Mark Willis BSc, Ph.D
Email: Mark Willis
Telephone:+44 (0)191 222 7242
Areas of expertise:
- Design of experiments and multi-objective process optimisation
- Genetic algorithms
- Statistical analysis (univariate, multivariate, PCA, PLS, factor-analysis)
- Neural networks
- Hybrid modelling
Biography
Mark Willis is a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical
Engineering and Advanced Materials (CEAM) at Newcastle. He has a first degree in chemical
engineering and a PhD in modeling and control of chemical reactors. His current research
interests focus on the use of high throughput technologies for chemical process development.
His recent work has been specifically related to the development of mathematical algorithms for
the automated deduction of chemical reaction mechanism. He has authored/co-authored over
90 articles in scientific journals, conferences and books; receiving two “best paper” awards for
co-authored journal papers. Mark has recently secured funding awards for the following
projects: “Extending High Throughput Technologies to Chemical Process Development (The
automation of Mechanism Determination), “Enhancing manufacturing by linking models derived
from ultra scale-down and early process data via an intelligent agent” and “Data Analysis and
Dynamic Modeling of Process Engineering Systems using Genetic Programming”. He has spent
sabbatical leave working at the University of Sydney (Chemical Engineering Department) and
with Avantium Technologies, the largest high throughput technology company in Europe. He has
given a number of international seminars including, most recently seminars at Dow, Texas Tech,
Clarkson Chemical Engineering and Brandeis Chemistry Department in the USA. He receives
industrial funding and has acted as consultant for a number of companies specializing in
applying modeling and control technologies in the process industries including Nova Chemicals,
Cargill, Corus, Biochemie, Mobil Oil, BP, Synpac, EA Technology, Yorkshire Water and Science
Systems. He has graduated 6 PhD students as main supervisor, 4 as co-supervisor and worked
with 7 post doctoral researchers who have proceeded to employment within academia and
industry. He currently supervises 5 PhDs.
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