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2003– 2004 DOCTORATES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(RELATED TO FOOD AND BIOPRODUCTS PROCESSING)
AT ICHEME-ACCREDITED UNIVERSITIES WORLDWIDE
Every year since 1981, Chemical Engineering Research and Design (Trans IChemE, Part A) has
published a list of Doctorates in Chemical Engineering for the previous academic year, compiled
from information supplied directly from the Heads of Departments of Chemical Engineering of
universities worldwide. The following titles have been selected to include those relevant to food and
bioproducts processing which it was felt would be of interest to readers of this journal. Names of
research supervisors are given in parentheses.
AUSTRALIA
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Dr M. Goldsmith. Lightstruck flavour formation in beer-
mechanism and control. (Professor F. Roddick)
University of New South Wales
School of Chemical Engineering and
Industrial Chemistry
Dr R. B. Myors. Chemical profiling of illicit drugs. (Dr P. Crisp)
University of Queensland
Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr M. Kauter. The effects of impurities on lactose crystallization.
(Professor J. Litster)
Dr Q. Ma. Microscopic analysis of porous media during drying.
(Professor V. Rudolph)
Dr C. Myung. The effects of microstructure on the rheology and
relaxation behaviour of polyurethane elastomers. (Associate
Professor P. Halley)
Dr M. Pedrini. Characterization of few polyhedra mutants of
helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus cultivated
in vitro. (Associate Professor S. Reid)
Dr B. Santhanam. High density culture of Nitrosomonas nitro-
bacter. (Associate Professor S. Reid)
University of Sydney
Dr J. Tang. Bioleaching of low grade nickel laterite ore with
heterotrophic micro-organisms. (Dr M. Valix)
IRELAND
University College Dublin
Dr A. Pearson. Scale-related effects in the growth of filamentous
organisms. (Dr B. Glennon/Dr P. Kieran)
THE NETHERLANDS
Delft University of Technology
Dr M. P. Garate. Dry-cleaning in liquid CO2. (Professor
Dr G. Frens)
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Dr A. Jongejan. Computational chemistry of PQQ and QH-ADH.
(Professor Dr W. R. Hagen)
Dr Y.-X. Li. Enzymatic reactions of alcohols: oxidation and
kinetic resolution. (Professor Dr R. A. Sheldon)
Dr R. Machás Madeira Lau. Lipase catalyzed non-natural reac-
tions. (Professor Dr R. A. Sheldon/Dr Ir F. van Rantwijk)
NEW ZEALAND
University of Auckland
Dr K. Murton. An investigation into the fibre separation and
development mechanisms of Pinus radiata thermomechanical
pulping. (Professor G. G. Duffy)
SINGAPORE
National University of Singapore
Dr C. Cao. The study of 6FDA-polyimide gas separation mem-
branes. (Dr R. Wang/Professor N. T. S. Chung)
Dr W. Chew. Exploratory chemometric studies of unmodified rho-
dium catalyzed conjugated diene hydroformylations via in situ
FTIR spectroscopy. (Associate Professor M. V. Garland)
Dr Z. Huang. Thermodynamics of cholesterol compounds in
supercritical carbon dioxide: Experimental and modelling
studies. (Associate Professor S. Kawi)
Dr J. P. Wan. POE and POE-PEG-POE triblock copolymeric
microspheres for controlled protein delivery. (Professor
N. T. S. Chung/Dr Y. Y. Yang)
Dr W. C. Wang. Surface and molecular modification of polyimides
via graft copolymerization and functionalization. (Professor
E. T. Kang/Professor K. G. Neoh)
Dr X. Wang. Enantioseparation of beta-blocker drugs for pharma-
ceutical applications. (Professor C. B. Ching)
SOUTH AFRICA
University of Pretoria
Dr F. S. Moolman. Oxygen carriers for a novel bio-artificial liver
support system. (Professor W. W. Focke)
UK
University of Bath
Dr H. C. Chua. Turn-up/turn-down of throughput in membrane
bioreactors. (Professor J. Howell/Dr T. C. Arnot)
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Dr A. Weis. Fouling and cleaning synergy in ultrafiltration
membrane systems. (Dr M. R. Bird)
Dr R. Zhang. Dextran hydrogel preparation and applications
in biomedical engineering. (Dr J. Hubble/Dr A Bowyer/
Professor R. Eisenthal)
Queen’s University Belfast
Dr A. Al-Muhtaseb. Moisture sorption isotherms and drying
characteristics of starch materials. (Professor T. R. A. Magee/
Dr W. A. M. McMinn)
University of Birmingham
Dr G. K. Christian. Cleaning of carbohydrate and dairy protein
deposit. (Professor P. J. Fryer)
Dr S. T. Miri Shaktaee. The rheology and microstructure of
filamentous mycoprotein pastes. (Professor P. J. Fryer/
Professor S. Blackburn)
Dr N. T. Mukwena. Apoptosis and its suppression in a novel
hepatocyte cell line, HepZ. (Professor M. Al-Rubeai)
Dr P. T. Robbins. The roasting of speciality malts. (Professor
P. J. Fryer)
Dr P. J. Thorburn. Effect of non-starch hydrocolloids on starch
processing. (Professor P. J. Fryer)
Dr D. Westerman. Extraction and enrichment of physiologically
active lipids and nutrients from plant materials using super-
critical fluid extraction. (Dr B. Al-Duri/Dr R. Santos)
Dr N. M. Yates. The squeeze-flow rheometry of foods. (Dr
M. Barigou)
University of Cambridge
Dr D. R. Arda. The sharkskin extrusion instability and its minimiz-
ation in polyethylene processing. (Professor M. R. Mackley)
Dr M. W. Collis. Microscale processing of polystyrene melts.
