UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering
Scoil na hInnealtóireachta Ceimicí agus Bithphróisis UCD
Dr Damian Mooney BE, PhD, PG CHET
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Biography:
| BE (Chemical) UCD 1992; Ph.D. (UCD) 1996; PDRA (Max-Planck-Institüt für Polymerforschung - Theory Group of Prof. Dr. Kurt Kremer) 1996 - 1998. Senior Process Engineer (Unifi Inc) 1998 - 2000; Lecturer (School of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast) 2000 - 2003; Lecturer (Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, University College Dublin) 2003 - 2007, Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) (School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin) 2007 - present
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Research Interests
| Molecular Simulation; Soft Matter Physics; Porous and Nano-porous materials; Thin Layers; Ionic Liquids; Separation Processes |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Mass spectrometer for Focused Ion Beam - Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (FIB-SIMS) Start Date / End Date : 17-MAY-10 / 30-SEP-12 |
| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Advanced materials for biomimetic photoelectron processes Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-10 / 31-AUG-11 |
| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Using Electromagnetic Fields to Probe and Influence Protein Behaviour Start Date / End Date : 01-MAY-09 / 31-JUL-09 |
| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Controlled Drug Release from pH-sensitive Hydrogels: Experimental and Simulation Studies Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-05 / 31-JAN-09 |
| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Using Electromagnetic Fields to Probe and Influence Protein Behaviour Start Date / End Date : 01-DEC-07 / 30-NOV-08 |
| Sponsor : INTAS Title : Transport processes in amorphous glassy polymers and their effects on gas transport: theoretical, experimental and simulation studies Start Date / End Date : 01-JUN-02 / 30-MAY-05 |
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| Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD) Title : Molecular dynamics studies of transport in ionic liquids and organic-ionic liquid mixtures Start Date / End Date : 01-JUN-04 / 30-MAY-05 |
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| Sponsor : UCD Department of Chemical Engineering Title : Start up funds. Start Date / End Date : 04-MAY-04 / 11-MAY-04 |
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| Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI) Title : Fundamental Studies of Separation using Inorganic Nanomaterials (Co-ordinator of) Start Date / End Date : 01-MAR-04 / 12-MAY-04 |
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| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Using eletromagnetic fields to probe and influence protein behaviour Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-06 / 28-FEB-10 |
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| Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Title : Development of methodologies for studying protein transport in pH-sensitive hydrogels using molecular simulation techniques Start Date / End Date : 01-JUN-06 / 10-AUG-06 |
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| Sponsor : European Commission FP6 Title : Fundamental studies of tranSport in Inorganic Nanostructures (FUSION) Start Date / End Date : 01-NOV-05 / 31-OCT-08 |
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Peer Reviewed Journals
Garate, Jose-Antonio,English, Niall J.,Singh, Ajay,Ryan, Kevin M.,Mooney, Damian A.,Macelroy, J. M. D.; (2011) 'Electrophoretic Deposition of Poly(3-decylthiophene) onto Gold-Mounted Cadmium Selenide Nanorods'. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 27 (2222):13506-1313506.  [Details] |
| Akter, Taslima,McDermott, Thomas C.,MacElroy, J. M. Don,Mooney, Damian A.,Dowling, Denis P.; (2011) 'Atomistic Simulation of the Formation of Nanoporous Silica Films via Molecular Chemical Vapor Deposition on Nonporous Substrates'. Langmuir, 27 (2121):13052-1306313052. [Details] |
| Deshmukh, S,Mooney, DA,MacElroy, JMD; (2011) 'Molecular simulation study of the effect of cross-linker on the properties of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) hydrogel'. Molecular Simulation, 37 :846-854. [DOI] [Details] |
| English, N. J.,Mooney, D. A.,O'Brien, S.; (2011) 'Ionic liquids in external electric and electromagnetic fields: a molecular dynamics study'. Molecular Physics, 109 (44):625-638625. [Details] |
