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Professor Pat Guiry
STRAND 1 LEADER AND PRINCIPAL
INVESTIGATOR
Email: patrick.guiry@ucd.ie
Prof. Pat Guiry is a Professor of Synthetic Organic
Chemistry at University College Dublin. Prof. Guiry holds
a PhD and a BSc (Hons), Chemistry from University
College Dublin. In 2013 Prof. Guiry was elected as a
Member of the Royal Irish Academy and in 2014, Prof.
Guiry was appointed Royal Irish Academy Vice-Chair, Physical, Chemical and Mathematical
Sciences and was awarded the Boyle-Higgins Medal by the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.
Prof. Guiry’s research specialises in synthetic organic chemistry, with interests in both the
development of asymmetric synthetic methodology through the application of new chiral
ligands in homogeneous metal-catalysed transformations and in the total synthesis of
compounds of biological interest.
Professor Åke C Rasmuson
STRAND 2 LEADER AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Email: Ake.Rasmuson@ul.ie
Prof. Rasmuson is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Industrial
Chemistry at the University of Limerick (UL). Having received both an
MSc and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, Prof. Rasmuson went on to
receive a chair at KTH before joining UL in 2008. Prof. Rasmuson’s main
field of research is various aspects of crystallization and crystallization
processes including: fundamentals of solubility, nucleation, growth and
agglomeration; experimental determination of solution thermodynamics
and crystallization kinetics; crystallization of organic molecules from
solution; influence of hydrodynamics and mixing in crystallization
processes; and batch crystallization process design. In addition, Prof.
Rasmuson has experience of hydrodynamics and mixing in agitated
tanks, recovery of methane from anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge
and recovery of rare earth elements from mineral waste and spent car
batteries. Prof. Rasmuson has been the adviser of 23 PhD programs, 23
Licentiate theses and approximately 70 MSc theses.
The research group at present
has six postdoctoral researchers
and six PhD students. Prof.
Rasmuson has published 112
papers in scientific journals,
presented 54 conference papers
and coauthored 30 reports for
industrial cooperation projects.
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