vCardProf. Julian Morris

Prof. Julian Morris
Professor of Process Control and Director Centre for Process Analytics & Control Technology

Research Interests

Process Analytical Technologies (PAT)in Pharmaceutical and Chemicals R&D and Manufacturing
Rapid Prototyping in Biopharma development and manufacturing
Process Chemometrics, Multivariate Data Analysis and Modelling
Multivariate Statistical Process Control and Process Performance Monitoring
Process Diagnostics
Neural Networks and Software Sensors
Process Control

Research themes:

Measurement and Analysis

Other Expertise

Julian Morris is Associate Director of AJM Consulting (www.ajm.co.uk) where he is guiding the further development of the MS2 multivariate analysis and process data mining system and its expansion into a real-time on-line monitoring system.
He is also the a Non-Executive Director Bioinnovel Ltd, INEX,Herschel Annex,Newcastle University

Selected Publications

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Projects

Research Roles

Technical Director of the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology

In 1997, the Universities of Hull, Newcastle and Strathclyde formed the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT), as an industrially shaped multi-disciplinary research centre. CPACT’s objective was to bridge the disciplines of analytical chemistry, chemometrics, chemical engineering, statistics, and process control and optimisation. The success of CPACT is such that referees as have acknowledged it as a unique platform for multidisciplinary research in process analysis and control. Peer review of CPACT Phase I rated the project as “tending to internationally leading” with “outstanding contributions to research output and staff output”.

CPACT Phase II “Knowledge-Driven Process Manufacturing (Know-How)” funded through a LINK programme (GR/R19366/01) built on this success and was underpinned with industrial funding of £600,000 in cash plus £1,257,000 in-kind. Peer review of CPACT Phase II rated the project as ‘internationally leading’ and ‘tending to internationally leading’ in terms of the development of new staff, and new process analysis and control technologies. The achievements from this work have been substantial as outlined below:

Outputs: Lectures - 44 International plenary/invited presentations and 26 national invited presentations, Publications - 21 Journal papers, 33 fully refereed Conference papers, 29 other Journal papers in process of submission. Researchers - 10 Post-Docs, 19 PhD students; 4 EPSRC Project Studentships; 9 studentships. 4 PhD students spent extended research periods with collaborators in Europe and the USA, and 6 international Visiting Research Fellows spent time with CPACT. Software - Delivery of 6 software toolkits: (i) data pre-screening toolkit, (ii) continuous process multivariate modelling and statistical process control toolbox, (iii) batch process multivariate modelling and statistical process control toolbox, (iv) neural network modelling toolbox, (v) chemometric spectroscopic data calibration toolbox, and (vi) design-of-experiments (DoE) toolbox.

Impact: CPACT has raised the UK profile of modern process analytics and control technologies, and indirectly contributed to the recent global FDA PAT initiative ; delivered a successful EPSRC Network with industrial demonstration projects in collaboration with SOCSA; invited to present at the EPSRC International Review of Engineering; PAT group formed at GSK comprises 6 CPACT graduates.
Leveraged Research funding: Successful project research outputs and new initiatives have generated industrial funding of £280,000 in cash, £160,000 in-kind, and research council funding of £1,997,989.

Public Engagement: Established a unique Annual Conference series (APACT) with internationally respected speakers from academia and industry, attracting around 120-150 participants per year; has delivered nine 2- and 3- day CPD and training courses both in-house and at company sites; 24 research theme meetings held; 5 Newsletters distributed internationally; high visibility web site.

Growth: Increased academic participation from Manchester, Imperial College, Leeds, and Heriot-Watt.

Postgraduate Supervision

Process Analytical Technologies (PAT)in Pharmaceutical and Chemicals R&D and Manufacturing
Rapid Prototyping in Biopharma development and manufacturing
Process Chemometrics, Multivariate Data Analysis and Modelling
Multivariate Statistical Process Control and Process Performance Monitoring
Process Diagnostics
Neural Networks and Software Sensors
Process Control

Esteem Indicators

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), 2003.

Member of the EPSRC Peer College, 1995 –

IChemE U/G Degree Course Accreditation – Leeds (2005), Loughborough (2006), Panannonia (Hungary, 2007)

Review of Final Report for EPSRC GR/No1279 (Project Studentship) “Tri-Dimensional Decompositions in Multivariate Statistical Process Control”, Value £40,226, 1/10/1999 – 30/9/2002 - Tending to Internationally Leading.

Review of EPSRC Network “CPACT-SOCSA Network in Process Analytics and Control Technology”, £60,000, March 2001 – February 2004 - Tending to Internationally leading.

Member of Scientific Committee for 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, 2005 (Managing Complexity Working Group; Molecules into Money)

Invited Chair, European 16th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering and 9th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (ESCAPE 16) “Operations and Control”, Germany, July 2006. (Invitations only to world personalities of science and technology).

Invited Theme Chair (Sensors and Measurement), 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, July 2005.

Member of the RSC International Programme Committee for the RSC International Conference Process Chemistry & Engineering: Working Together in Isolation, April 2006, Newcastle.

Member Technical Advisory Committee ONE Northeast Centre for Process Innovation, 2003 -.

Director and Board Member BRITEST (2002 – 2005)

UK Representative for the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council UKACC) on three International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Panels, 1997 - :
o TC 6.1 Chemical Process Control
o TC6.4 Safeprocess
o TC 8.4 Biosystems and Bioprocesses

UK representative to the (EU) OST COST Action E36 Management Committee, 2005 -.

Member of the World Batch Forum (WBF) Education Committee, 2004 -.

Invited International Reviewer for the Finnish Research Council 2005 -

Invited International Review Panel member for Chemical Engineering research carried out in the Greek Research Institutes, 2005.

Invited International Reviewer for the Dutch Research Council 2004 –

Plenary, Keynote and Invited Presentations
(Some joint presentations, first named person presented)

Invited Keynote Speaker, “PAT and its Implications for Robust Process Monitoring and Closed loop Control”, EuPAT, Scientific Progress Underpinning Innovative Manufacturing Control and Quality by Design, Göteborg Sweden, 28-29 October 2008.

Invited Speaker, “Process Analytical Technologies and Quality by Design – a Process Systems Engineering View”, ISPE Conference: PAT Data Management, September, Manchester, 2008.

Invited Speaker, “Process Analytical Technologies and Quality by Design – a Process Systems Engineering View”, Royal Statistical Society Conference, Nottingham, September 2008.

Invited Keynote Speaker, “PAT and its Implications for Robust Process Monitoring and Closed loop Control”, Pharma IQ Annual PAT and Quality by Design Meeting, 28-29 February 2008, London.

Invited PAT Workshop (1 Day Workshop), “PAT, Lean Six Sigma and Multivariate Data Analysis”, Pharma IQ Annual PAT and Quality by Design Meeting, 28-29 February 2008, London.

Invited Keynote Speaker, “Chemometrics and its Relation to PAT”, IBC Euroforum Meeting on PAT- Process Analytical Technology, 1-2 April 2008, Copenhagen,

Invited Keynote Speaker, “Process Performance Monitoring (Towards Model-Based Approaches)”, European Chemical Engineering Conference, Copenhagen, September 2007

Invited Keynote Speaker, “PAT and the Extraction of Enhanced Information from Messy Spectroscopic Data”, International Federation of Automatic Control Computer Applications in Biotechnology CAB10 (Biosystems and Bioprocesses), Cancun Mexico, June 2007

Invited Presentation, Creating Manufacturing Sustainability through Advanced Technologies, Industrial Workshop, Wilton June 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited Prestigious Presentation “Process Analytical Technologies: Contributions from CPACT – an Overview of Methodologies and Applications”, the Computer Aided Product and Process Centre (CAPEC) Annual Industrial Consortium Meeting, DTU Denmark, June 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited Presentation “The Extraction of Chemical Information from Messy Spectroscopic Data”, Institute of Validation Technology International Conference on Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Dublin, June 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited ½ Day Worksop on Process Analytical Technologies, Institute of Validation Technology International Conference on Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Dublin, June 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited Presentation, “Process Performance Monitoring and the Benefits of Multivariate Analysis”, Industrial Workshop, Grimsby May 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited Presentation “Performance Monitoring in Crystallisation”, MC3 in Down Stream Processing, ACHEMA International Congress on Chemical Engineering - Environmental Protection and Biotechnology, Frankfurt May 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Keynote Presentation, “Dynamic fault detection and diagnosis - finding needles in haystacks”, APACT06 International Conference, Oxford 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited Presentation “Dynamic Process Performance Monitoring and the Integration of Spectral and Process Data”, Centre for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC), Satellite Workshop, Rome March 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited full day Seminar, “Process Performance Monitoring Studies”, BASF Ludwigshafen Germany, March 2006. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited Presentation “Process Intensification and Data Engineering at Newcastle”, Centre for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC), Annual Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle May July 2005. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Invited Presentation Innovation in the Process Industries, Industrial Workshop Grimsby, March 2005. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Keynote Presentation, “Batch Monitoring through Common Subspace Models”, IFAC International Conference ADCHEM’2003, Hong Kong, January 2004. (Prof. E.B. Martin and Prof. A.J. Morris).

Invited Prestigious Presentation, “New Horizons for Process Control”, Postgraduate Forum, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, January 2004. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Plenary Presentation “Trends in data and information management in process analytics and control technologies”, APAC04 International Conference, Bath 2004. (Prof. A. J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin)

Invited Presentation, “Monitoring Multi-recipe Batch Manufacturing Performance”, World Batch Forum, Brussels 2004. (Prof. A. J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin)

Keynote Presentation, “Towards Improved Product and Process Know-how”, 9th Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry Conference, Portugal. September 2004 (Prof. A.J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin).

Invited Presentation, “Challenges in Performance Monitoring of Batch Processes”, Seventeenth International Forum Process Analytical Chemistry (Process Analysis and Control), Phoenix, USA, January 2003. (Prof. E.B. Martin and Prof. A.J. Morris).

Invited Presentation, “Process Performance Monitoring – Its Application in Process Chemometrics”, FACSS, Florida, USA, October 2003 (Prof. A.J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin)

Plenary Presentation, “Needle in a Haystack - A Challenge to Chemometricians”, Eighth Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry Conference, Seattle, USA, September 2002. (Prof. E.B. Martin and Prof. A.J. Morris).

Invited Presentation, “Process Capability and Monitoring Manufacturing Performance”, Product and Process Competitiveness, UKAP, October 2002. (Prof. A. J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin)

Keynote Presentation, “Monitoring Manufacturing Performance”, Chemical Engineering World Congress, Melbourne Australia, September 2001. (Prof. A.J. Morris)

Keynote Presentation, “Multivariate Statistical Process Control in Biological Process Supervision“, 10th European Congress in Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain, July 2001. (Prof. A.J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin)

Invited Presentation, "Modelling for Manufacturing Performance Monitoring", Food Modelling Club, London, March 2001. (Prof. A. J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin).

Plenary Presentation, “Feature Extraction and Performance Monitoring for Improved Bioprocess Understanding and Supervision”, Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Conference, Bio-contaminants and Biological Production Issues, Virginia, USA, September 2001. (Prof. A.J. Morris and Prof. E.B. Martin).

Keynote Presentation, “Challenges for SPC Monitoring” IChemE Conference APC 6, York, UK, September 2001 (Prof. E.B. Martin and Prof. A.J. Morris).

Keynote Presentation, “Impurity Detection in Batch Pharmaceutical Production”, CAB-8, Quebec Canada, June 2001. (Prof. E.B. Martin and Prof. A.J. Morris)

Several invited seminars at Universities and Companies in the UK.

Funding

PI or CI on the following Awards:

Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award with BP, Predictive Dynamic Fault Detection and Diagnosis, £90,000

EPSRC Maths CASE Award with BP, Predictive Dynamic Modelling for Next Generation Processing, PI - Dr Jian Shi Maths & Stata; CI A J Morris, £45,000.

EU 026515-2, "Sustainable Microbial and Biocatalytic Production of Advanced Functional Materials (BIOPRODUCTION)", Project value €9,000,000 (£240,000 to Newcastle), 08/2006 - 07/2010 PI-JM

EPSRC GR/S72351/01 "Grid Based Information Models to Support the Rapid Innovation of High Value Added Chemicals", £2,200,000, 02/2004 - 12/2004, PI-AJM & ARW

EU MEST-CT-2004-8036, "Integrated Approaches to Chemical Process and Product Quality Monitoring using Spectroscopy", Project value €709,574 (£487,000),09/2004 - 08/2008. PI-ST,CIs - AJM, EBM
EPSRC GR-R64407-01, "Vertical Integration of Product Development and Manufacturing VERTIGO", £500,534, 10/2003 - 09.2006. PI-EBM, CI-AJM

EPSRC, GR/S50458/01, "Physical and Chemical Characterisation of Dense Particulate Suspensions using vis-NIR Spectroscopy", £93,037, 01/2003 - 12/2006. PI-ST, CIs-AJM & EBM

EPSRC, GR/S50441/01, "Simultaneous Online Estimation of Physical and Chemical Property Distributions in Particulate Media", £241,135, 01/2003 - 12/2006. PI-ST,CIs - EBM & AJM

EPSRC GR/R43853/01, "Control and Scale-up of Batch Crystallisation Processes", Project Value £3,401,000; £304,157 to Newcastle plus 2 Industrial CASE Studentships - £36K, 04/2002 - 12/2005. PI-JM, CI-EBM
University of Newcastle SRIF2, "High Throughput Experimentation Laboratory", £750,000, 04/2004 - 05/2006, PI-JM, CI-AW

EPSRC GR/S86358/01, "Extending High Throughput Technologies to Chemical Process Development (The automation of mechanism determination)", £1,204,263, 01/2004 - 12/2006. PI-JM & AW

EPSRC GR/R72433/01, "Interdisciplinary Network in Process Analytics and Control Technology", £62,691, 01/2002 - 12/2004. PI-JM, CIs-David Littlejohn (Strathclyde) & EBM

EU Research Training Network HPRN-CT-2000-00039, "Knowledge Driven Batch Processing - BatchPro", Project value 1,489,200 euro; £191,000 to Newcastle, 08/2001 07/2004. PI-JM, CI-EBM.

EPSRC GR/L28029 CASE Award with GSK, £44,400, 09/2001 - 08/2004.PI-EBM CI-AJM

EPSRC GR/S19073/01, "Visiting Fellow in Novel Approaches for the Analysis of Multivariate Images", £18,662, 09/2002 - 01/2003. PI EBM, CI-AJM

EPSRC GR/R19366/01, "Knowledge Driven Process Manufacturing", £1.25M plus industrial contributions of cash £915,000 and £1,642,000 in-kind, £2,165,000, 06/2000 - 12/2003. PI-EBM, CI-JM

DTI Foresight LINK XJ7/046, "Realising Business Process Enhancement", Project value £324,834, £112,810 to Newcastle, 10/2000 - 09/2003. PI-EBM, CI-AJM

Teaching Company Scheme TCD 2777, Flagship TCS with British Steel (Now Corus), £341,000, 10/1999 - 09/2003. PI-AJM, CI EBM