| Nolan, M.,Long, R.,English, N. J.,Mooney, D. A.; (2011) 'Hybrid density functional theory description of N- and C-doping of NiO'. Journal of Chemical Physics, 134 (2222). [Details] |
| Mooney, D. A.,McCann, M. T. P.,Rahman, M.,Dowling, D. P.,MacElroy, J. M. D.; (2011) 'Novel, Nanoporous Silica and Titania Layers Fabricated by Magnetron Sputtering'. Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, 3 (22):252-260252. [Details] |
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| Sheridan, J. T.,Close, C. E.,Gleeson, M. R.,Mooney, D. A.; (2011) 'Monomer diffusion rates in photopolymer material. Part II. High-frequency gratings and bulk diffusion'. Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, 28 (44):842-850842. [Details] |
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| Run Long, Niall J. English, Damian A. Mooney; (2010) 'Electronic structures of N- and C-doped NiO from first-principles calculations'. Physics Letters A, 374 (9):1184-1187. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| English, N., Mooney, D. A. and O'Brien, S. W.; (2010) 'Electrical conductivity and dipolar relaxation of binary dimethylimidazolium chloride-water solutions A molecular dynamics study'. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 157 (2-3):163-167. [DOI] [Details] |
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| English, N., Solomentsev, G. and Mooney, D.; (2010) 'Hydrogen bond perturbation in hen egg white lysozyme by external electromagnetic fields: A nonequilibrium molecular dynamics study'. The Journal of chemical physics, 133 (23). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Deshmukh, S, Mooney, D.A., McDermott, T., Kulkarni, S., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2009) 'Molecular modeling of thermo-responsive hydrogels: observation of lower critical solution temperature'. Soft Matter, 5 (7):1514-1521. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Ramamoorthy, A., Rahman, M., Mooney D. A., MacElroy, J. M. and Dowling, D. P.; (2009) 'The influence of process parameters on chemistry, roughness and morphology of siloxane films deposited by an atmospheric plasma jet system'. Plasma Process and Polymers, 6 (6):S530-S536. [Details] | |||||||||
| Dowling, D. P., Ramamoorthy, A., Rahman, M., Mooney, D. A. and MacElroy, J. M. D.; (2009) 'Influence of atmospheric plasma source and gas composition on the properties of deposited siloxane coatings'. Plasma Process and Polymers, 6 :S483-S489. [Details] | |||||||||
| Rahman, M,Amsarani, R,Mooney, DA,MacElroy, JMD,Dowling, DP; (2009) 'Effect of Process Parameters on Chemistry, Growth Rate and Nano-Sized Particulate Formation of Atmospheric Plasma Deposited, nm Thick Siloxane Coatings'. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 9 :3506-3513. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| English, N.J. and Mooney, D.A.; (2009) 'Very Different Responses to Electromagnetic Fields in Binary Ionic Liquid-Water Solutions'. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113 (30):10128-10134. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| English, N.J. and Mooney, D.A.; (2009) 'Electromagnetic field effects on binary dimethylimidazolium-based ionic liquid/water solutions'. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11 (41):9370-9374. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Ramamoorthy, A., Rahman, M., Mooney, D. A., MacElroy, J. M. D., Dowling, D. P., ; (2008) 'Thermal stability studies of atmospheric plasma deposited siloxane films deposited on Vycor (TM) glass'. Surface & Coatings Technology, 202 (17):4130-4136. [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, D.A., and MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) 'Differential Water Sorption Studies of Kevlar 49 and As-Polymerised poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide): Determination of Water transport Properties'. Langmuir, 23 (23):11804-11811. [Details] | |||||||||
| English, NJ,Mooney, DA; (2007) 'Denaturation of hen egg white lysozyme in electromagnetic fields: A molecular dynamics study'. The Journal of chemical physics, 126 . [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Cuffe, L; MacElroy, JMD; Tacke, M; Kozachok, M; Mooney, DA; ; (2006) 'The development of nanoporous membranes for separation of carbon dioxide at high temperatures'. Journal of Membrane Science, 272 (1-2):6-10. [Details] | |||||||||
