Dr Ali Abbas

Senior lecturer and Director of the Laboratory for Multiscale Systems
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9351 3002
Fax: +61 2 9351 2854
E-mail: alia@usyd.edu.au
Skype: a_abbas1

1. BE (Chemical Engineering) – University of Sydney
2. Graduate Certificate in Educational studies (Higher Education) – University of Sydney
3. PhD (Chemical Engineering) – University of Sydney

1. The Institution of Engineers Singapore Chemical Engineering Technical Committee (2006-2007)
2. UNESCO International centre for Engineering Education (2005-2007)
3. The Institution of Engineers, Australia (1997-2005)

Particulate Systems Engineering

• Crystallisation
• In-situ and in-line laser and image based particle characterisation
• Ultrasound mediated particle design
• Bioreactor systems engineering
• Particle engineering via spray drying

Bioengineering and Biological systems engineering

• Biofuels Systems Engineering
• Virus stochastic modelling for ultrafiltration and harvesting operations
• Pandemic forecasting and monitoring
• Drug delivery
• Environmental biosensors for oil spill detection
• Human body systems modelling and monitoring

Teaching and Learning

• Curriculum design and Integration
• Experiential e-learning

Ali Abbas received both his Bachelors and PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Sydney, Australia. He held a lecturing contract at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney before joining, in 2004, the new School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was appointed, in 2007, to the lecturing position at UNSW Asia in Chemical Engineering in the Division of Engineering Science and Technology. Later in 2007, Dr Abbas returned to Sydney to take up a Senior Lectureship in the University of Sydney at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His engineering research is in the area of Process Systems Engineering with emphasis on model-based optimal operation of particulate, biofuel, sonochemical and biomedical systems. He has strong interests in education and teaching with particular focus on curriculum design and integration as well as on experiential e-learning.

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• Lab-scale crystallization unit
• Crystallisation pilot plant
• Bioreactors
• Control room with distributed control system
• Webplant
• Distillation pilot plant
• Analytical facilities
• Electron microscope unit

Prospective PhD and Masters by Research students wishing to join the Laboratory for Multiscale systems may choose projects in the research areas of interest mentioned above. For specific project details, you can contact . For application details and scholarship opportunities, please refer to the postgraduate pages on this website.

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