Double celebration for Department
Chemical
engineering lecturer Dr Laura Torrente has been awarded the Young Researcher's Prize for
the Best Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors
(ICCMR10), held in St Petersburg, Russia.
Laura's award-winning paper was titled Hollow Fibre Membrane Reactors for High Yield: Catalyst and Process Integration, and presented work carried out in collaboration with Professors David Chadwick and Kang Li at Imperial College.
Laura has also been invited to publish this work in a special issue of Catalysis Today.
The department has also welcomed Dr Mirella Di Lorenzo, who joined on 1 July as a lecturer.
Mirella has come to Bath from the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of Lecce, Italy.
After graduating with honours in Chemical Engineering in 2004 at the Federico II University of Napoli, Italy, Mirella stayed in the same University to complete her PhD in Industrial Biotechnology. She also worked at the University of Greifswald in Germany. In 2007 she came to the UK to work as a post-doctoral researcher at Newcastle University before moving to Lecce.
Mirella's research interests are in biofuel cell technology - the conversion of organic chemicals into electricity catalyzed by enzymes - with applications as potential power sources for a number of biomedical devices.