| Close, C.E.; Gleeson, M.R.; Kelly, J.V. ; Mooney, D.A.; Sheridan, J.T.; (2006) 'Impacts of modifier chemicals on the rates of diffusion in acrylamide/PVA photopolymer'. Proceedings of S.P.I.E, Art. No. 63350S . [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, DA; MacElroy, JMD; ; (1999) 'The influence of intramolecular chain dynamics on the diffusion of small penetrants in semicrystalline aromatic polymers'. The Journal of chemical physics, 110 (22):11087-11093. [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, D.A., and J.M.D.MacElroy; (1997) 'Theoretical Studies of the Structure and Dynamics of Semi-Crystalline PPTA/Water Vapour Interfaces'. Langmuir, 13 (5):1173-1181. [Details] | |||||||||
| English, N.J., Mooney, D.A.; (2007) 'Comment on 'Denaturation of hen egg white lysozyme in electromagnetic fields: A molecular dynamics study' [J. Chem. Phys. 126, 091105 (2007)] - Response'. The Journal of chemical physics, 127 (11 Art. No. 117102). [Details] | |||||||||
| Close, C.E.; Gleeson, M.R.; Kelly, J.V. ; Mooney, D.A.; Sheridan, J.T.; (2006) 'Determination of diffusion rates in Acrylamide-based photopolymer material'. Proceedings of S.P.I.E, Art. No. 61871C . [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, D.A. and MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2004) 'Differential water sorption studies on Kevlar' 49 and as-polymerised poly (p-phenylene terephthalamide): adsorption and desorption isotherms'. Chemical Engineering Science, 59 (11):2159-2170. [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, D.A., Doherty, S., Robbins, E., Pál, I, Newman, C., Hardacre, C., Rooney, D.; (2003) 'Polymer support phosphoraramidites: highly efficient and recyclable catalysts'. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 14 :1517-1527. [Details] | |||||||||
| O. Hahn, D.A. Mooney, F. Müller-Plathe and K. Kremer; (1999) 'A New Mechanism for Penetrant Diffusion in Amorphous Polymers: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Phenol Diffusion in Bisphenol-A-polycarbonate'''. The Journal of chemical physics, 111 :6061-6068. [Details] | |||||||||
| D.A. Mooney, F. Müller-Plathe and K. Kremer; (1998) 'Simulation Studies for Liquid Phenol: Properties Evaluated and Tested over a Range of Temperatures'''. Chemical Physics Letters, 294 :135-142. [Details] | |||||||||
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Conference Publications
| Deshmukh, S., Landowski, M., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2008) Hydrogel Behaviour: A Molecular Simulation Study of Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) AIChE National Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Details] |
| McCann, M, Ramamoorthy, A., Rahman, M., Mooney, D.A., Dowling, D.P., and MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2008) Microporous Silica Coatings on Mesoporous SiO2 and ZrO2 Supports: Membranes for High Temperature Gas Separation Applications AIChE National Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Details] |
| Akter, T., McDermott, T.C., MacElroy, J.M.D., Mooney, D.A.; (2008) Molecular Simulation of the Formation of Ultrathin Silica Films from TEOS (tetraethoxysilane) using Kinetic Monte Carlo AIChE National Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Details] |
| McCann, M., Amsarani, R., Rahman, M., Mooney, D. A., Dowling, D. P. and MacElroy, J. M. D.; (2008) Controlling the architecture of mocro-porous SiOx and TiOx coating for high temperature CO2/air separations 10th International Conference on Inorganic Membranes (ICIMs) Toyko, Japan, [Details] |
| Amsarani, R., Rahman, M., Mooney, D. A., MacElroy, J.M>D and Dowling, D.P.; (2008) The effect of process parameters on the microstructure and thermal stability of siloxane films deposited by a plasma jet system 14th International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces, June 2008, Ireland [Details] |
| M. McCann, R. Amsarani, M. Rahman, D. A. Mooney, D. P. Dowling and J. M. D. MacElroy; (2008) Controlling the Architecture of Micro-porous SiOx and TiOx Coatings for High Temperature CO2/Air Separations The 10th International Conference on Inorganic Membranes (ICIMs), Tokyo, Japan [Details] | |||||||||
| McCann, M.; Rahman, M.; Mooney, D.A.; Dowling, D.; MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Growth of TiOx nano-films by PVD sputtering onto ceramic surfaces as a function of time for the preparation of high performance separation membranes International Meeting on the Developments in Materials, Processes & Applications for Nanotechnology [Details] | |||||||||
