Vanessa Blake

Name:	Vanessa Blake
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
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• First Year Talks
• Hobbes Leviathan
• Scientific Writing: Deliberate practice makes you better
• A Short Summer Course in: Optimisation (2)
• A Short Summer Course in: Optimisation (1)
• Science Fiction and Current Research – an Expert Discussion
• Cellulose Biointerface for Paper Diagnostics
• Machine Learning: What Is It, and What Is It Good For?
• BREAKING THE SILENCE – Where you draw the line?
• Mixed-Integer Fractional Programming: Models, Algorithms, and Applications in Process Operations, Energy Systems, and Sustainability
• Cell-Material interface investigated via SEM/focused ion beam
• The St Petersburg Paradox and other Puzzles From The Past
• Commercializing sensor ideas - A bootstrapping model
• Beacon Salon # 8 The Dawn of the Antibiotic Age
• Optical Coherence Tomography for Pharmaceutical Coatings and Coping with the Raw Data Nightmare
• Avian-inspired Wing Morphing for Small UAV
• Part IIB Poster Presentations
• Sensor challenges in single molecule DNA sequencing
• Part IIB Poster Presentations
• Designing Sensors for Motorsport
• The world is not flat: towards 3D cell biology and 3D devices
• Beacon Salon #7 Imaging Far and Wide
• Going 3D: expansion, differentiation and migration of adult human stem cells in 3D cell culture systems.
• Micro-engineering for the fabrication of specific living neuron circuits
• Fluorogen Switch
• Probing microstructure in pharmaceutical solids using terahertz radiation
• Aristotelian Logic for Engineers
• The Drake Equation
• New understanding of collective modes and thermodynamics of the liquid state
• Methane Leakage and the Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Natural Gas
• Emergent Many-body Interactions in Amorphous Solids
• The Global Warming Sceptic
• The ‘Easy’ and ‘Hard’ Problems of Consciousness
• Common Sense Reduced to Mathematics
• Fibre based laser technology - taking basic research into application and forming a multi million pound business
• Modified starch polymers and blends for packaging, industrial and biomedical applications
• Time series forecasting touching on evolutionary numerical optimization
• 3D printed Porous Media - Disrupting the Packed Bed Paradigm
• Sustainable Manufacture of Fine Chemicals and Polymers using Continuous Flow Processing
• Statistical physics of complex fluids - From metallic alloys to protein suspensions
• Biofunctionalised Nanotools for New Materials Design
• Development of Nanomaterials and Microscale Platforms for Optical and Electrochemical Biosensing
• 1st year seminars 2015, session 5
• 1st year seminars 2015, session 4
• 1st year seminars 2015, session 3
• 1st year seminars 2015, session 2
• 1st year seminars 2015, session 1
• Graduate Conference
• Graduate Conference
• Molecular choreography: Towards the engineering of antibody behaviour.
• Transport-driven dynamics in bio-inspired systems
• Publishing in the Nature Group
• Some dynamics of brine and compressible vapour flows in permeable conduits
• Particle-Laden Flows in Rotating Drums: The Silent Secrets
• Industrial sustainability - a key manufacturing paradigm
• The Hydrodynamics of Particulate Flow: a Multi-scale Approach
• Reactors, reactors, everywhere: chemical engineering, chemical gardens, and the origin of life
• Coal and Biomass – Synergies and Opportunities
• Maxwell's Demon and the Nuclear Pore Complex
• LCA in waste and energy systems, biochemical processes and catalysis
• Every Man's Fluid Mechanics
• Coal and Biomass – Synergies and Opportunities
• Unsteady flow of yield stress materials
• Bio-inspired Hybrid Materials for Solar Fuel Synthesis
• Particles and mixing in turbulent plumes and fountains
• Exploring AI to Program and Network Chemical Reactor Systems: Towards Novel Molecular and Chemical Systems Discovery
• Early Days of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge
• Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and therapeutic intervention
• GRASPING COMPLEXITY OF CHEMICAL KINETICS
• Process intensification technologies at ExxonMobil: Reverse-Flow Reforming, and On-Board Fuel Separation
• From Surface Chemistry to Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Adsorption Processes on Metal- Organic Frameworks. A Combination of Experimental Techniques and Molecular Simulation
• Fluid Flow and Fouling in Falling Film Evaporators
• Enhanced Reactivity in Metal-Organic Frameworks
• Accurate CO2-CH4 Dispersion Measurements in Sandstones for Enhanced Gas Recovery Simulations
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013
• Bio-mass Pyrolysis - a cog in the changing energy and chemicals economy
• An overview of current carbon capture and storage options
• Analysis of Biochemical Networks in Bioinformatics
• Developments in meso reactor technology
• From structure to stomach; the use of thermal imaging methods to characterise pharmaceutical dosage forms
• Scalar dissipation rate in an unsteady turbulent jet
• Non-thermal effects of terahertz radiation on gene expression in mouse stem cells
• Transformation of carbonaceous materials in the oil industry
• NUMERICAL MODELING OF YIELD-STRESS FLUIDS VS. THIXOTROPIC FLUIDS FLOWS
• 1st year PhD student presentations
• 1st year PhD student presentations
• 1st year PhD student presentations
• 1st year PhD student presentations
• 1st year PhD student presentations
• This seminar has been cancelled
• Impact response of polymer-metal laminates
• Quo vadis adsorption technology? -- An overview about future trends
• 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters
• 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters
• Title to be confirmed
• 2nd Year Posters and Presentations
• 2nd Year Posters and Presentations
• Liposomal delivery of vaccines - formulation engineering to manipulate immune responses
• Influence of particle shape on extrusion processes
• Predicting structure and dynamics in molecular crystals: towards computation-led characterisation and design of materials
• Challenges for stem cell bioprocessing - scale-up or scale-out?
