Dr Ciaran Lahive is the Royce Technology Platform Lead for Polymer Characterisation, Processing and Synthesis. He is based within the Royce Hub Building at the University of Manchester.
Ciaran is from Cork in Ireland. He obtained a BSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from University College Cork, Ireland, before moving to pursue a PhD in organic chemistry and catalysis at the University of St Andrews, UK. This was followed by Postdoctoral research adventures in biomass valorisation within the Green Chemical Reaction Engineering group of Prof Dr ir. H.J. Heeres at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and later in the chemical recycling of plastics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, working with Dr. Gregg Beckham and Dr. Katrina Knauer.
Ciaran is currently a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester, UK, focusing on chemical and mechanical recycling and exploring how these approaches can contribute to achieving systems-level sustainability for plastics in the automotive, healthcare, and other sectors.
