Professor Ian Wilson

Biography

Professor D. Ian Wilson is Professor of Soft Solids and Surfaces at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He graduated in chemical engineering (MA, 1988; MEng,1989) from Cambridge before completing a PhD (1994) at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Ian has been a member of the academic staff at Cambridge since 1994 and is now an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College. Professor Wilson currently leads the Particles, Soft Solids and Surfaces Research Group.

Awards and achievements

Salters’ Graduate Prize, 1989

Pilkington Teaching Prize, University of Cambridge, 2000

ScD (Doctor of Science) – University of Cambridge, 2013
Hood Fellowship – University of Auckland, 2026

Prof. Wilson was until recently the Editor-in-Chief of the IChemE journal Food & Bioproducts Processing

Professor Ian Wilson

Professor of Soft Solids and Surfaces

Particles, Soft Solids and Surfaces research group leader

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