EPSRC GR/R35100/01, Research Associate Industrial Secondment “Multivariate Statistical Performance Monitoring and Sensor Management”, £35,068, 03/2001 - 03/2002, PI-EBM, CI-AJM
HEFCE Joint Infrastructure Award (2001), “A Responsive Processing Unit”, £1.658M. 08/2001 - 01/2002, Joint between the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT), the Process Intensification and Innovation Centre (PIIC) and the Electrochemical and Materials Processing Centre (EMPC), 9 academic applicants – K. Scott, A.J. Morris, R. Jachuck, C. Ramshaw, E.B. Martin, G. Akay, S. Roy, D. Littlejohn.

EU ESPRIT 28870, "Performance Enhancement through Factory On-line Examination of Process Data", Project value €2.63M; £498,500 to Newcastle, 01/1999 - 06/2002. PI-JM, CI-EBM

EPSRC 99316174, CASE Award with BP AMOCO, £44,400, 10/1999 - 09/2002. PI-AJM, CI-EBM

GR/K77389/01 OST Foresight Challenge, "Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology", £1.3M from EPSRC plus industrial contributions of £690,000 in cash and £1,999,000 in-kind; Total £2,300,000, 07/1997 - 12/2001. PI-AJM, CI-EBM

EPSRC 9980313X, CASE Award with MDC technology, £44,400, 10/1998 -09/2001. PI-EBM, CI-AJM

ETSU and the Dept. of the Environment E/CA/00180/00/00/4450, "Diagnostics and Visualisation Software Toolkit for Energy saving a feasibility study", £9,000, 05/1999 - 03/2001. PI-JM

MAFF Bridge LINK FT0605, "Assured Food Manufacturing through Process Performance Monitoring”, £44,884, 11/2000 - 03/2001. PI-JM
EPSRC Network “CPACT-SOCSA Network in Process Analytics and Control Technology”, £60,000, March 1st 2001 – February 28th 2004.

EPSRC, OST and Foresight funding for CPACT:
Foresight LINK GR/R19366/01, [KNOW-HOW] “Knowledge Driven Process Manufacturing”, Value £1.254M, plus £785.4K in cash from industrial members, (Newcastle part £367,453 plus £84K for two project studentships). Joint with the Foresight Centre CPACT, 1/1/2001 – 31/12/2003.

OST/EPSRC Foresight Challenge, GR/K77389, "Centre of Process Analytics and Control - CPACT", £3.25M (1/3 to Newcastle). Joint with the Departments of Analytical Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Department of Chemistry (Chemometrics) University of Hull, 1/6/1997 – 31/3/2001.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council:
EPSRC, GR/R35100/01, Research Associate Industrial Secondment “Multivariate Statistical Performance Monitoring and Sensor Management”. Value of £35,068. 12/3/2001 – 11/3/2002.

EPSRC, GR/M78670 - MTP99, Masters Training Package (Process Analytics and Quality Technology). Value £573,891. 1/10/1999 – 30/9/2005.

EPSRC CASE Award, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Value £44,400. 1/10/2001 – 30/9/2004.

EPSRC CASE Award 99316174, BP AMOCO. Value £44,400. 1/10/1999 – 30/9/2002.

EPSRC CASE Award 9980313X, MDC Technology. Value £44,400. 1/10/1998 – 30/9/2001.

EPSRC CASE Award 96700322, ICI. Value £44,400. 1/10/1996 – 30/10/1999.

EPSRC CASE Maths Pool Award 95500118, British Steel. £44,400. 1/10/1995 – 30/19/1998.

EPSRC GR/K96861, "The Modelling and Control of Wet End Chemistry in Paper Manufacturing Plants", in collaboration with UMIST Dept. Paper Science, £110,000 to Newcastle, 1/10/96 – 31/3/2000.

EPSRC GR/J47996, “Control of Reactive Distillation Systems”, £100,184, 1/4/94 to 31/7/97.

EPSRC GR/N01255 (Project Studentship), “Advanced Signal Processing for Enhanced Spectroscopic Data Interpretation” Value £40,526, 1/10/1999 – 30/9/2002.

EPSRC GR/No1279 (Project Studentship), “Tri-Dimensional Decompositions in Multivariate Statistical Process Control”. Value £40,226, 1/10/1999 – 30/9/2002.

EPSRC/DTI, GR/M09971, [MENTOR] “Multivariate Statistical Performance Monitoring and Sensor Management”. Value £694K, (£195,721 to Newcastle). Collaborative with British Steel, MDC Technology, UCB Films. 1/12/98 – 31/05/01.

EPSRC Visiting Fellowship for Dr Barry Wise. Value £15,450, April – July 1999.

EPSRC/IMI Innovative Manufacturing Initiative, GR/L28029, "System Capability Enhancement in High Performance Processing" [SCIENTIA], £726,903 (£275,903 to Newcastle). Partners – BICC, Unilever, BASF, MDC Technology, 1/1/96 - 31/12/99.

EPSRC, GR/K51853, "Approximation and Control of Industrial Non-linear Dynamic Processes", £130,250, 1/2/96 - 31/10/99.

EPSRC GR/K81799 Travel Grant, “Multivariate Statistical Process Control”, April – September 1995, £3,300.

EPSRC/IMI, Support to hold an Industrial Workshop on Multivariate Statistical Process Control, £5,000. December 1995.

EPSRC IMI ROPA Award, GR/K37789, Dynamic Neural Network Representations and Links with State Space Process Models, £77,000, 1/10/94 to 30/4/97.

Biological and Biochemical Science Research Council (BBSRC)
BBSRC Travel Award to visit Professor Sten Bay Jorgenson, Technical University of Denmark, £1,720, 1997/98.

BBSRC E04487, "Model and Feature Extraction from Complex Data for Improved Bioprocess Understanding and Supervision", £125,968 , Partners – Zeneca Pharmaceuticals and Quest International, 1/4/96 – 30/9/99.

BBSRC Studentship Award 95/BI.E/370, £30,000, 1/10/1995 - 30/9/1998.

BBSRC Research Fellowship Award T02756 “Model Predictive Control using Real-time NARX and Dynamic Neural Network Approaches”, £47,000, 17/1/95 – 17/9/95.

UK Government and Other Agency Research Funding
DTI Foresight LINK XJ7/046 [RED BRACES], "Realising Business Process Enhancements" £324,834 (£112,810 to Newcastle), 1/10/2000 – 30/9/2003.

ETSU and the Dept. of the Environment, E/CA/00180/00/00/4450, “Diagnostics and Visualisation Software Toolkit for Energy saving a feasibility study”, £9,000, 1/5/1999 – 28/2/2001.

MAFF Bridge LINK FT0605, “Assured Food Manufacturing through Process Performance Monitoring”. Value of £44,884. 1/11/2000 – 31/2/2001.

Teaching Company Scheme TCD 2777, Flagship TCS with British Steel (Now Corus), £341,000, Oct 1999 – Sept 2003.

MAFF/DTI LINK FPS 106, £450,937, "Enhanced Food Process Operability through Integrated Advanced Process Supervision", 1994 – 1997.

British Council Travel Award to visit Dr Jose de Menzes, Technical University of Lisbon, Value £2,000. Awarded 1997/1998.

British Council ATH/882/2/ROB Award, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (Greece), £5,900. March 1995 – March 1997.

Teaching Company Scheme, TCD GR/K51006, Teaching Company with ICI, “Intelligent Process Supervision and Control”, £158,177, 1995-1998.

EC Research Funding:
EU Research Training Network HPRN-CT-2000-00039, [BatchPro], “Knowledge-driven Batch Production”, Total Value (£123,290 to Newcastle). Collaborative with 7 Universities, DuPont, MDC Technology and Novo Nordisk. August 2000 – July 2003.

