Department staff
Professor Richard Wakeman
BSc MSc PhD EurIng CEng CSci FREng FIChemE
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Tel
- +44 (0)1509 222500
- r.j.wakeman@lboro.ac.uk
Background
Educated at UMIST. After graduation, worked as trouble shooting engineer with Lennig Chemicals. Joined Exeter University as a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering in 1973, becoming Reader in Particle Technology in 1986 and Professor of Process Engineering in the School of Engineering in 1990. Visiting Engineer, University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. Joined Loughborough University as Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1995. Associate Dean (Research) 1997-2000.
- Head of Department 2000 to 2008
- Visiting Professor, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Pardubice University, Czech Republic (2004 to present)
- Golden Jubilee Visiting Fellow, Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai, India (2007-2008)
- Adjunct Chair Professor, Chun Yuan University, Taiwan (2008-2011)
Professional affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
- Member of The Filtration Society
- Chartered Engineer, The Engineering Council
- Chartered Scientist, The Science Council
- Registered Engineer, Federation Europeenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingenieurs
External appointments (since 2000)
- Executive Editor, The Transactions of The Institution of Chemical Engineers
- Editor, Filtration
- Editorial Board, Membrane Technology and Physical Separations in Science and Engineering
- Director and Honorary Secretary, The Filtration Society
- Process Technology Panel, Academy of Finland
- EPSRC Peer Review College (to 2005)
- Chairman, EFCE Working Party on Filtration and Separation (to 2006)
- Trustee, The Filtration Society Awards Trust
- Industry Consultant
Research interests and activities
- Filtration and other solid/liquid separation processes
- Novel separations technology
- Membrane technology
- Particle technology
Awards
- The Suttle Award, The Filtration Society (1971)
- The Junior Moulton Medal, The institution of Chemical Engineers (1978)
- The Moulton Medal, The institution of Chemical Engineers (1991, 1995)
- The Gold Medal, The Filtration Society (2003, 2005)
- The Chemical Weekly Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (2005)
- The Arnold Greene Medal, The Institution of Chemical Engineers (2008)
Invited and keynote lectures (since 2000)
- Nordic Filtration Society Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2001)
- American Filtration Society Annual Meeting, Galveston, USA (2002)
- European Conference on Filtration and Separation, Gothenburg, Sweden (2002)
- International Conference on Emerging Solid / Liquid Separation Technologies, Compiegne, France (2002)
- 4th Chemical Industry and Environment Conference, Las Palmas, Spain (2003)
- New Technologies for Food Processing Conference, DEFRA / DTI, UK (2003)
- Advanced Filtration Technologies Forum, Taipei, Taiwan (2005)
- EMChIE, Vienna, Austria (2006)
- 2nd European Conference on Filtration and Separation, Compiegne, France (2006)
- FILTREX, Munich, Germany (2006)
- 3rd World Forum on Crystallisation, Filtration and Drying, Mumbai, India (2008)
- 10th World Filtration Congress, Leipzig, Germany (2008)
Organising / Scientific Committee of International Conferences
- 3rd and 4th European Congresses of Chemical Engineering (Nurnburg, 2001; Granada, 2003)
- Solid Liquid Separations III and IV (Davos, Switzerland, 2001; Pucón, Chile, 2003)
- Filtech Europa (Düsseldorf, Germany, 2001 and 2003; Weisbaden, Germany, 2005 and 2007)
- European Conference on Filtration and Separation (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2002)
- International Conference on Emerging Solid/Liquid Separation Technologies (Compiègne, France, 2001)
- Particulate Systems Analysis (Harrogate, UK, 2003)
- Advanced Flexible Materials and Structures: Engineering with Fibres (Loughborough, UK, 2003)
- 9th, 10th and 11th World Filtration Congresses (New Orleans, USA, 2004; Leipzig, Germany, 2008; Graz, Austria, 2012)
- 6th International Symposium on Gas Cleaning at High Temperatures (Osaka, Japan, 2005)
- Chemical Industry and Environment European Conference (Vienna, Austria, 2006)
- 2nd European Conference on Filtration and Separation (Compiègne, France, 2006)