Prof. Christopher Robert Cheeseman
1. Sustainable innovative lightweight expanded clay-glass ('SILEC-G')
2. Manufactured mineral absorbents (MMA)
Professor of Materials Resources Engineering
Imperial College London
Centre for Environmental Control and Waste Management
Department of Civil and environmental Engineering
SW7 2BU London
United Kingdom
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Fluency:
English
Thematic field of expertise:
Energy Recovery, Material Recovery, Sustainability, Climate, Resource management, Hazardous Waste, Industrial Waste, Metals
Geographical field of expertise:
United Kingdom
Detailed description of working activity
Leader of a major research group working on Materials Resources Engineering within the Materials Section in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, formerly in the Environmental and Water Resource Engineering Section
Research involving the management of large research grants and collaboration with users: The focus of on-going research is the sustainable use of materials and resource efficiency. This interdisciplinary research falls between the areas of environmental engineering, materials processing, waste recycling and civil engineering and has involved significant levels of industrial collaboration.
Current activity
Professor of Materials Resources Engineering
Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Director of the UK Centre for Infrastructure Materials
Head of the Materials Section
Course Director, MSc Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure
Former activities
Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering, 2014
Director of Department PhD Programme, 2008-2014
Departmental Postgraduate Tutor, 2002-2008
Course Director, MSc Environmental Engineering, 2000-2009 and from 2012
Extensive teaching on relevant MSc and MEng level modules
Supervised >20 PhD students at Imperial to completion
Education
BSc Materials Science and Physics, University of Warwick, 1980
DPhil, Department of Metallurgy and Science of Materials, University of Oxford, 1980-1984
Effect of Elevated Temperatures on the Strength of Ceramics, Supervisor Dr G.W.Groves, 1980-1984
Memberships
Member of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management
CIWM (2002)
Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
MIMMM (1989)
Chartered Environmentalist, CEnv
Member of ISCOWA, International Society for the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials