Heriot-Watt University Malaysia...•Heriot-Watt ranked 9th university in the UK and 1st in Scotland...
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Heriot-Watt University Malaysia
Professor Lynne Jack
Director Of Research (Malaysia)
MREPC ILF Interaction Session
Aug 2019
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UK 9,000 students Dubai 3,700 students
With partners: 11,000
Independent: 8,000
Heriot-Watt University Profile
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Heriot-Watt University Malaysia
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Key Disciplines
Core groupings
• Engineering
• Construction
• Business
• Actuarial Science
• Psychology
PhD Degrees
• Engineering
• Statistics
• Social and Behavioural Science
• Business and Administration
• Architecture and Building (tbc)
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Research Excellence
• Heriot-Watt ranked 9th university in the UK and 1st in Scotland for research impact in REF 2014
• Over 80% of our academic staff are engaged in research at internationally recognised levels
• Overall 82% of our research is assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent in our core disciplines of science and engineering, business and management, languages and design.
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Future Energy
Societal Development
Circular Economy
Enviro-Tech
Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia
Research at HWUM
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Materials Science
• Research spans all (five) campuses
• Main link Malaysia-Edinburgh
• Institute of Chemical Sciences (ICS), Edinburgh
• research seeks to understand the relationship between composition, structure and property (polymers and composites)
• combines aspects of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry as well as chemical engineering
• Continental, ExxonMobil, Coca-Cola, Weir Group, TechnipFMC and Iron Ocean
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Materials Science
• computational modelling and experimental research to study molecular properties and behaviour
• chemical synthesis of organic and biologically-active compounds, inorganic and organometallic compounds and supramolecular species
• preparation of novel polymeric, inorganic, composite and hybrid materials for technological applications
• development of novel spectroscopic techniques to study interfaces relevant to catalysis
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Examples of Application
• Strengthening of packaging using latex products
• Studies of microbial degradation of rubber/latex
• Circular economy – reuse of rubber
• Numerical modelling and parametric analysis of
High Damping rubber crash barrier
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Thank you