Digital framework for sustainable chemistry R&D

Alexei Lapkin studied chemistry and specialised in membrane gas separation for his Masters thesis. He then shifted to chemical reaction engineering and completed his PhD at the University of Bath (UK) in membrane catalysis. He joined the University of Bath as a Lecturer in 2000. In 2009 he was appointed a Professor of Engineering at the University of Warwick and in 2013 he was elected to his current position of Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is also an adjunct professor at National University of Singapore. He runs multiple research programmes in Singapore under the umbrella of Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES). In recent years graduates from his group launched four start-ups.