Rate My Professor Richard Bourne

Bourne's research focuses on continuous processing, automation and optimisation, industrial process development, and sustainability. He develops sustainable processes emphasizing continuous flow routes to pharmaceutical and fine chemical products, employing automated flow systems that integrate online analysis, feedback control, and evolutionary algorithms for enhanced process understanding and optimization. This interdisciplinary work at the chemistry-chemical engineering interface scales processes from laboratory to manufacturing. He leads EPSRC projects including Cognitive Chemical Manufacturing, FLEXICHEM: Flexible Digital Chemical Manufacturing Through Structure/Reactivity Relationships, and NanoMan: Self-Optimising Nanoscale Manufacturing Platforms, as well as EU-funded IbD and ProPAT, and Innovate UK grants CelluPAT and OPTOMS. Bourne received the Society of Chemical Industry Chemistry for Industry Award in 2023 and serves on the School of Chemical and Process Engineering Research and Innovation Committee and the Dial-a-Molecule Steering Group. His scholarly impact includes over 6,700 citations, advancing self-optimizing reactors and Industry 4.0 in chemical manufacturing.