Welcome
The Institute of Particle Science & Engineering (IPSE) – a centre of excellence helping to improve quality of life by addressing the engineering science of particulate processes and products.
Research areas are based on the disciplines of Chemical Engineering and Mineral Process Engineering.
Our vision is “To collaborate with future postgraduate research students, academics, postdoctoral research fellows and industry to improve quality of life through technological innovations.”
Research focuses on the engineering science of advanced particulate systems applied to a range of sectors including:
- Healthcare incl. foods, pharmaceuticals
- personal and household products incl. polymers, biomaterials, fine chemicals
- Minerals and fuels e.g. nuclear
All of the above harness strengths and expertise in measurement, modelling and manufacture applied across both the spatial and temporal length scales.
Current activities are organised within 3 main areas.
The institute also leads two Enterprise & Knowledge Transfer centres: the ParticlesCIC and the Keyworth Institute as well as the BNFL/Nexia Alliance, Malvern IntelliSense Partnership and the NanoManufacturing Institute.
IPSE is one of three institutes within SPEME; a research oriented School with a high '5' rating from the RAE 2001 research review and rated 3rd after Oxford and Cambridge with a GPA of 3.00 in the RAE 2008 review.
Activity Indicators:
- £15.1m research expenditure
- 17 Academic staff
- 21 Post-doctoral Research Assistants
- 23 Visiting Professors & Fellows
- Over 60 Research students (click for Research Student Profiles)
- Click for a list of thesis titles 2001-2007
- Click for a full list of IPSE Research Publications 2001-2007
IPSE’s research performance was evaluated by the International Review Panel of the EPSRC in 2005 in a national survey, the outcome of which confirmed our world leading position in this field. More recently our Institute was awarded ‘Gold Peak of Excellence’ in an internal evaluation of research performance by the University of Leeds.
Industrial Collaborations
IPSE places a strong emphasis on transfer of knowledge to industry and technology transfer organizations. This takes the form of licenses, spin-out activities, IP filings, consultancies, conference organization and training through short courses. We collaborate with well over 15 academic institutions worldwide and 25 industrial organizations, which financially support nearly half of our research income. In particular we value greatly the support of Astra Zeneca, Borax Europe, BP, Danone, Disperse, Du Pont (US), Genencor International, GSK, ICI, IFPRI, Henkel, Hosokawa Micron, Johnson Matthey, Malvern Instruments, MIRO, MSD, Nexia Solutions, Novozymes, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Syngenta, Imerys, Shell Global Solutions, Unilever and Uniqema.