Chris Rielly

Chris Rielly has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University since 1999 and prior to that was a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1986. He has been a CMAC researcher on many projects, e.g. EPSRC National Centre for Innovative Manufacturing for Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation, an academic lead in the DTC, the ICT CMAC EPSRC project Intelligent Decision Support and Control Technologies for Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals, EPSRC ARTICULAR and the EPSRC CMAC Future Manufacturing Research Hub. He has a track record of work-package leadership in many multi-partner, large scale research projects funded by EPSRC and the EU, whilst simultaneously have a role as an Associate Dean for Research and now Dean of the School of Aero, Auto, Chemical and Materials Engineering at Loughborough University. Chris has more than 35 years of experience in experimental and computational fluid mechanics, applied to multi-phase flow, mixing and control of chemical reactors, fermenters and crystallizers. Recent work includes the combined use of population balance modelling, process simulation and PAT-enabled methods (in situ measurements of solution and particle properties) to control nucleation and growth in batch and continuous flow crystallisers, to achieve a target size distribution and morphology of a particulate product.