Current members

Flor Siperstein
Lecturer

Publications

Flor joined the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science in October 2006. Before that she was working at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili as a Ramon y Cajal researcher, studying the properties of surfactants and self-assembled systems, using molecular simulations to understand the formation of hybrid materials and design functional materials with specific active groups in determined locations. Her interest in self-assembling systems started when she joined the Gubbins' Research Group at NCSU to study the formation of MCM-41 type materials, which are periodically ordered mesoporous materials that use surfactant self assemblies as structure directing agents. Her interest in porous materials started during her PhD, where she worked with Professor Alan L. Myers and Professor Ray J. Gorte at the University of Pennsylvania, studying non-ideal behavior of adsorbed mixtures in zeolites.

Hedi Amrouche
PhD student (at IFP)
Carbon dioxide adsorption in novel microporous materials

Andrew Craig
MEng student (2010-2011)
Adsorption of carbon dioxide in microporous polymers

Annalaura Del Regno
Postgraduate student
Materials World Network: flexibility and swelling in PIMs

Helen Dutton
Postdoctoral researcher
InForm project manager (2009-) Silica particles in surfactant liquid crystals (2007-2008)

Arani Elanganathan
MEng student (2010-2011)
Modelling adsorption in MOFs

Aleksandra Gonciaruk
MSc student (2010-2011)
Adsorption in TB polymers

Hugh English
Postgraduate student
Modelling solubility of EVA (in collaboration with A. Masters)

Forood Karimzadeh
MSc student
Carbon dioxide adsorption

Laura Leay
Postgraduate student
Gas adsorption in Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity

Andres Ocampo
MSc student (2010-2011)
Carbon dioxide adsorption

Jonathan O'Gorman
MEng student (2010-2011)
Dissolution of liquid crystals

Mohammadmahdi Safariforoushan
MSc student (2010-2011)
Adsorption of carbon dioxide

Past members

Ahmad Adib Ismail
MEng student (2007-2008)
Adsorption in porous polymers

Aaron Akah
Postdoctoral researcher (2007-2008)
Carbon dioxide adsorption at high pressures (in collaboration with A. Garforth)

Temilade Amure
MEng student (2008-2009)
DPD simulations of surfactant phase inversion

Panthil Desai
MEng student (2009-2010)
Gas adsorption in mesoporous silicas

Oliver Dobson
MEng student (2008-2009)
Gas adsorption in activated carbons

James Magee
Postdoctoral researcher
Modelling dynamics of formation of mesoporous silicas (2007-2009)

Olga Mihailova
MEng student
DPD simulations of liquid crystal dissolutions

Alessandro Patti
Modelling of self assembling hybrid materials
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (PhD 2007) Now at Instituto de Química Avanzada de Cataluña, CSIC - Barcelona.

Tom Rodgers
Phd (2007-2010)
ERT for characterisation of microstructure during surfactant mixing (in collaboration with T. York)
Now at University of Durham

Amanda McDermott
Pennsylvania State University
(July-August 2010)

Lauren Abbott
Pennsylvania State University
(July-August 2010)

Juan Jose Gutierrez Sevillano
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Sevilla, Spain
(21th September-20th November 2009)

Prof. Keith E. Gubbins
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC. USA
(27th April-5th May)
Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Lucia Pousada
Instituto Químico de Sarrià
Barcelona
(Oct 2008-June 2009)

Prof. Coray Colina
Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
(June 16-19, 2008)

Mr. Gregory Larsen
Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
(May 19 - June 19, 2008)

Dr. Vladimir Zelenak
Department of Inorganic Chemistry
P. J. Safarik University
Kosice, Slovak Republic
(April 28 - May 2nd, 2008)

Dr. Miguel Jorge
LSRE
University of Porto
Porto, Portugal
(17th March, 2008)

Dr. Carmelo Herdes
Institute for Materials and Processes
School of Engineering and Electronics
University of Edinburgh
(March 17 - April 7, 2008)

Professor Coray Colina
Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
www.matse.psu.edu/fac/profiles/colina.htm
(May 28-31, 2007)

Mr. Greg Larsen
Postgraduate student
Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
(May 29 - August 17, 2007)

Professor R. Krishna
van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
University of Amsterdam
http://www.science.uva.nl/research/cr/
(June 18, 2007)