Claire Adjiman facts for kids

Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman is a smart professor. She teaches Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She is also a special member of the Royal Academy of Engineering. This means she is recognized as a top engineer.

Early Life and School

Claire Adjiman grew up in France. She moved to London in 1988. She studied chemical engineering at Imperial College London. In 1993, she earned her master's degree there.

Later, she went to Princeton University in the United States. She completed her PhD in 1998. Her special project was about 'Global optimization Techniques for Process Systems Engineering'. This means she found ways to make industrial processes work as well as possible.

What She Researches

In 1998, Professor Adjiman started working at Imperial College London. She became a Senior Lecturer in 2003. By 2011, she was made a full Professor. She also taught at the University of Warwick for a few years.

Her research helps design better industrial processes. She looks at tiny molecules to make big systems more efficient. Her team uses computers to create new designs. These designs help save money, materials, and energy. She is an expert in designing systems at the molecular level.

Professor Adjiman works with important industries. She helps the oil and gas industry. She also works on solid oxide fuel cells. These cells can create electricity cleanly. Another area she works on is capturing CO₂. This helps reduce pollution.

In 2012, she received a special fellowship. This helped her lead more research projects. She is now the Director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. She also helps lead the Institute of Molecular Science and Engineering.

Important Awards

Professor Adjiman has received many important awards for her work.

• 2009 - She won the Leverhulme Trust Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering. This award recognizes outstanding researchers.
• 2009 - She also received the Research Excellence Award from Imperial College London.
• 2011 - She gave the Henry Armstrong Lecture for the Society of Chemical Industry. The talk was called Process Design: Don't Take the Molecules For Granted.

In 2015, she was chosen to be part of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2016, she joined the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2023, she was elected to the USA National Academy of Engineering. These are all very high honors for scientists and engineers.

She also helps guide important science journals. She is on the editorial board for Molecular Systems Design & Engineering and Fluid Phase Equilibria. She is an Associate Editor for Chemical Engineering Science and Journal of Global Optimization.