{"id":192,"date":"2016-06-27T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/ceasblog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2016-06-27T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:04:43","slug":"chemengcatchup-episode-7-tom-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sites.se.manchester.ac.uk\/chem-eng-blog\/2016\/06\/27\/chemengcatchup-episode-7-tom-rodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 7 \u2013 Tom Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all. You may have noticed that the #ChemEngCatchUp<\/a> was absent last month, but don\u2019t worry. We have caught up following a postponed interview. And, as we were missing for a while, we thought we better come back with a bang.<\/p>\n

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Tom receives his award!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So today we bring you the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science\u2019s Teacher of the Year<\/a>, our very own Tom Rodgers:<\/p>\n

Hi Tom. Thanks for talking to us. And big congrats on the award. Can you start by describing your research, for the layman, in ten sentences or less?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My research involves the manufacture of formulated products. So I think a lot of people would recognise formulated products as, sort of, everyday items that they use. So things like shampoos, conditioners, toothpaste. And ice cream and mayonnaise and things like that.<\/p>\n

So my research interest comes in taking these products from the lab or development scale through to the production scale, especially if their production processes include mixing.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m also interested in advanced analytical techniques such as tomography. Process tomography is like something along the lines of hospital CT scanning but on process equipment.<\/p>\n

Thanks Tom! So can you us a bit about how your research can benefit the public?<\/strong><\/h3>\n