Fergus Mcilwaine
PhD Student
School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Institute of Mechanical, Process & Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, UK
Biography
Fergus Mcilwaine is a PhD Student in Susana Garcia’s group. His PhD focusses on the data-driven design of adsorption-based carbon capture processes. He is a developer of the PrISMa platform where he is involved in material discovery for carbon capture and methane capture. He has a background in chemical engineering and is experienced in process modelling, metal organic frameworks, machine learning, high performance computing, and Python.
Roles & Responsibilities
Research interests
Carbon capture technology, metal-organic frameworks, machine learning, adsorption.