Claire S. Adjiman

Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Early life and education Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman was raised in France and relocated to London in 1988. Adjiman received a master's degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College London in 1993. She completed a PhD under Christodoulos A. Floudas at Princeton University in 1998 Her group are developing computer-based process design techniques to improve the process economics as well as the material and energy efficiency. Adjiman works with the oil and gas industry, solid oxide fuel cells and capture.

In 2012 she was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Leadership Fellowship. She is the Director of Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London In 2016 she was elected to the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2023 she was elected to the USA National Academy of Engineering.

She is on the editorial board of the journals Molecular Systems Design & Engineering and Fluid Phase Equilibria. She is an Associate Editor for the journals Chemical Engineering Science and Journal of Global Optimization.

2009 - Imperial College London Research Excellence Award

2011 - Society of Chemical Industry Henry Armstrong Lecture, Process Design: Don't Take the Molecules For Granted