Dr. Amthal Al-Gailani is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Hull. He received his MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His research is focused on surface engineering, mainly mineral scaling in heat transfer systems, expanding into scale and corrosion inhibitors, while diversifying into fluid remediation using low carbon solutions.
Dr. Ben W. Kolosz is an Assistant Professor in renewable energy and carbon removal at the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull. He holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Leeds and has held prestigious research appointments in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is a former member of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania (USA). His work seeks to understand the dynamics and quantification of environmental emissions and the energy needs of technological systems. His research also aims to anticipate the impact of new technologies and their infrastructure, and to develop practical modeling strategies for avoiding negative impacts, as well as the societal consequences of using such technologies on local and global communities. His research interests include geospatial integration strategies for carbon dioxide removal technologies coupled with renewable energy, as well as low-carbon mine remediation using waste carbon and geothermal energy supplies from mine wastewater. His methods to accomplish this work include but are not limited to Lifecycle Analysis (LCA), Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is a member of the Institute for Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society.
Dr. Kin Wai Cheah is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies of Teesside University. Having received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, and operating as a researcher at Aston University, United Kingdom in the Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute. Dr Cheah was also a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull before joining Teesside University. His research interest primary lies in the area of the thermochemical conversion of biomass with subsequent catalytic upgrade to renewable biofuels.
Dr. Martin J. Taylor gained an MChem in Chemistry from the University of Hull and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Aston University, working in the Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute. Martin has over 10 years of experience in heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, nanomaterials, materials science, and environmental remediation. After a brief period in industry, he returned to the University of Hull in 2018 as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Energy and Environment Institute. In 2022, he became an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Hull, building his research group and developing outputs in green chemistry and sustainable chemical processes, waste to low-carbon fuels, waste to mesoporous materials for environmental protection as well as carbon capture and storage.
