Associate Professor David Harbottle
- Position: Associate Professor
- Areas of expertise: rheology; colloids and surface chemistry; suspensions and emulsions; surfactant science and multiphase flows.
- Email: D.Harbottle@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 4154
- Location: 129 Engineering Building
- Website: Googlescholar
Profile
David Harbottle (DH) is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta. Trained as a Chemical Engineer (MEng, Leeds 2004), he has specialized in colloid and interfacial science, and rheology (PhD, Leeds 2008). DH spent 5 years in North America at the City College of New York (US) and the University of Alberta (Canada), leading projects in the areas of chemical and structural characterization of asphaltenes, new chemical synthesis of functional polymers, and strategies for accelerated phase separation. Since returning to Leeds in 2014, DH has established a critical mass of research in: i) suspension and emulsion rheology; ii) droplet dynamics on surfaces; iii) asphaltene science; and iv) functional polymers and membranes. He is an Associate Member of the IChemE and Energy Institute. He is an author of over 100 scientific articles, 1 patent and 3 book chapters. He was previously a Director of Rheokinisis Ltd., a technology start-up developing tools for online rheology measurement.
Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=RwKvYgcAAAAJ&hl=en
Previous group members (PhD and PDRA)
John Vickers (2018) – Air Products
Emily James (2018) – University of Cambridge
Kai Yu (2019) – Associate Professor, Jiangsu University
Johannes Andries Botha (2019) – Unilever, Port Sunlight
Mohammed Jeraal (2019) – University of Cambridge CARES
Suparit Tangparitkul (2019) – Assistant Professor, Chiang Mai University
Dr Huagui Zhang – Associate Professor, Fujian Normal University
Dr Ji Young – Korea Basic Science Institute
Current Group
Responsibilities
- Deputy Director EPSRC CDT in Molecules to Products
- Program Lead Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering and Petroleum Production Engineering
- School of Chemical and Process Engineering EMB
Research interests
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- 2017 - Associate Professor
- 2014-2017 - Lecturer
- PhD (2009) - Chemical Engineering
- MEng (2004) - Chemical Engineering
Professional memberships
- Institution of Chemical Engineers
- Energy Institute
- American Chemical Society
Student education
Program Lead MEng/BEng Chemical Engineering
Program Lead MEng/BEng Petroleum Engineering, MSc Petroleum Production Engineering.
Research groups and institutes
- Energy Leeds
- Nuclear Leeds
- Nuclear Engineering
- Colloid, Polymer and Crystallisation
Current postgraduate researchers
- Stefanos Michaelides
- Dewi Ballard
- Olivia Pickup
- Callum Hutchinson
- Oguzhan Kivan
- Guohong Gao
- Michael Wahnon