Malcolm
McIvor was one of the key people in ICI who helped establish CPACT in 1997 and
he played a prominent role in project supervision during the early stages of
CPACT’s activities. Malcolm enjoyed his engagement with CPACT and has
generously endowed a prize to be awarded annually to a researcher in recognition
of that individual’s achievement in process analytics and control technologies.
The prize recognises excellence in terms of scientific achievement, creative
thinking and/or engagement between academia and industry.
The
CPACT Chair and the selection panel, comprised of academic and industrial
members of the CPACT Industrial Management Board, decided that as the standard
was so high this year that we would have joint winners. The winners were Adam
Rish from Sentronic US Corp and Paulina Quintanilla from University College
London.
Adam said
"I am deeply honored
to receive the Malcolm McIvor prize as an early career scientist for my
research efforts with lean chemometrics and spectroscopic PAT. Thank you to
Owen Rehrauer at Sentronic US Corp for nominating me, and thank you to all my
colleagues in Sentronic, colleagues in the process analytics field at large,
and my family for their support. I eagerly look forward to continuing to
connect and collaborate with the CPACT community, especially at the APACT
conference this year!"
Paulina said “I am deeply grateful to receive
this award, which reflects the invaluable support and inspiration of
colleagues, collaborators, and friends in the control community and beyond. I
am especially thankful to my PhD supervisors – Dr Pablo Brito-Parada, Prof.
Stephen Neethling, and Dr Daniel Navia – whose mentorship laid the foundation
of my research journey. I look forward to further advancing modelling, control,
and optimisation in my work at UCL”