On Friday 22d February, the Department of Chemical Engineering had the pleasure of welcoming 190 guests to the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel to host the 2019 Ramsay Society Dinner.

The event brought together students, staff and alumni to celebrate the Department’s achievements and included a one-hour drinks reception followed by a 3-course dinner, speeches and awards ceremony. 

Speeches by:

Ramsay Society Dinner 2019 welcome speech by Head of Department Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens

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

Ramsay Society President Simran Sangla

Simran Sangla - Ramsay Society President

Giovanni Meridiano CheERS President

Giovanni Meridiano - CheERS President

Trevor Evans - Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow / Lead consultant

Trevor Evans - Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow / Lead consultant

Shahid Janatmir - 3rd Year Engineering (Chemical) MEng programme scholarship student

Shahid Janatmir - 3rd Year Engineering (Chemical) MEng programme scholarship student

Awards Ceremony winners:


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

Sir Denis Rooke Research Scholarship Winner Jennifer Hack

  • Winner: Jennifer Hack (Supervisors Prof Paul Shearing and Prof Dan Brett)


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

Honora Driscoll

  • Winner: Honora Driscoll

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

Charles Keel Award Winners Yanzhe Wen and Son Hoang Luu Nguyen

  • Year 2 winner: Yanzhe Wen
  • Year 3 winner: Son Hoang Luu Nguyen
     

LE ROSSIGNOL SCHOLARSHIP - Most academically outstanding Year 2 student.

Winner: Napattorn Kaweeyanun (not in attendance)

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

Newton Prize Winners Vasileios Charitopoulos and Thomas Heenan

Joint winners:
 
  • Thomas Heenan (Supervisors Prof Paul Shearing and Prof Dan Brett)
  • Vasileios Charitopoulos (Supervisors Dr Vivek Dua and Lazaros Papageorgiou)


CheERS Society poster competition

The competition had 5 winners and 33 participants:

Malica Schmidt wins joint Best Poster Prize in CheERS Poster Competition Malica Schmidt wins joint Best Poster Prize in CheERS Poster Competition

  • Alumni’ Choice Best Poster: Malica Schmidt (pictured right) and Abeer Khedr (not in attendance)

Alumni Choice Poster Prize Runner-up Maximiliano Jesus Jara Fornerod

  • Runner-up: Maximiliano Jesus Jara Fornerod

IAB’s choice:

  • Best Poster: Conor Waldron
  • Runner-up:  Sergio Medina Gonzalez

Digital Applications International Limited (DAI) Awards:

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

  • Winner: Marta Ganet - (not in attendance)

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

  • Winner: Oluwamayowa Amusat (not in attendance)

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

Maria Apostolopoulou DAI Best Demonstrator Award

  • Winner: Maria Apostolopoulou - (Supervisor Prof Alberto Striolo )
     

Goodbye and thank you

Cicely Striolo

At the event, the Department said goodbye and thank you to Cicely Striolo (Teaching Fellow).
 

Ramsay Society Dinner photos

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