Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others

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• MA, DPhil, DSc (Oxford)

• CEng, FRSC, FIMMM, FREng, FRSE

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My main scientific interests are in the chemistry of materials and geomaterials used in oilfield and civil engineering, and the application of several advanced experimental methods. I have worked extensively on capillary liquid transport in porous construction materials (NMR imaging methods, measurement of transport properties and modelling of capillary flow). At present, my research activities are in experimental methods for studying reactive transport and chemomechanical processes in complex inorganic materials such as rocks and cement-based materials. Our recent work includes the development of synchrotron-based diffraction tomography, the application of scanning probe microscopy to mineral/water reactions; the hydrothermal chemistry of materials under deep borehole conditions; and analysis and chemistry in archaeology and building conservation.

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Prof Dr Bindhu Gururajan is Senior Principal Scientist (Fellow) for Formulation and Process Development and a High Performance Pharmaceutical Development Formulation Project Leader in Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland. He has done his Masters in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of Birmingham, U.K. Later did his Post-Doctoral research in Pharmaceutical Sciences with University of Greenwich, U.K. based in Pfizer Research Center, Sandwich site on granulation process scale up and modelling. He is an Internationally recognised Pharmaceutical Granulation Expert. He has two decades of hands on practical experience in drug development and delivery by working for four major pharmaceutical company namely Merck, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Novartis in his career. He is active senior committee member of the Particle Technology Subject Group of Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). He is certified Chartered Engineer and Chartered Scientist. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Engineers and Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma for quality management system.

He holds several patents for inflammation and oncology (cancer) drug product formulations and widely published in the granulation process research area. He developed the formulation and manufacturing process for two recent breast cancer product Kisqali and Piqray to improve patients life. He is currently work on late phase oncology project in particular formulation and process development by applying Chemical Engineering first principles approach.

2000 - 2004: PhD Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, U.K. 1998 - 2000: MS (by Research) Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 1994 - 1998: B.Tech Chemical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, University of Madras, India

Memberships: CEng, CSci, FIChemE, FRSC, FAPS

• BSc (First Class Hons) in Chemistry, Edinburgh University
• PhD in Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University

• Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Chartered Engineer (C Eng)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
• Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers
• Member of the International Association for Fire Safety Science

• Spontaneous combustion
• Fire investigation.
• Fire behaviour of combustible materials (ignition and fire growth)
• Fire dynamics

• Chairman of the International Association for Fire Safety Science
• Chairman of the Education and Professional Development Committee of the Institution of Fire Engineers
• Editor: Fire Safety Journal

• 1962-1966 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh BSc (Hons), 2nd year class medal
• 1972-1975 PhD University of Edinburgh "The Design of Surface Acoustic Wave Filters and Applications in Future Communication Systems"
• Honorary DEng, Heriot-Watt University
• Honorary DEng, Edinburgh Napier University

• Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
• Fellow Institution Engineering and Technology (FIET)
• Eurasip Fellow
• Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
• Fellow IEEE
• Honorary Professorial Fellow Head School of Engineering and Electronics, 2002-2007
• Regius Professor of Engineering 2007 - 2009
• Professor of Electronic Signal Processing to 2007
• University Curator of Patronage, 2003-2006
• International Professional Awards and Recognition Faraday Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), 2004
• Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York (FIEEE)
• IEEE Signal Processing Society distinguished lecturer on DSP for Mobile Communications, 1998
• President, European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), 2000-2002
• National Professional Fellowships Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
• Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
• Fellow of Institution of Electrical Engineers, London (FIEE)
• Committee Chairs Electronics and Electrical Engineering Panel for the 2001 UK research assessment exercise (RAE)
• Royal Society of Edinburgh Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sectional Committee, 1999-2003
• Mechanisms for Excellence group of the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, 2002-date
• Proceedings IEE Editorial Advisory Panel, IEE 1990-98
• Editorial Advisory Panel, IEE Electronics and Communications Engineering Journal, 1996-2002
• EPSRC Communications Signal Processing and Coding programme, assessment 1993-95 and monitoring panels 1996-97
• Conference Committee Chairs Technical programme, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Glasgow in May 1989
• European Signal Processing conference (EUSIPCO 94), Edinburgh
• Paper Premia Awards Bulgin premium, Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) in 1974 and again in 1977
• IERE Lord Mountbatten premium in 1982
• IEE Marconi premium 1992
• IEE J Langham Thompson premium 1992
• Commercial activities Executive Committee, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications, 2002-2004
• Board Member, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications, 1997-date
• Independent Member, Strategic Advisory Board to the UK Defence Technology Centre in Electromagnetic Remote Sensing, 2003-date
• Board Member of Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre, 2003-date