• The Complexity, Modularity and Evolution of Self-Assembling Structures
• Design and Engineering of Nano-particles and their Applications to Advanced Nano-composites, Drug Delivery System and Solar Cell
• 1st Year PhD student Seminars 2011
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2011
• Optimisation: Formulations, Algorithms and Applications (…but no algebraic spaghetti) Part 2
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2011
• Optimisation: Formulations, Algorithms and Applications (…but no algebraic spaghetti) Part 1
• 1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2011
• The current nuclear situation in Japan
• Inventing apparatus and processes
• Technical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response
• New Developments in Processing of Hollow Fibre Membranes for Separation Processes
• High-Throughput Chemistry and Biology in Segmented Flows
• 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters
• 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters
• 2nd year PhD student presentations and posters
• Function without structure: the role of intrinsically disordered proteins in stress tolerance
• Revisiting Soot Oxidation
• Lucite International's new process for Methyl Methacrylate
• Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over supported cobalt catalysts
• Plastic processes for shaping particulates
• Probing the mechanical properties of surfaces, polymer layers and cells with an atomic force microscope
• Oscillatory Flow Mixing
• Capillary electrophoresis: an introduction to theory and current practise
• A potted history of scaled down bioprocessing
• Whither fossil fuels? Towards cleaner exploitation.
• Trade-offs between model accuracy and numerical complexity: example of a 3D Interactive Real Time Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit simulation on a PC
• Shape Changing Particles
• The proteome: What is happening at the 'business end' of a cell?
• Colloidal flying carpets
• From Well-defined Macromonomers to Sterically-stabilised Latexes to Pickering Emulsions to Colloidosomes: Exerting Control over Multiple Length Scales
• Stripped naked: charge promiscuity in a redox enzyme as a means to biosensor design
• Energy storage in acquifers
• Energy storage in acquifers
• Marangoni flows in jets
• Marangoni flows in jets
• Instabilities in free surface flows
• Instabilities in free surface flows
• Cytotopic Pharmacology: Engineering Protein and Peptide Agents to Function at the Cell Surface - a Bench to Bedside Story
• To be confirmed
• Research Students’ Seminars
• Research Students’ Seminars
• Research Students’ Seminars
• Chemical looping combustion
• Lattice-Boltzmann modelling of biofilm growth and development
• Multidimensional Microscopy
• Structure development during chocolate manufacture
• MRI measurements of chemical composition and temperature in trickle bed reactors
• Polymer Supports for Solid-Phase Organic Chemistry Reactors
• Emulsion Phase Inversion
• Spectroscopic Studies of Moisture Transport in Food Wafer Systems
• Numerical study of the formation and growth of soot particles in combustion devices
• Fluid Dynamic Gauging in Annular geometries
• Modelling of HCCI Engine
• Sustainability
• Use of expanded bed adsorption to purify flavonoids from Ginkgo. biloba leaves
• Simulating the SI-HCCI transition
• The production of pure hydrogen from a carbonaceous fuel with simultaneous CO2 capture
• Use of ultrasound and magnetic particles in targeted therapy
• Clean coal technology: A novel process for the combustion of coal using an oxygen carrier
• Fouling in heat exchangers of crude distillation units
• New insights into the dissolution process of a controlled drug release polymeric matrix revealed by quantitative ultra-fast MRI
• Modelling Particle Motion within Rotating Cylinders
• Controlling encrusting organisms in potable water treatment works
• The role of Chemical Engineers and Chemical Engineering in the understanding of Global Macroeconomics
• Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport
• Disease Biomarkers in first-onset Schizophrenia
• Non-uniqueness of instabilities in free-surface flows
• Exhaust After-treatment Catalysis
• Interfacial structural conformations of proteins and DNA fragments
• Research Students’ Seminars
• Protein aggregation: teasing out generalities
• Hydrogen bond adsorption chromatography for the separation of polyphenols exemplified by the purification of active components in traditional Chinese medicine
• Bioengineering and the skin. Transdermal technologies for drug delivery and clinical monitoring.
