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Prof. Christophe A. Serra

Christophe was born in 1968 and graduated in 1992 from the Engineering School of Chemical Engineering (ENSIC) in Nancy (France). He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (France) with a work on “Hollow-fibre dead-end ultrafiltration: module design and process simulation in water treatment”.
Then, he spent 18 months as a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University (Houston, TX) making CFD simulations on rotating and stationary membrane disk filters as well as hydrodynamics of permeable aggregates in differential sedimendation.
Since 1998, he has been a faculty member of the University Louis Pasteur which became the University of Strasbourg in 2009 (France) teaching chemical engineering at the European Engineering School of Chemistry, Polymer and Material Sciences (ECPM). His researches concern the development of new microfluidic-assisted polymer processes for the synthesis of architecture-controlled polymers and functional microstructured polymer particles. In 2010 he has been appointed Full Professor at the University of Strasbourg and took the head of the Group for the Intensification and Integration of Polymer Processes (G2IP) within the Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES).

 
  

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Education

Post-Doctoral Studies, Membrane Separation Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1997-98

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Université Paul Sabatier (UPS)/ Laboratoire de Génie Chimique et Electrochimie (LGCE), Toulouse, France, 1996

DEA (Master), Chemical Engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC)/ Laboratoire de Génie des Milieux Complexes (GEMICO), Nancy, France, 1992

French Engineer Degree, Chemical Engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC), Nancy, France, 1992

 

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Fields of research

Chemical Engineering

Polymer Reaction Engineering

Polymer Micro Process Engineering

 

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Professional affiliations

Editor, Green Processing and Synthesis, De Gruyter

Editorial Board, Journal of Engineering, section Chemical Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

International Advisory Board, Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, Wiley-VCH

Member, Working Party on Polymer Reaction Engineering (WPPRE) of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering

Member, Scientific committee, International Conference on Microreaction (IMRET)

 

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Funded researches

  • Project coordinator
    • Development of an intensified polymerization process for the production of architecture-controlled polymers,French National Research Agency, 2009-14.
    • Preparation of polymer-metal nanoparticles composite systems by use of microreaction technology, PHC PROCOPE, 2008-10.
    • From microfluidic emulsions to microstructured polymer particles, French National Research Agency, 2005-08.
    • Polymerization microreactors for functional nano/microstructured materials, French Young Scientist Program, 2003-06.
  • Project leader
    • Network of smart sensors designed for monitoring indoor air environments, French National Research Agency, 2012-15
    • Characterisation of polymer blend morphology in a twin screw extruder by online light scattering measurements, French “Reactive Extrusion” Research Program, 1991-94
  • Project member
    • Extensional flow breakup of powder aggregates, French National Research Agency, 2013-16
    • Fast, Flexible and Future Factory, EuroPoly project, 7th PCRD, 2009-13
    • Photolithography processes with photosensitive resins for semi-conductor technologies with patterns smaller than 90 nm: physical chemical mechanisms inducing the pattern roughness, French National Research Agency, 2005-07

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University committees and services

Member, Board or Directors, Ecole Européenne de Chimie Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM), Strasbourg, France, 2013– present

Dean for Polymers Affairs, Ecole Européenne de Chimie Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM), Strasbourg, France, 2009– present

Member, faculty board, Ecole Européenne de Chimie Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM) , Strasbourg, France, 2009 – present

Co-Chairman, E-Learning Committee, Ecole Européenne de Chimie Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM), Strasbourg, France, 2000 – present

 

Member, Scientific Committee for Dean of Engineering, Ecole Européenne de Chimie Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM), Strasbourg, France, 2000 – 2009

Member, Faculty Council Committee, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Strasbourg, France, 2000 – 2010

Member, Faculty Council Committee, Université Robert Schuman, Illkirch, France, 2005 – 2010

Member, Faculty Council Committee, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, 2000 – 2010

Chairman, Engineering Sciences Committee, Ecole Européenne de Chimie Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM), Strasbourg, France, 2005 - 2009

Member, E-Learning Committee, National Federation of Engineering Schools on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lyon, France, 2000 – 2005

Chairman, E-Learning Acreditation Committee, National Federation of Engineering Schools on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lyon, France, 2000 – 2005

 

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Courses taught

Transport phenomena

Chemical Reaction Engineering

Chemical Processes Control part I: process dynamics

Chemical Processes Control part II: process regulation

Polymer Reaction Engineering

 

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