BioGlue webinar: Callum Hill

Participation details

Everyone is welcome and feel free to invite your network. The webinar will be recorded and published on BioGlue’s Youtube channel. This means that any questions put in person or via chatt could be recorded. In attending you agree to this. Feel free to invite your network. 

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Meeting-ID: 610 9783 4089
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About the speaker

Callum Hill graduated with a first-class honours degree in chemistry from Bristol University in 1977. After graduating, he conducted research into lipids in blood at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, before taking up a post at Bath University, where he worked on polymer degradation. He gained a PhD in the use of organometallic macrocyclic materials as gas sensors at Bristol Polytechnic, before returning to Bristol University to investigate non-aqueous colloidal systems. He then moved to Bangor University to undertake studies in non-linear optics. He started his research in wood science and bio-composites in 1994, when he joined the then School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences at Bangor University. In 2007, he moved to Edinburgh Napier University to take up a position as the Edinburgh Research Partnership Chair in Renewable Materials, where he remained until 2013. He has been a director of JCH Industrial Ecology Ltd (a consultancy that provides advice on all matters concerned with sustainability) since 2010. Prof. Hill has published over 200 research papers, 7 book chapters and 2 text books. He has been researching and providing consultancy advice for over ten years. He is a Global Expert at the InnoRenew Centre of Excellence, Koper, Slovenia, a Senior Consultant at the Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research in Ås, Norway, and a Consultant for Renuables Ltd.