Dominik Werner is a specialist in particle technology with vast experience in fluidised bed imaging, zero-gravity granular damper experiments, simulations of self-optimising granular systems and positron emission particle tracking. His digital models of industrial-scale fluidised beds, high-shear mixers, conveying equipment and powder characterisation instruments are actively used by companies such as Recycling Technologies, FMC, JDE, Mondelez, P&G, Unilever and AstraZeneca.
Andrei Leonard Nicusan is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham focusing on data-driven engineering across scales. He published featured articles and Scientific Highlights on machine learning-based positron emission particle tracking algorithms. His work on evolutionary algorithms for simulation calibration, optimisation and physics discovery in granular mechanics has raised more than £260,000 from research and industrial funding bodies. His frameworks are actively being used in projects with companies such as AstraZeneca, Unilever, P&G, Mondelez, JDE, GranuTools.
Jack Sykes is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham, focusing on topological data analysis applied to industrial and medical problems. An application expert, he worked on powder characterisation, positron emission imaging of graphene production, monocrystalline turbine blade defect investigation and aneurysm imaging in 3D-printed arteries. He coupled modern evolutionary algorithms with discrete element method models and Monte Carlo tomographic emission simulation software.
Kit Windows-Yule is a Turing Fellow, a Royal Society Industry Fellow, a two-time Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow, and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His research, both academic and industrial, aims to address significant contemporary challenges in science, medicine and industry by exploiting the synergy of experimental techniques, numerical simulation and machine-learning methodologies. The versatility of the techniques used by Dr. Windows-Yule, which include optical, nuclear and magnetic imaging, and diverse numerical simulation techniques, allow his research to span multiple disciplinary boundaries, facilitating a highly diverse research portfolio. Current projects include work, funded by EPSRC, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society, developing novel plastic recycling methods, work funded by the British Heart Foundation aiming to develop novel methods of blood-flow imaging for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, and diverse industry-funded projects in the pharmaceutical, food, agriculture, chemical, personal care and green energy sectors with companies including AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Mondelez, Johnson Matthey, Unilever and the French Petroleum Institute’s Energies Nouvelles arm. He has won industry-focussed research funding totalling in excess of £3M.