Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens

Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens is a chemical engineer, who is globally recognised for pioneering nature-inspired chemical engineering (NICE). He developed a rigorous and systematic nature-inspired solution (NIS) methodology, which leverages fundamental mechanisms underpinning desired properties in nature, to solve challenging engineering problems within a practical context, from energy and scalable manufacturing to health and biomedical engineering.

Marc-Olivier is Ramsay Memorial Professor and Vice-Dean Engineering (Interdisciplinary, Innovation) at University College London (UCL). He leads the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) “Frontier Engineering” Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering at UCL and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (Germany), and Qiushi Professor at Zhejiang University (China).