• Direct synthesis and spinning of carbon nanotube fibres
• A chemical engineer's perspective on systems biology illustrated by a model-based analysis of eukaryotic protein synthesis
• Self organization of discrete fibre reinforcements in polymer flows
• Nanoporous Solids: The Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis.
• Extruding opals and other stories: The Self-assembly of NanoMaterials for Light
• Research Students Presentations
• Simulating Biofilm Growth and Detachment in Porous Media using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
• The Micro-rheology of structured polymers
• Optimal control and optimisation of chemotherapy treatments
• Binder removal and defect formation during debinding of ceramic cores
• Carbon nanotube suspensions : processing and properties
• From Novel Fuels to NanoParticle Formation: a Multiscale Computational Approach
• Rheology of marmite
• Applications of pulsed field gradient NMR techniques to study diffusion in porous media
• Applications of laser diagnostics to turbulent premixed flames
• Lattice Boltzmann MRI studies of biofilm systems
• Micro-bioreactors
• Microreactors
• Making viral gene therapy vectors
• Wavelength agile laser sensor for high-speed and ultra-sensitive detection
• Polymer crystallisation
• MRI studies of chemical reactors
• Production of hydrogen from coal
• Thermal treatment of cake flours
• Biostabilisation of mammalian cells
• Microcapillary films
• Application of advanced NMR techniques to agrochemical systems
• Some aspects of the energy scene
• Experimental and CFD modelling investigations of dense gas-solid fluidized beds
• The Chameleon Plane
• The Buncefield explosion
• Challenges for UK Innovation and Entrepreneurial Chemical Engineering.
• Research Students’ Seminars
• Foam Fractionation of Biosurfactants
• Title to be confirmed
• Mathematical modelling of directed cell migration
• Studies of Contact Mechanics Employing the Quartz Crystal Microbalance
• Structure formation in rotating turbulence
• Dye-sensitized solar cells - finding out how they work
• Research Student presentations
• The control of crystal sizes and crystal size distributions with the oscillatory meso-reactor
• Protein Crystallisation
• High-throughput determination of protein stability and refolding in microtiter plates
• Design of Experiments
• Application of the combined SPH and DEM techniques to simulate realistic Beer
• Application of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics to simulate multi fluid flows with large density differences and application to mixing of paints
• Biodiesel Production: Different Aspects of the Process
• Rheology of Core Cross-Linked Star Polymers
• Experimental and modelling investigations of turbulent and laminar multiphase flows
• Micro-macro-interactions and transport processes of dense particle systems
• Putting Structure into a Structured Product
• Colloidosome Microcapsules
• A stochastic reactor model for simulating direct injection HCCI engines
• Sticky business: adhesion to surfaces
• Micro and Nano voltammetric studies: A numerial approach
• Characterisation of complex fluids using MRI
• Multidimensional modelling of granulation
• Modelling the combustion synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles
• The heterogeneous reaction of oxides of nitrogen with carbonaceous particles
• Magnetic resonance studies of catalysts and catalytic processes
• Chemically Resolved MRI Mapping of Multiphase Reactors
• Quantitative fluorescence microscopy
• Investigating the motion of particles within gas-solid fluidised beds using MRI and PIV
• MRI studies of controlled release pharmaceutical delivery systems
• Fouling Behaviour of Food Fats
• Stickiness and caking in dairy powders during manufacture or transport
• Studies of Environmentally Responsive Polymer Systems using Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
• MRI velocimetry studies of multiphase systems
• Dissolution mechanisms of protein gels
• Rheology and Processing of Pharmaceutical Pastes
• Modelling drying and particle formation in spray towers
• The drying of detergents
• Improved solutions for zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) control
• Modelling soot and carbon nanotube formation
• CETIIB Posters and Presentations
• CETIIB Posters and Presentations
• Development and Production of Nuclear Probes for Molecular Imaging in-vivo
• New Technologies in Bioseparations and Biosensing from Engineered Multi-domain Self-modifying Proteins
• Extensional rheometry of inhomogeneous thickener solutions for coating applications
• International Interfaces
• Mixing in stratified fluids
• Stresses in drying films
• Creating and Harnessing Complex Reaction Networks
• Research Students’ Seminars
• Knowledge Based Process Engineering: Hybrid Modelling of Industrial Fed-batch Processes
• Transduction of chemical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa using polymer brushes