Professor Peter Styring
BSc, PhD, CEng, CSci, CChem, FIChemE, FRSC
EPSRC Senior Media Fellow
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Professor of Public Engagement
Process Fluidics Group
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7571
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7501
email : p.styring@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
After obtaining a First Class Honours Degree in Chemistry and PhD in Liquid Crystal Chemistry from the University of Sheffield I joined the Chemistry Department at the State University of New York in StoneyBrook in what turned out to be a brief but memorable stay.
I returned to the UK to take up an EU Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the School of Chemistry at the University of Hull. I remained at Hull until 2000 as the Thorn EMI / BNR Industrial Lecturer in Chemistry and the DERA Sponsored Lecturer in Computational Chemistry.
I joined the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Sheffield as a Senior Lecturer in September 2000. I was promoted to Personal Chair in January 2007. In summer 2007 I was awarded the additional title of Professor of Public Engagement.
Research interests
- Micro Reactors
- Androgynous Catalysis
- Green, Benign and Sustainable Technologies
- Snow sports Engineering
Current research projects
- Senior Media Fellowship
- Engineering Science in Sport and Everyday Life: Working with TV, Radio and the printed media to encourage public engagement in Engineering and Science - Electromechanical Polymers
Student: Nhan Le, Sponsor: Vietnamese Government
- Synthesis of electromechanical liquid crystalline polymers for applications in micro mechanical structures such as pumps and valves - Biomimetic Aerobic Oxidation of Alkenes using Polymer-supported Catalysts
Student: Jamil Khan
Sponsor: EPSRC
- Development of new skis and snowboards with improved glide and speed on snow and artificial surfaces - C-Cycle: Carbon Capture, Activation and Conversion.
Staff: Dr Ortrud Aschenbrenner
Student: Somsak Supasitmongskol
Sponsors: EPSRC - Snowsports Engineering
- Staff: numerous, including Snowsport England, Sponsor: Polymer Centre, ERDF Objective 1
Development of new skis and snowboards with improved glide and speed on snow and artificial surfaces - Improving the Lifetime of Ice Hockey Sticks
Staff: Professor Peter Styring, Professor Rob Dwyer-Joyce, Dr Matt Carre, Dr Jem Rendong; Student: Sam Parkinson
Sponsor: Sheffield Steelers, KTOF
- Analysis of Ice Hockey stick breakage using remote real-time stress and pressure sensing. The development of new materials for more effective sticks
Selected publications
List of Publications
News and activities
- “Engineering Gold” TV programme for How Science Works broadcast in October 2007
- Member of EPSRC College and Peer Review Panel, including Panel Chair
- Member of IChemE Publications Medals Board
- Member of IChemE Biotechnology Strategy Group
- Founder Member of Young Academics Network in Chemical Engineering (YANCE) Management Committee and co-organiser of first YANCE Conference.
- Member of Board of Sheffield Polymer Centre
Recent invited, plenary and keynote lectures
- “Engineering Gold”, TeachersTV Conference 2007, The Royal Society of London
- Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham
- “Engineering Gold”, 2007 BA Festival York
- “Engineering Gold”, 21st Century Science Conference, After Dinner Lecture, York University
- “Inspiring Post-16 Physics”, 2007, National Science Learning Centre, York University
- “Snowsports Engineering”, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, May 2008
- “Snowsports Engineering”, Institute for Materials and Processes, The University of Edinburgh, May 2008
Teaching
- CPE410 – Product Design Project
Senior Media Fellow Page
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