Lecturer: Dr Adam Charlton

Title:  Biorefining research at the Biocomposites Centre

Time: 10:30-11:00am, Oct. 19, 2015

Location: Rm 306, State Key Lab. of Pulp and Paper Engineering (new building)

Dr Adam Charlton is a Research Scientist at The BioComposites Centre (BC), Bangor University, a specialist unit engaged in applied research with companies across a number of sectors, including plant fibre processing / composites production, polymers, fine chemicals and forest products. He trained as a materials chemist and has 15 years research experience in the field of nonlinear optics / molecular electronics and as a synthetic chemist collaborating with chemical companies, on the contract production of chemical intermediates for the pharmaceuticals sector. His research now focuses on the production of value added materials from biomass, with a general interest in biorefining and developing novel fractionation/ extraction technologies for biomass. In his current role at BC, he is a project co-ordinator at Bangor University for the BEACON project, a £20 million initiative investigating biorefining in Wales, which is a partnership between Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea Universities