Davidson Symposium 2022, 23 September 2022

CEB hosted the Davidson Symposium in honour of the late Emeritus Professor John Davidson and to celebrate the modern face of chemical engineering and biotechnology. John Davidson, the ‘Father of Fluidisation’ and former Head of Department of Chemical Engineering and IChemE President, had pioneered research work on fluidised beds spanning several decades. He was internationally renowned and he was held in high esteem by many of those he came into contact with in industry and academia and highly appreciated by his colleagues in CEB. John himself initially 'masterminded' our merger with biotechnology, which eventually led to the creation of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in 2008. Professor Davidson was a firm believer in the power of chance encounters to stimulate ideas, between students and indeed students and academics, over a hot cup of tea. See event programme on www.ceb.cam.ac... and information on John Davidson on www.ceb.cam.ac... This recording features presentations from Professor Roisin Owens, Sir David Harrison, Isabel Letwin, Peter Davidson, Professor Richard Darton, Professor Keshavan Niranjan, Dame Professor Lynn Gladden, Professor Roland Clift, Professor John Dennis Professor Gabi Kaminski Schierle, Professor Laura Torrente and Nigel Hirst