SCI Yorkshire and the Humber Group Annual Awards 2022

Prof Bernard (Bernie) Binks was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Hull in 2003. His research is primarily concerned with materials chemistry, with research interests in surfactants, foams, emulsions and colloidal particles at interfaces. He was the Director of the Surfactant and Colloid Group for 15 years, a leading UK research group in surface and colloid chemistry. A large proportion of Professor Binks' research funding comes from industry as his work is on the fundamental science underpinning the behaviour of many important formulations. He is a Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Fellow of the Higher Education Authority.

Dave Smith is Professor of Chemistry at University of York, where he carries out research into smart nanomaterials, publishing around 200 highly-cited papers. He is a passionate educator and in 2013, Dave received a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of his influential chemical education work. He gives regular outreach lectures, and has spoken to ca. 50,000 UK school students. He has also developed his own YouTube chemistry channel, with over half a million views. Chemical and Engineering News named him as one of the Top 25 chemists to follow on Twitter – as @professor_dave he has over 25,000 followers. He is highly active in trying to diversify science and has written and lectured on the representation of LGBT+ scientists, and in 2017 was shortlisted for the Gay Times Barbara Burford Award for his activist work.

Mojtaba is the Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Leeds, with research activities focused on the link between bulk particulate solids behaviour and single particle properties with the aid of simulations by combined DEM and CFD. Application areas of interest are cohesive powder flow and fluidisation, size reduction and enlargement, environmental effects and electrical phenomena in particulate systems. Mojtaba is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Until July 2019 he was the consultant of the International Fine Particle Research Institute in the size reduction area