Dr Emilia Nowak MEng, PhD, AMIChemE

Dr Emilia Nowak

School of Chemical Engineering
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
School of Chemical Engineering
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Research Fellow in the field of multiphase and interfacial flows and microstructured liquid products. Emilia’s research interests include colloids, interfacial phenomena, bubbles/droplets coalescence/breakage, capillarity, surface/interfacial energies, wettability, microfluidic flows and complex particles formulation.

Career History

2013-present:              Research Fellow in the Multi-scale Examination of MultiPHase physIcs in flowS  (MEMPHIS Multiphase) at University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡

2012- 2013:                  Researcher (University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK) and member of the NANOHEX, the world’s largest collaborative project for the research and development of nanofluid coolants that comprises of a consortium of 12 leading European companies and research centres.

03/2012-06/2012:       Researcher in the Microstructure Group (University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK) in the project entitled “Design and manufacture of novel food structures for the targeted delivery of bioactive components to the large intestine”.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Multiphase Systems Group, School of Chemical Engineering, University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK, 2013
  • MEng in Chemical and Process Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland, 2008
  • MSc (half course) in Automatic Control and Robotics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland, 2007

Biography

Emilia gained her M. Eng. in Chemical Engineering from West Pomeranian University of Technology in Poland where she received Chancellor’s award for Best Student in the graduating year. The subject of her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ was the investigation of the hydrodynamics of multiphase slurry reactors focusing on the bubbles-catalysts-oil interactions. She has been involved in the EU collaborative project where she was investigating heat transfer in nano-fluids and examined the efficiency of nano-fluids based coolants for application in high power electronic devices. Emilia was also involved in the work of Microstructure Group at University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ were she was developing methods to simulate the processes occurring in human gastrointestinal tract by applying the principles of formulation engineering.

Currently, she’s involved in the MEMPHIS MULTIPHASE project that aims to harness the synergy between world-leading scientists from four prestigious institutions to create the next generation modelling tools for complex multiphase flows. These flows are central to micro-fluidics, virtually every processing and manufacturing technology, oil-and-gas and nuclear applications, and biomedical applications such as lithotripsy and laser-surgery cavitation.

Teaching

Teaching assistant in Advanced Transport Phenomena, Heat Transfer, Computing for Design, Systems Modelling.

Postgraduate supervision

Involved in different PhD projects of Particle and Multiphase Processing research group.

Research

Research Themes

Microfluidics and free surface flows

Application of optical diagnostics to image fluid deformation, droplet rupture, coalescence and interface topology in complex multiphase systems using microfluidics and micromanipulation of fluid threads to obtain flow features under tightly controlled conditions.

Complex microstructures formulation

Manufacturing of structured fluids for fast-moving consumer-goods (FMCG) products, multiple emulsions, drug delivery systems.

Interfacial phenomena and colloids

Three-phase contact angle, wettability, surface energies and particles to bubble attachment, fluid gels formation, emulsification.

Multiphase flows

Experimental multiphase flows and interfacial phenomena including the hydrodynamics of complex multiphase gas/liquid/solid dispersions and fluid mechanical measurements using optical based methods.

Other activities

Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (AMIChemE)

Member of American Physical Society (APS)

Member of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)

Peer reviewer for Powder Technology

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Story, A, Jaworski, Z, Simmons, MJ & Nowak, E 2018, '', Chemical Papers, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 593–602.

Kovalchuk, NM, Roumpea, E, Nowak, E, Chinaud, M, Angeli, P & Simmons, MJH 2018, '', Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 176, pp. 139-152.

Roumpea, E, Kovalchuk, NM, Chinaud, M, Nowak, E, Simmons, MJH & Angeli, P 2018, '', Chemical Engineering Science.

Kahouadji, L, Nowak, E, Kovalchuk, N, Chergui, J, Juric, D, Shin, S, Simmons, MJH, Craster, RV & Matar, OK 2018, '', Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 22, no. 11, 126.

Nowak, E, Xie, Z, Kovalchuk, NM, Matar, OK & Simmons, MJH 2017, '', Soft Matter, vol. 13, no. 26, pp. 4616-4628.

Kovalchuk, NM, Nowak, E & Simmons, MJH 2017, '', Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 521.

Kovalchuk, NM, Nowak, E & Simmons, MJH 2016, '', Langmuir, vol. 32, no. 20, pp. 5069–5077.

Nowak, E, Kovalchuk, NM, Che, Z & Simmons, MJH 2016, '', Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 505, pp. 124–131.

Haghighi, EB, Utomo, AT, Ghanbarpour, M, Zavareh, AIT, Nowak, E, Khodabandeh, R, Pacek, AW & Palm, B 2015, '', International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 68, 3245, pp. 32-42.

Nowak, E & Pacek, AW 2015, '', Powder Technology, vol. 274, pp. 105-111.

Story, A, Jaworski, Z, Simmons, M & Nowak, E 2014, '', Technical Transactions, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 125-134.

Nowak, E, Combes, G, Stitt, EH & Pacek, A 2013, '', Powder Technology, vol. 233, pp. 52-64.

Nowak, E, Robbins, P, Combes, G, Stitt, EH & Pacek, AW 2013, '', Powder Technology, vol. 250, pp. 21-32.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Spyropoulos, F & Nowak, E 2013, . in Formulation Engineering of Foods. John Wiley & Sons.