(Professor M. R. Mackley)
Dr R. B. Cooke. The rheology and processing behaviour of
polymer and wormlike micelle solutions used in oil recovery.
(Professor M. R. Mackley)
Dr S. J. Dooley. Biodegration of machine cutting oil. (Professor
H. A. Chase)
Dr W. A. Germishuizen. Dielectrophoresis as an addressing
mechanism in a novel data storage system based on DNA.
(Dr. A. P. J. Middelberg)
Dr K. G. Hollingsworth. Characterization of emulsion systems
using NMR methods. (Dr M. L. Johns)
Dr C. T. Lee. Intensification of inclusion body purification and
refolding. (Dr A. P. J. Middelberg)
Dr B. D. Russell. Signal processing for on-line control of paste
extrusion. (Dr D. I. Wilson)
Dr A. J. Tubb. High shear continuous mixing – structure and
rheology of a batter. (Professor J. Bridgwater)
Dr B. L. Yeap. Designing heat exchanger networks to mitigate
fouling. (Dr D. I. Wilson)
Heriot-Watt University
Dr B. T. Mohammad. Application of solvent tolerant bacteria
for biocatalytic oxidation of high concentration 2-propanal.
(Dr D. Wilkinson)
Imperial College, London
Dr R. A. Basterfield. Interpretation of mechanical testing
measurements for pastes. (Professor C. J. Lawrence)
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Dr K. L. A. Chan. Spectroscopic imaging of polymeric
materials and pharmaceutical formulations. (Professor
S. Kazarian)
Dr Hussein Mohammed. Contact mechanical aspects of pharma-
ceutical compaction. (Dr O. K. Matar/Dr D. R. Williams)
Dr P. Karamertzanis. Prediction of crystal structure of molecular
solids. (Professor C. Pantelides/Dr C. Adjiman)
London South Bank University
Dr M. H. Faouaz. Computer modelling of changes to food during
processing. (Dr R. J. Best)
Dr A. Shepherd. Safeguarding of evaporator operations in repro-
cessing plant. (Professor P. F. Nolan)
University College London – Department of
Biochemical Engineering
Dr A. E. Baker. Disposable bioreactors for controlled microbial
and cell growth. (Professor M. Hoare)
Dr K. Beveridge. Magnetically stabilized fluidized bed reactor for
biotransformations. (Professor J. M. Woodley)
Dr P. A. Bird. New infrared spectroscopic monitoring and
control of a whole-cell biocatalytic process. (Professor
J. M. Woodley)
Dr S. G. Cull. Process selection and design for the microbial
biotransformation of poorly water-soluble nitrile compounds.
(Dr G. J. Lye)
Dr J. L. Davies. Process synthesis for antibiotic recovery by
microfiltration from Saccharopolyspora erythraea fermentation
broths. (Dr G. J. Lye)
Dr A. J. Dorward. A study of process engineering interactions
for protein recovery using crystallization. (Professor
M. Hoare)
Dr E. G. Hibbert. Engineering and molecular biology approaches
to improving trypsin-based bioprocesses. (Professor J. M.
Woodley)
Dr C. Jacques. Modelling of metabolic pathways of Saccharopoly-
spora erythraea using flux balance analysis. (Dr F. Baganz)
Dr A. Kay. Plasmid fermentation for gene therapy and
vaccination. (Dr E. Keshavarz-Moore)
Dr L. K. Lee. Biophysical studies of synthetic gene delivery
systems. (Professor P. A. Shamlou)
Dr L. A. Maguire. Processing and characterization of Liposomes
for use in gene delivery. (Professor P. Dunnill/Dr P. Dalby)
Dr C. N. Mount. The impact of processing on the biophysical
properties of synthetic DNA complexes for gene delivery.
(Dr S. M. Levy/Professor P. A. Shamlou)
Dr C. Phonprapai. Effect of rapeseed oil on the nitrogen balance of
laboratory and pilot-scale fermentations of Saccharopolyspora
erythraea. (Dr E. Keshavarz-Moore/Professor M. K. Turner)
Dr J. Postlethwaite. Vibrating membrane filtration: Microfiltration
performance during the processing of biological feedstreams.
(Dr G. J. Lye)
Dr L. S. Sarup. Investigation of supercritical fluid technology to
produce dry particulate formulations of antibody fragments.
(Professor M. Hoare)
Dr M. E. K. Syemour. Process considerations in the extraction
and recovery of plant virus caccines. (Dr E. Moore-Keshavarz)
Dr S. Tantipaibulvut. The effect of surfactant oil uptake and
erythromycin production by Saccharopolyspora erythraea
CA340. (Professor M. K. Turner)
Dr J. A. Wilson. Novel downstream processing for recovery of
nematodes for biopesticides. (Professor P. Dunnill)
Dr H. Zhang. Application of computational fluid dynamics to
micro-titre plates scale bioreactors. (Professor P. A. Shamlou)
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Loughborough University University of Newcastle

Dr M. R. Beresford. Attachment of listeria monocytogenes to
materials commonly found in a food processing environment.
(Dr G. Shama)
University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology
Dr H. Korbekandi. Biotransformations using peptostreptococcus
products. (Dr G. Stephens)
Dr I. Muhamad. Single kernel effects on breakage during wheat
milling. (Dr G. Campbell)
Dr M. A. Bokhari. Bone tissue engineering using novel micro-
cellular polymers. (Professor G. Akay)
Dr K. J. Kipling. Knowledge engineering in bioprocesses.
(Professor G. A. Montague)
University of Oxford
Dr H. Sur. An experimental study on the enhancement of yeast
microfiltration using gas sparging. (Professor Z. F. Cui)

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