UQ Andrew N. Liveris Building Site Tour - Revisited

The Joint Chemical Engineering Committee, Queensland welcomes you to this site tour of the UQ Andrew N. Loveris Building. The School of Chemical Engineering UQ is an international leader in chemical engineering education and research. Powered by a team of exceptional people and strengthened by partnerships with industry and alumni The School of Chemical Engineering UQ create leaders, thinkers, and innovators ready to take on the most pressing engineering challenges of our time. At 11 storeys high, the Andrew N. Liveris building stands as the tallest building on UQs St Lucia campus, and is the new home for the School of Chemical Engineering. The building features 500 square metres of teaching space and 2000 square metres of laboratory space Last year, the QLD Joint Chemical Engineering Committee had a behind-the-scenes preview of the building months before of its official opening ceremony in April 2022. One year on and there is much more to see; industrial-sized reactors, a mini-brewery, and even a glass distillation column complete with control room. The building is named after Mr Liveris thanks to a historic gift from Mr Andrew Liveris and Mrs Paula Liveris. More information can be found in here or on the school website. Meet your tour guide Professor Justin Cooper-White Professor Justin Cooper-White is a global leader in using engineering to solve problems in biology. In addition to holding the position of AIBN Group Leader, Professor Cooper-White is Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility-Queensland Node and the Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at UQ. He is a past President of both the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and the Australian Society of Rheology. Professor Cooper-White has been appointed a CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) Science Leader. Professor Cooper-White has many past and currently active international collaborations with world leading research groups. He has performed contract research and consultancy work for Unilever in the UK; Nestle International, Switzerland; Rhodia, US; and Inion, Finland since 2001. Professor Cooper-White has been chair or co-chair of three international conferences, focusing on either rheology or biomaterials and tissue engineering: the Australian representative on the International Advisory Committee, 15th International Congress on Rheology, Monterey, US; a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Congress on Biomaterials, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and currently an Australian representative on the Interntional Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBE). He is the inventor on six international patents. He has performed contract and sponsored research work for multinationals such as Mesoblast, Rhodia, Unilever and Nestle International and has received more than $45 million in competitive grant funding. Event details Address: Building 46, Staff House Road, UQ St Lucia Campus, QLD 4067 Doors Open: 6pm Tour Starts: 6:30pm Networking and Refreshments: 8:00pm Doors Close: 8:30pm