{"id":47,"date":"2015-12-18T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/ceasblog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-06-14T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:47:17","slug":"chemengcatchup-episode-2-dr-thomas-vetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/ceasblog\/2015\/12\/18\/chemengcatchup-episode-2-dr-thomas-vetter\/","title":{"rendered":"#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 2 \u2013 Dr Thomas Vetter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello all! Thanks for coming back for the second #ChemEngCatchUp<\/a>. I know I said you’d see this series return on the last Friday of the month, but I’ll doubt you’ll be reading it on Christmas or New Year’s Day – so<\/p>\n

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Thomas posing for us while we toured his lab!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

here it is!<\/p>\n

Did you all enjoy the last episode with James Winterburn<\/a>? I know I did. And there\u2019s more to come from him in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n

Now, though, we\u2019re moving onto Dr Thomas Vetter<\/a>. In one of my earliest meetings with the Head of School and other colleagues, Thomas was mentioned as a researcher I should definitely be chatting to. After ten minutes in his company, I could see why. Thomas is one of the most enthusiastic and passionate researchers I remember talking to, as you\u2019ll see in the interview below:<\/p>\n

Hi Thomas \u2013 thanks for joining us. We\u2019ll get the tricky one out the way first. Can you please explain your research, for the layman, in ten sentences or less?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My research is really about scaling up chemical processes, specifically crystallisation processes.<\/p>\n

So, crystals are around everyone in daily life. For example, the sugar you put into tea or the precursor of nylon which is also crystallised. Crystals are in a lot of different products. Basically, making a small laboratory style process to a larger scale and still having the beneficial qualities of the process on a larger scale \u2013 that\u2019s the goal of my research.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s of course fundamental work, but also this scale up and processing work. It has applied parts, and also the fundamental parts.<\/p>\n

And can you tell us a bit about how your research benefits the public?<\/strong><\/p>\n