The Agenda for the launch of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements & Critical Materials, the UK's first interdisciplinary research centre focusing on the challenges of Strategic Elements & Critical Materials.

1. BCSECM Launch Event
Wednesday 29 March 2017
Avon Room, University of Birmingham
10.00 – RegistrationOpen,Tea&Coffee
10.45 – Prof. Tim Jones,Provost and Vice Principal of the UniversityofBirmingham
Welcome andIntroduction.
10.55 – Dr. Paul Anderson,BCSECM Co-Director,School of Chemistry,UniversityofBirmingham
Overviewof the BirminghamCentreforStrategicElementsandCritical Materials.
11.05 – Mr. Reinhardt Bütikofer,MEP Germany,Groupof the Greens
A Europeanperspectiveoncritical materials.
11.15 – Mr. AndrewBloodworth, British Geological Survey
Primaryproductionof strategicelementsand critical materials.
11.40 – Prof. Bob Lee,Head of Birmingham Law School, UniversityofBirmingham
Critical Materials:Some issuesof law andpolicy.
11.55 – LUNCH BREAK
13.00 – Mr. Neil Glover,Rolls-Royce
Critical materialsinthe aerospace industry.
13.25 – Dr. AlessandroMottura, School of Metallurgyand Materials,UniversityofBirmingham
Reducingourreliance onrheniumforachievinghigh-temperaturecapabilitiesinNi-based
superalloys.
13.40 – Dr. Allan Walton,BCSECM Co-Director,School of Metallurgyand Materials,University
of Birmingham
Novel methodforproductionof rare earthpermanentmagnets.
13.55 – Dr. Emma Schofield,JohnsonMatthey
PGM Recycling:A Businessora Responsibility?
14.20 – Dr. Etienne Baranoff, School of Chemistry,University ofBirmingham
Replacementof platinoidmetalsforphotoactivedyes.
14.35 – Dr. Paul Davies, School of Chemistry,UniversityofBirmingham
Molecularsynthesiswithpreciousmetal catalysts.
14.50 – Dr. Neil Rees,School ofChemical Engineering,UniversityofBirmingham
Efficientuse andreplacementof PGMsin catalysis.
15.05 – COFFEEBREAK
15.35 – Mr. SverkerSjolin,Stena TechnoworldAB
Novel sensingandroboticsortingof endof life products.
16.00 – Dr. Iryna Mikheenko,School of Biosciences,UniversityofBirmingham
Biotechnologyforvalorisationof preciousandrare metals.
16.15 – Prof. Neil Rowson,School ofChemical Engineering,UniversityofBirmingham
Recoveryof critical andstrategicmetalsfromsecondarysources.
16.30 – General Discussion
17.30 – DRINKSRECEPTION
18.30 – End of Meeting