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Professor Peter Halley to visit WMG for seminar

peter_halley-250.jpgWMG is pleased to welcome Professor Peter Halley to visit the department in June. Professor Halley is an internationally-recognised leader in the field of starch-based biopolymers and bio-nanocomposites, based at the University of Queensland in Australia.

Professor Halley will be visiting Professor Tony McNally and WMG’s Nanocomposites research team during his visit and will be giving a seminar, which all Warwick staff and students are invited to attend.

Professor Halley’s seminar, entitled ‘Translational Polymer Research for Sustainable Polymers’, will be taking place on Thursday 13th June (from 12 noon) in WMG’s International Digital Laboratory.

The talk will showcase some translational polymer research projects in sustainable polymers in agri-foods, biomedical and industrial application areas; specifically highlighting the integration of fundamental PhD studies with multisite research teams.

Professor Halley has worked both in industry, at SRI International, Sola Optical and Moldflow, in universities and with three cooperative research centres (in food packaging, sugar and polymers) and is driven by translational research.

Professor Halley is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), Chief Investigator in the Queensland Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing (AMPAM) Centre, Director of the Centre for High Performance Polymers (CHPP) and Director of Research in the School of Chemical Engineering. His research group in CHPP spans AIBN and Chemical Engineering and is focused on developing new bio-based polymers, bio-chemicals and nanostructured polymers for health, food and high-value applications. Peter’s research aims to take advances in biomaterials a step further and develop high performance bio-based and sustainable materials and polymers for high value and functional applications.

See the event page for more details.