Gavin Walker

Professor Walker was appointed as the Bernal Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Limerick in 2012. He is also a Visiting Research Professor of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast (UK). His research interests include particle/powder technology, process modelling and materials engineering.

Gavin has published over 167 international journal papers on various aspects of chemical and process engineering. He is an associate editor of Chemical Engineering Journal and Chemical Engineering Research and Design.

He has been awarded two Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) fellowships: the ExxonMobil Fellowship in 2002 and the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2009.

His Bernal Process Engineering Research Group at UL currently comprises of 35 post-doctoral researchers and PhD students working on various aspects of chemical processing and it was awarded Research-Academic Lab of the Year at the Irish Awards in 2017.