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Welcome to Richard Bourne’s research group, located in the Institute of Process Research and Development (iPRD) at the University of Leeds. The iPRD is a joint institute between the School of Chemical and Process Engineering and School of Chemistry.

News

Papers Accepted!

Check out this great article in Chemical Engineering Journal by Oliver Kershaw and Adam Clayton. In this work we use machine learning (MVMOO) automated flow reactors for the rapid optimisation of continuous (e.g. temp, time) and discrete (e.g. catalyst) variables. Link here


Interested in optimising multistage processes? This fantastic article in Angewandte Chemie shows the potential of Bayesian Optimisation with automated reactors to developed a holistically optimised process. Link here

Can advanced automated stopped flow reactors be used for library synthesis? Yes they can! Check out this work by Claudio Avila and the IPRD team! link here

Fellowship Success!!

Many congratulations to Adam Clayton for securing a 5 year RAEng Research Fellowship at Leeds to develop automated telescoped processes!!! All the best for his future independent career.

New Team Members

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It is a pleasure to welcome three new team members:

Conor Dougen is a new first year PhD student and joins us from the University of Loughborough. He will be joining the EPSRC FLEXICHEM project with CASE sponsorship from Syngenta

Zara Arshad is a 1st year PhD CASE award student and has joined us from the University of Leeds (following her MChem with us!). She is joining an AZ/UCB consortium project to develop more sustainable optimisations!

Joe Marsden is joining the group from the University of Cambridge to develop multistage self-optimising systems and is also part of the AZ/UCB consortium as a CASE sponsored student.

Welcome Conor, Zara and Joe!!