Ramsay Society Dinner & Prize Winners 2018

On Friday 23 February, the Department of Chemical Engineering celebrated the Ramsay Society Dinner 2018 at the luxurious St.Pancras Renaissance hotel.

Over 175 guests attended the event, including alumni, students, staff and special guests.

The evening consisted of a welcome drinks reception, three-course meal, speeches and awards presentation.

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Ramsay Society Dinner 2018 - Flickr album

Speeches included:

• Marc-Olivier Coppens - Ramsay Memorial Professor and Head of Department

• Georgia Tickle - Ramsay Society President

• Vasileios Charitopoulos - CheERS President

• Iain Macdonald - Non-executive director and chairman of the Audit Committee at Premier Oil PLC

• Barry Buckland - CEO BioLogicB LLC

Awards Ceremony winners:

SIR DENIS ROOKE SCHOLARSHIP - For the most outstanding first year undergraduate.

• Winner: Louis Nguyen

SIR DENIS ROOKE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP - For outstanding academic performance since MPhil submission.

• Winner: Marco Quaglio (Supervisor Dr. Federico Galvanin)

CHARLES KEEL AWARD - To support two promising undergraduate students starting the second and third year of their programme.

• Year 2 winner: Napattorn Kaweeyanun (not in attendance at the Ramsay Society Dinner)
• Year 3 winner: Andreas Koliandris

LE ROSSIGNOL SCHOLARSHIP - Most academically outstanding Year 2 student.

• Winner: Runzhang Qi

NEWTON PRIZE - For the most deserving PhD graduate in the field of sustainable development.

• Winner: Dami Taiwo (Supervisors Paul Shearing and Dan Brett)

IAB ALUMNI'S BEST POSTER AWARD

• Winner: Vasileios Charitopoulos - CheERS President

IAB BEST POSTER PRESENTATION

• 1st Prize - Tai Bui
• 2nd Prize - Maria Apostolopoulou

DAI BEST VIDEO AWARD - Best short video explaining a difficult chemical engineering concept.

• Winner: Christopher Hutton

DAI BEST PAPER AWARD - For the best paper published in 2017, authored or co-authored by a UCL Chemical Engineering student.

• Winner: Yiou Wang (Supervisor Junwang Tang)

DAI BEST DEMONSTRATOR AWARD
Awarded to the best demonstrator as nominated by students.

• Winner: Vasileios Charitopoulos - CheERS President (Supervisor Vivek Dua)