Overview

Join us for the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the Computer Aided Process Engineering Special Interest Group during the ChemEngDayUK 2025 conference! With an increasingly fast-paced market environment, process industries together with the wider energy sector are undergoing a transformative period. During this session, you will be exposed to the latest developments from the process systems engineering community on the latest advances focused on Sustainability and next-generation tools for process systems engineering problems.

ChemEngDayUK aims to bring together students, researchers, educators, and industrialists to showcase the latest in chemical engineering research, innovation, and technology through a combination of distinguished plenary speakers and presentations from academics, researchers and students from across UK universities and industry, covering topics including:

• Sustainability and Circular Economy
• Energy
• Particle and Particulate Engineering
• Process Modelling and Simulation
• Bioprocessing & Biotechnology
• Education

The two-day conference is hosted by a member university of Heads of Chemical Engineering UK (HCEUK), an independent body established in 2015 to facilitate channels of communication between key chemical engineering stakeholder groups across universities and higher education establishments to further the interests of chemical engineering in higher education teaching and research.

The event has previously been hosted by notable universities such as Imperial College London in 2024, Queens College, Belfast in 2023, and UCL in 2022.

Annual meeting speakers

Dr Gbemi Oluleye

Dr Oluleye is a Lecturer at the Grantham Institute Imperial College London, specialising in developing data-driven computational models to evaluate how market-based mechanisms can trigger economic tipping points for industrial decarbonisation solutions, with a focus on heavy sectors. Her expertise lies at the intersection of engineering, policy, economics, and finance. Gbemi also leads the Executing Sustainability Strategies Executive Education Programme and serves as Programme Director for the CPD on Green Leaders for a Sustainable Future.

Dr Smitha Gopinath

Dr Gopinath holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London and was a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Mathematics & Plasma Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her interests are mathematical formulations for superstructure optimization; algorithms for molecular design; and global optimization techniques. The applications of her work include electrification via tailored heat pumps, design of solvents for carbon capture, and globally optimal power transmission networks.

Dr Alessandro Usai

Dr Usai is a Lead Developer and Solution Owner at Siemens, specializing in bioprocess modeling for the pharmaceutical industry. His expertise lies in mechanistic and hybrid modeling techniques applied to both upstream and downstream bioprocessing, with a particular focus on bioreactors, lyophilization, and freezing/thawing processes. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science from the University of Manchester, where he concentrated on microalgal cultivation systems

Registration closed 9 April 2025.