Staff Profile
Dr Chris O'Malley
Senior Lecturer
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5378
- Address: School of Engineering
Room C517, Merz Court
Newcastle University
Newcastle 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 Newcastle University
- EngD - Bioprocess Leadership (2009) from University College London
- NTA - Newcastle Teaching Award (2011)
- CASAP - Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Studies in Academic Practise (2013)
Awards
- TEAs (2019) - Outstanding Contribution to Employability
Memberships
- External Examiner for Institute of Brewing and Distilling Diploma (IBD)
- Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
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Research
Research Interests
Bioprocessing, Data Analysis, Classification, Multivariate Statistics, Brewing
Other Expertise
Process Control, Process Optimisation, MATLAB
Recent Projects
EPSRC Industrial CASE with Northumbrian Water Group Ltd
EPSRC Industrial CASE with GlaxoSmithKline
Sustainable Brewing Design & Operation
Gin production in Northumberland
Stu Brew Europe's first Student Run Microbrewery
- http://www.bqlive.co.uk/2015/09/08/stu-brew-newcastle-students-brewing-up-success/
- http://www.thejournal.co.uk/north-east-analysis/analysis-news/newcastle-university-student-brewery-launches-8814234
- https://twitter.com/StuBrewNCL
iTeach - Improving Teaching Effectiveness in Chemical Engineering Education
Mass Spectral Fingerprinting Project - A collaborative research project between Newcastle University, 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 press release distribution tool.
Publications
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Articles
- Laing H, O'Malley CJ, Browne A, Rutherford T, Baines T, Moore A, Black K, Willis MJ. Optimisation of energy usage and carbon emissions monitoring using MILP for an advanced anaerobic digester plant. Energy 2022, 256, 124577.
- Laing H, Bull S, Joyce S, O'Malley CJ. Investigating cleaning in place (CIP) chemical, water, and energy use: A comparative study of standard operating procedure (SOP) for UK North East microbreweries. Journal of Brewing and Distilling 2021, 10(1), 17-28.
- Palmer J, O'Malley C, Wade M, Martin E, Page T, Montague G. Opportunities for Process Control and Quality Assurance Using Online NIR Analysis to a Continuous Wet Granulation Tableting Line. Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation 2020, 15, 26-40.
- Laing H, O'Malley CJ, Browne A, Rutherford T, Baines T, Willis MJ. Development of a biogas distribution model for a wastewater treatment plant: a mixed integer linear programming approach. Water Science & Technology 2020, 82(12), 2761-2775.
- Haggerty JM, Wang XN, Dickinson A, O'Malley CJ, Martin EB. Segmentation of epidermal tissue with histopathological damage in images of haematoxylin and eosin stained human skin. 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. Rapid High-Throughput Characterisation, Classification and Selection of Recombinant Mammalian Cell Line Phenotypes using Intact Cell MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry Fingerprinting and PLS-DA Modelling. Journal of Biotechnology 2014, 184, 84-93.
- Momo RA, Povey JF, Smales CM, O'Malley CJ, Montague GA, Martin EB. MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry coupled with multivariate pattern recognition analysis for the rapid biomarker profiling of Escherichia coli in different growth phases. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2013, 405(25), 8251-8265.
- O'Malley CJ, Montague GA, Martin EB, Liddell J, Kara B, Titchener-Hooker NJ. Utilisation of key descriptors from protein sequence data to aid bioprocess route selection. Food and Bioproducts Processing 2012, 90(4), 755-761.
- Montague GA, Martin EB, O'Malley CJ. Forecasting for fermentation operational decision making. Biotechnology Progress 2008, 24(5), 1033-1041.
- Defernez M, Foxall RJ, O'Malley CJ, Montague G, Ring SM, Kemsley EK. Modelling beer fermentation variability. Journal of Food Engineering 2007, 83(2), 167-172.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Dong Y, Zhang J, O'Malley C. Online Process Monitoring through Integration of Joint Recurrence Plot and Convolutional Neural Networks. 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. Teaching Students How to Code Using Physical Computing Tools. In: ChemEngDay 2019. 2019, Edinburgh, UK.
- Roy SK, Vassilevski KV, O'Malley CJ, Wright NG, Horsfall AB. Discriminating High k Dielectric Gas Sensors. 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. SiC gas sensor arrays for extreme environments. In: IEEE Sensors 2013. 2013, Baltimore, MD, USA: IEEE.
- Roy SK, Furnival BJD, Wood NG, Vassilevski KV, Wright NG, Horsfall AB, O'Malley CJ. SiC gas sensor arrays for extreme environments. 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. CMOS compatible gas sensor arrays for hostile environments. In: Sensors. 2012, Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE.
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Patent
- Lang D, Martin EB, Montague GA, O'Malley CJ, Root TS, Trim CM, Povey JF, Smales CM, Racher AJ. Rapid Method for Targeted Cell (Line) Selection. EP 2447717 B1, 18-09-2013.
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Report
- O'Malley CJ. PHD Thesis: Information Extraction for Enhanced Bioprocess Development. London: University College London, 2009. Department of Biochemical Engineering.