Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others

Dr Nan Yu is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and the Deputy Director of MSc Digital Design and Manufacture.

Nan was trained at Cranfield University (PhD: plasma figuring of large optics), University College Dublin (UCD, as a postdoc in precision manufacturing of medical devices), and the European Organisation of Nuclear Research (CERN, as an Associate Scientist in precision alignment and metrology). He has established academic reputation in precision manufacturing and advanced plasma technologies as evidenced by over £ 1 M funding secured as PI, more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, 4 paper awards and 10 invited/keynote talks. Nan receives the prestigious Marie Curie International Fellowship (2018-2020), Irish Research Council Fellowship (2020), and Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship (2023-2024). He holds two visiting appointments at UCD (2021-2026) and Osaka University (2022-2024).

PgCAP in Higher Education (2023), Edinburgh

PhD in Precision Engineering (2017), Cranfield

MSc in Mechanical Manufacturing (2013), Harbin;

BSc in Mechanical Engineering (2011), Harbin;

2018 Professional Certificate of Entrepreneurial Educators, UCD, National University of Ireland;

2018 International Scientific Committee member of European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN);

2019 Member of International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET);

2021 Research Affiliate of International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP);

2021 Member of EPSRC Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research;

2022 Fellow of Royal Society for Art, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA);

2023 Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA)

1. Conceptual Design for Mechanical Engineers 3 (Course Organiser);

2. BEng Mechanical Engineering Project 4;

3. Digital Manufacturing 5;

4. Metrology in MSc Digital Design and Manufacture (Course Organiser)

5. MEng Mechanical Engineering Project 5

Chair, 12th CIRP Global Web Conference (CIRPe 2024)

https://suspromgroup.eng.ed.ac.uk/

Maria Grazia De Angelis is a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering Principles at the University of Bologna and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UK), where she leads the SusProm Group. Her research is dedicated to the design of products (biodegradable packaging, selective membranes) and sustainable processes (CO₂ capture, water purification, wearable hemodialysis). She is currently engaged in integrating various theories, including AI, to enhance the capability of designing materials for separation.

She is the Chair of the Working Party on Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (2022-2028). She was the Vice President of the European Membrane Society (2019-23). She is a co-author of more than 100 publications in international journals in the field of membrane science, thermodynamics, and computational material science (Google Scholar).

She has been a Researcher or Visiting Professor at

• University of Melbourne, Australia
• Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
• National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• North Carolina State University, USA.

Go to the Group SusProM Website

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2002, University of Bologna
• Master Degree in Chemical Engineering, 1998, University of Bologna

• Chair of the Working Party on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties, European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) , 2022-present
• Treasurer and Vice President, European Membrane Society Council, 2019-2023
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Research Area " 

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

• Molecular, multiscale and AI-enhanced modeling of materials with selective capacity (membranes, porous sorbents)
• Barrier and permeability properties testing
• CO₂ capture
• Water purification
• Hemodialysis
• Biodegradable packaging
• Hydrogen

Associate Member of IChemE Member of AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering) Member of European Membrane Society Member of AIChE

-Member of the Editorial Board of Membranes and Fluid Phase Equilibria

-Editor of the Special Issue "Fundamentals of Transport in Polymers and Membranes—Honorary Issue for Professor Giulio C. Sarti" 2022

-Editor of the Special Issue "Gas Transport in Glassy Polymers" 2020-2021

-Watch my webinar “Membranes for CO₂ Capture: Thermodynamic aspects” given during the EFCE Spotlight Talks, December 3rd 2020. Organized by the European Federation of Chemical Engineers. -Host of the European Membrane Society Live Webinars Series, watch them on Youtube