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Peter Kaskiewicz

Location
2.02, Chemical & Process Engineering
Sponsor
Infineum & Syngenta
Primary Supervisor
Professor Kevin Roberts, Chemical & Process Engineering
Qualifications
MEng Chemical Engineering, Leeds

Biography

Peter was awarded the prize for best research dissertation during his MEng and awarded a BP scholarship, which acknowledged ‘academic excellence’ and ‘future talent in industry’. Peter performed a summer research placement at the University, where he undertook a project focussed on the synthesis of the metastable form of paracetamol. Also, during his studies Peter was selected as one of five students to attend a three week course/university collective on nuclear engineering and clean energy technology at the School of Energy Research at Xiamen University, in China, alongside students and researchers from the University of Birmingham, Michigan University and Xiamen University.

PhD: Accelerating, Characterising and Controlling Nucleation Processes

The project focusses on the ability to control crystal nucleation in an effort to predict when it might occur and also to inhibit it.

Outreach, training and other activities:

  • Pfizer Cross CDT Day 18 Oct 2017
  • Promoting CDT at Frank Morton Sports Day 2018
  • Be Curious March 2018 (annual University of Leeds science public engagement fair)
  • BACG 2018 - PhD Student Conference co-organiser and co-chair

Publications and presentations:

  • X. Tang, P. L. Kaskiewicz, D. M. Camacho Corzo, X. Lai, K. J. Roberts, P. Dowding, I. More. 2018. Solubility and crystallisability of the ternary system: Hexadecane and octadecane representative in fuel solvents. Fuel. 226(2018). 665-674
  • X. Tang, P. L. Kaskiewicz, D. M. Camacho Corzo, X. Lai, K. J. Roberts, P. Dowding, I. More. 2018. Data for crystallisation, dissolution and saturation temperatures of the ternary system: Hexadecane and octadecane representative in fuel solvents. Data in Brief. 19(2018). 1382-1392
  • BACG 2018. 49th annual meeting of the British Association for Crystal Growth - Two poster presentations

Masters research project in year 1 of CDT:

  • ‘Preparation and characterisation of inorganic-organic nanoparticles using poly-3-(trimethoxysilyl) propyl methacrylate via RAFT polymerisation’ with Dr Nick Warren, Chemical & Process Engineering