| McCann, M., Rahman, M., Mooney, D.A., Dowling, D., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Growth of TiOx nano-films by PVD sputtering onto ceramic surfaces as a function of time for the preparation of high performance separation membranes International Meeting on Developments in Materials, Processes and Applications of Nanotechnology, MPA-2007 Belfast, Northern Ireland, [Details] | |||||||||
| Landowski, M., Deshmukh, S., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Modelling the Drug Release in pH-Sensitive Hydrogels Based on Maa-Co-Hema AIChE National Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A [Details] | |||||||||
| Moloney, J., McDermott, T.C., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Molecular modelling of the creation of novel, ultra-thin, nano-porous layers and supported membranes using chemical vapor deposition AIChE National Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A [Details] | |||||||||
| Deshmukh, S.A., Landowski, M., McDermott, T.C., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Molecular Simulation of Poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide) Hydrogel crosslinked by Glyoxal bis (diallyl acetal): observation of the lower-Critical-solution- temperature Conference on Computational Physics CCP2007, Brussels, Belgium [Details] | |||||||||
| Ramamoorthy, A., R., Rahman, M., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D., Dowling, D.P.; (2007) Experimental studies of atmospheric plasma deposited siloxane coatings SFI Science Summit 2007, CityWest, Dublin [Details] | |||||||||
| Akter, T., McDermott, T.C., MacElroy, J.M.D., Mooney, D.A.; (2007) Modeling of thin silica layers via kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) of TEOS (tetraethoxysilane) deposition onto nonporous substrates Conference on Computational Physics CCP2007, Brussels, Belgium [Details] | |||||||||
| Ramamoorthy, A., R., Rahman, M., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D., Dowling, D.P.; (2007) Effect of process parameters on chemistry, growth rate and particle formation of atmospheric plasma deposited SiOx-siloxane coatings Nanosmat2007 Conference Portugal, [Details] | |||||||||
| Moloney, J., McDermott, T.C., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Studies into the Preparation of Model Microporous Silica and Molecular Simulation of Ultra-thin Oxide Layer Deposition on Porous Substrates Conference on Computational Physics CCP2007, Brussels, Belgium [Details] | |||||||||
| Close,C. E., Sheridan, J. T., Gleeson, M. R., Kelly, J. V., Mooney, D.; (2006) * Photon Management II., SPIE's International Symposium on Photonics Europe Strasbourg, France, , 03-APR-06 - 07-APR-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Close, C. E., Sheridan, J. T., Gleeson, M. R., Kelly, J. V., Mooney, D., O'Neill, F. T.; (2006) Impacts of modifier chemicals on the rates of diffusion in Acrylamide/PVA photopolymer SPIE International Symposium Optical Science and TechnologyOrganic Holographic Materials and Applications IV San Diego, California, USA, , 13-AUG-06 - 17-AUG-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Deshmukh, S.A., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2006) Molecular simulation of pH sensitive hydrogels : structure generation, dynamics and solvent transport Macro-2006, Polymers for Advanced Technologies Pune, India, [Details] | |||||||||
| Deshmukh, S.A., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2006) Molecular modelling of thermo-responsive hydrogels Macro-2006, Polymers for Advanced Technologies Pune, India, [Details] | |||||||||
| Ramamoorthy, A., R., Rahman, M., Mooney, D.A., MacElroy, J.M.D., Dowling, D.P.; (2006) Atmospheric pressure plasma deposition of SiOx coatings on Vycor glass International Conference on Technological Advances of Thin Films & Surface Coatings, OFN 606 Singapore, [Details] | |||||||||
| McDermott, T.C., Kozachok, M., Akter, T., MacElroy, J.M.D., Mooney, D.A; (2006) Atomistic Simulation of the Formation of Nanoporous Silica Films Via Chemical Vapor Deposition AIChE National Annual Meeting San Francisco, USA, [Details] | |||||||||
| English, N.J., Mooney, D.A.; (2007) Denaturation of hen egg white lysozyme in electromagnetic fields: A molecular dynamics study American Chemical Society: Spring Meeting (2007), Chicago, IL, USA, March 25-29 [Details] | |||||||||
