Harbottle (School of Chemical and Process Engineering), Dr Maximilian Besenhard.
Industrial Sector: Pigments.
Description: This project aims to use self-optimising continuous flow systems combined with computational strategies to allow better understanding of crystal growth of iron sulphate heptahydrate and to provide better control over the crystallisation process.
Robin Winder
Title: The effect of internal droplet crystallisation on the drying process of Alpha Olefin Sulfonate.
Theme Areas: Product Functionalisation and Performance; Product Characterisation.
Academic Supervisory Team: Dr David Harbottle (School of Chemical and Process Engineering), Professor Andrew Bayly (School of Chemical and Process Engineering), Professor Michael Rappolt (School of Food Science and Nutrition).
Industrial Sector: Surfactants.
Description: This project examines the effect crystallisation has on the final particle shape and performance in a complex surfactant system. Focusing on single droplet drying and characterisation, and the operational parameters involved.