CHEME 7900 Seminar: Roberto Volpe (Queen Mary University)

Bio: Roberto Volpe is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Engineering and Materials Science. He designs pyrolysis and gasification experiments to study the fundamental aspects of biomass thermal decomposition. His expertise ranges from the investigation of the pathways to thermo-chemical breakdown of solid biofuels to the synthesis of gaseous/liquid energy vectors and renewable carbon materials for catalysis and environmental applications such as water remediation.