| Akter, T.; McDermott, T.; MacElroy, J.M.D.; Mooney, D.A.; (2007) Modeling of thin slica layers via kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) of TEOS deposition CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 5-8, 2007 [Details] | |||||||||
| Akter, T.; McDermott, T.; MacElroy, J.M.D; Mooney, D.A.; (2007) Studies into the Preparation of Model Microporous Silica and Molecular Simulation of Ultra-thin Oxide Layer Deposition on Porous Substrates CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 5-8, 2007 [Details] | |||||||||
| Deshmukh, S.A.; Landowski, M.; McDermott, T.; Mooney, D.A.; MacElroy, J.M.D; (2007) Molecular Simulation of Poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide) Hydrogel crosslinked by Glyoxal bis (diallyl acetal): observation of the lower-Critical-solution- temperature CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 5-8, 2007 [Details] | |||||||||
| McDermott, T.; Mooney, D.A.; MacElroy, J.M.D; (2007) Atomistic Simulation of the Formation of Nanoporous Silica Films via Chemical Vapor Deposition CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 5-8, 2007 [Details] | |||||||||
| Landowski, M.; Deshmukh, S.M.; Mooney, D.A.; MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Modelling The Drug Release In pH-Senitive Hydrogels Based On Maa-Co-Hema Annual AICHE Meeting, Salt Lake City, Nov. 5th-9th 2007 [Details] | |||||||||
| Moloney, J.B.; McDermott, T.C.; Mooney, D.A.; MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2007) Molecular Modeling of the Creation of Novel, Ultra-Thin, Nano-Porous Layers and Supported Membranes Using Chemical Vapor Deposition Annual AICHE Meeting, Salt Lake City, Nov. 5th-9th 2007 [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, D.A.; English, N.J.; (2007) Molecular Simulation Studies of E/m Field Effects on Ionic Liquid Systems Annual AICHE Meeting, Salt Lake City, Nov. 5th-9th 2007 [Details] | |||||||||
| English, N.J., Mooney, D.A.; (2007) Denaturation of hen egg white lysozyme in electromagnetic fields: A molecular dynamics study 7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nanotech 2007, Santa Clara, USA [Details] | |||||||||
| Ramamoorthy, A.; Rahman, M.; Mooney, D.A.; MacElroy, J.M.D; Dowling, D.P.; (2006) Atmospheric pressure plasma deposition of SiOx coatings on Vycor glass Thin Films 2006, Proceedings of 3rd Internation Conference on Technological Advances of Thin Films & Surface Coatings [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, D.A.; Kulkarni, S.; Deshmukh, S.M.; MacElroy, J.M.D.; (2006) Molecular modelling of thermo-responsive hydrogels Proceedings of Macro-2006 (2006), The Society of Polymer Science, Pune, India, December 17-20 [Details] | |||||||||
| Mooney, D.A.; Deshmukh, S.M.; MacElroy, J.M.D; (2006) Molecular simulation of pH sensitive hydrogels : structure generation, dynamics and solvent transport Proceedings of Macro-2006 (2006), The Society of Polymer Science, Pune, India, December 17-20 [Details] | |||||||||
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Editorial
| English, NJ,Mooney, DA; (2007) Comment on 'Denaturation of hen egg white lysozyme in electromagnetic fields: A molecular dynamics study' [J. Chem. Phys. 126, 091105 (2007)] - Response. Editorial [DOI] [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 1991. Title: Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| Year: 1992. Title: Du Pont Research Scholarship |
| Year: 1996. Title: BOC (Research Award), |
Associations
| Association: American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Function/Role: Member |
Committees
| Committee : EU-China Nanotechnology Network |
Employment
| Employer: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Position: Post-doctoral Research Assistant |
| Employer: Unifi Inc. Position: Senior Process Engineer |
| Employer: Queen's University Belfast Position: Lecturer |
| Employer: University College Dublin Position: Lecturer |
Teaching Interests
| Teaching Responsibilities: |
Recent Postgraduates
| Savita Kulkarni (MEng Sc), Michael McCann (PhD), Sanket Deshmukh (PhD), Mateusz Landowski (PhD), Gleb Solomentsev (PhD), John Moloney (PhD) |
Current Postgraduate Students
| Caoimhe de Fréin, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
| Morad El-Hendawy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor |
Modules Taught
| 201100 CHEN10020 Chemical Engineering: Concepts in Engineering I |
| 201100 CHEN20030 Chemical Engineering: Thermodynamics & Kinetics |
| 201100 CHEN40190 Chemical Engineering: Chem&Bioproc Eng DesignProject |
| 201100 CHEN20070 Chemical Engineering: Comput in Chem & Bioproc Eng |