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Staff Profile

Dr Chris O'Malley

Senior Lecturer

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5378
  • Address: School of Engineering
    Room C517, Merz Court
    Â鶹´«Ã½
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Associate Dean for Education (UG) SAgE Faculty
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Stu Brew - Head Brewer & Academic Lead

Qualifications

  • MEng (Hons) - 1st class, Chemical & Process Engineering (2004) from Â鶹´«Ã½
  • EngD - Bioprocess Leadership (2009) from University College London
  • NTA - Â鶹´«Ã½ Teaching Award (2011)
  • CASAP - Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Studies in Academic Practise (2013)

Awards

Memberships

  • External Examiner for Chartered Institute of Brewing and Distilling Diploma ()
  • Member of The Institute of Measurement and Control ()
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy () 

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Research

Research Interests

Bioprocessing, Data Analysis, Classification, Multivariate Statistics, Brewing

Other Expertise

Process Control, Process Optimisation, MATLAB


Recent Projects

PINZ CDT PhD studentship with BOC

KTP Northumbrian Water Group Ltd

EPSRC Industrial CASE with Intertek

EPSRC Industrial CASE with Northumbrian Water Group Ltd

EPSRC Industrial CASE with GlaxoSmithKline

Gin production in Northumberland

 Europe's first Student Run Microbrewery

 - Improving Teaching Effectiveness in Chemical Engineering Education

Mass Spectral Fingerprinting Project - A collaborative research project between Â鶹´«Ã½, Lonza Biologics & the University of Kent, with the aim of looking at methods of improving the selection of highly producing cell lines during commercial monoclonal antibody production.

RealWire Project - A collaborative research project with RealWire investigating methods of improving relevance criteria within their  tool. 

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

CME1026 - Computing and Numerical Methods

CME2029 - Process Measurement, Dynamics & Control

CME2031 - Safety, Risk and Engineering Practice

CME3039 - Plant Design: Brewing Process Design

CME8120 - Advanced Design Project

CME8124 - Big Data Analytics in the Process Industries



Publications

  • Articles

    • Chima-Amaeshi N, O'Malley C, Willis M. . Journal of Marine Science and Application 2025, epub ahead of print.
    • Chima-Amaeshi N, O'Malley C, Willis MJ. . Journal of Marine Science and Application 2025, Epub ahead of print.
    • Laing H, O'Malley CJ, Browne A, Rutherford T, Baines T, Moore A, Black K, Willis MJ. . Energy 2022, 256, 124577.
    • Laing H, Bull S, Joyce S, O'Malley CJ. . Journal of Brewing and Distilling 2021, 10(1), 17-28.
    • Palmer J, O'Malley C, Wade M, Martin E, Page T, Montague G. . Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation 2020, 15, 26-40.
    • Laing H, O'Malley CJ, Browne A, Rutherford T, Baines T, Willis MJ. . Water Science & Technology 2020, 82(12), 2761-2775.
    • Haggerty JM, Wang XN, Dickinson A, O'Malley CJ, Martin EB. . BMC Medical Imaging 2014, 14, 7.
    • Povey JF, O'Malley CJ, Root T, Martin EB, Montague GA, Feary M, Trim C, Lang DA, Alldread R, Racher AJ, Smales CM. . Journal of Biotechnology 2014, 184, 84-93.
    • Momo RA, Povey JF, Smales CM, O'Malley CJ, Montague GA, Martin EB. . Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2013, 405(25), 8251-8265.
    • O'Malley CJ, Montague GA, Martin EB, Liddell J, Kara B, Titchener-Hooker NJ. . Food and Bioproducts Processing 2012, 90(4), 755-761.
    • Montague GA, Martin EB, O'Malley CJ. . Biotechnology Progress 2008, 24(5), 1033-1041.
    • Defernez M, Foxall RJ, O'Malley CJ, Montague G, Ring SM, Kemsley EK. . Journal of Food Engineering 2007, 83(2), 167-172.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Dong Y, Zhang J, O'Malley C. . In: 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering /15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (ESCAPE-34/PSE2024). 2024, Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V.
    • Russo Abegão F, Venn-Wycherley M, Vasilchenko A, Dyson M, O'Malley C, Law R, Adamson H, Joyce S, Norman R, Goss J, Devlin M. . In: ChemEngDay 2019. 2019, Edinburgh, UK.
    • Roy SK, Vassilevski KV, O'Malley CJ, Wright NG, Horsfall AB. . In: International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2013. 2014, Miyazaki, Japan: Trans Tech Publications Inc.
    • Roy SK, Furnival BJD, Wood NG, Vassilevski KV, Wright NG, Horsfall AB, O'Malley CJ. . In: IEEE Sensors 2013. 2013, Baltimore, MD, USA: IEEE.
    • Roy SK, Furnival BJD, Wood NG, Vassilevski KV, Wright NG, Horsfall AB, O'Malley CJ. . In: 2013 IEEE SENSORS. 2013, Baltimore, MD, USA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Furnival BJD, Roy SK, O'Malley CJ, Vassilevski KV, Wright NG, Horsfall AB. CMOS Compatible Gas Sensor Arrays for Hostile Environments. In: IEEE Sensors 2012. 2012, Taipei, Taiwan. Submitted.
    • Furnival BJD, Roy SK, Vassilevski KV, Wright NG, Horsfall AB. . In: Sensors. 2012, Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE.

  • Patent

    • Lang D, Martin EB, Montague GA, O'Malley CJ, Root TS, Trim CM, Povey JF, Smales CM, Racher AJ. . EP 2447717 B1, 18-09-2013.

  • Report

    • O'Malley CJ. . London: University College London, 2009. Department of Biochemical Engineering.