EU ESPRIT Project Number 28870 [PERFECT], “Performance Enhancement through Factory On-line Examination of Process Data”, Value 2.63Mecu, (£498.5K to Newcastle). Collaborative with Technical University of Denmark (Jorgensen), Louvain Le Neuve (Dochain & Bastin), University of Thessaloniki, CPERI (Kiparissides), University Porto (Sebastaio de Feyo), University of Stuttgart (Algower), EPFL Lausanne (Bonvine), BASF, DSM, MDC Technology, Unilever. 1/1/99 – 30/6/2002.

EU ESPRIT Project Number 29489 [ASTES], “Advanced Statistical Techniques for Control of Complex Blast Furnace Operations via Expert Systems”, 236.4Kecu (£44.9K to Newcastle), Partners – British Steel and Computas, 1/1/99 – 31/12/99.

EU ESPRIT Project Number 22416 [MONNET], "Monitoring and Control of Chemical and Biochemical Processes Based on the Utilisation of Neural Networks ", 2.4MEcu (£287,000 to Newcastle). July 1994 - June 1999.

EU ESPRIT Project Number 22281/24492 [PROGNOSIS], “Process Diagnostics for Plant Performance Enhancement”. Value 3Mecu, (£279,000 to Newcastle). Collaborative with BASF, BICC, ICI, MDC Technology, Unilever, 1/9/96 – 31/12/98.

EU BRITE/EURAM BRE2-CT93-0523 [INTELPOL], "Intelligent Manufacture of Polymers", 4.5M Ecu, (£225,563 to Newcastle), 10 partners, 1/1/94 – 31/12/98.

EU BRITE/EURAM BRE2-CT94-1013 [IMPROQ], "Intelligent Monitoring and Process Quality", 3.5M Ecu, (£95,000 to Newcastle), 7 partners, 1/7/94 – 31/6/97.

EU BRITE/EURAM Research Training Network CHRX-CT94-0672, “Chemical Process Control”, £26,273, 1994 – 1997.

Industrial Research Funding:
Industrial Network [INPACT], Industrial contributions for Generic Research in Process Diagnostics, £116,757, formed March 1997.

Biochemie (Austria), “Multivariate Statistical Process Modelling of Biochemical Systems”, £30,000, 1996 – 1998.

Borealis (Norway), PhD Studentship “Multivariate Statistical Process Control”, £67,000, 1/10/2000 – 30/9/2003.

MDC Technology, Funding for research into Multivariate Statistical Process Control, £10,000, 1998.

Shell Global Solutions, Funding for research into new MSPC technologies, £25,000.1/10/1997 – 30/9/1999.

Industrial Relevance

As Technical Director of the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT) Julian Morris is responsible for encouraging and catalysing CPACT R&D projects and technology transfer projects, through for example KTPs, across the CPACT academic and industrial membership and its links with the research councils and European funding agencies.

Consultancy

Specialist Expertise
Process diagnostics.
Process performance monitoring.
Statistical analysis of complex data.
Multivariate Statistical Process Control.
Data modelling.
Software sensors and inferential estimation.
This work is undertaken for the chemicals, materials and pharmaceutical industries.
The work is carried out through my company Morris Associates as well as being an Associate Director of AJM Consulting which is a company commercialising advanced data mining and data visualisation software MS2 which is an innovative tool for improving process understanding and process variability in product and process development and manufacturing.

Patents

Wright. A.R. and Morris, A.J. “Electroichemical pH and Ion Concentration Control”, Patent No. 7931089, January 1980.

Background

Julian Morris is Professor of Process Control at Newcastle Univeristy, immediate past Head of the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, past head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, and Technical Director of the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT). He has spent some time as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control.

Roles and Responsibilities

Technical Director Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT)
Associate Director of AJM Consulting (www.ajm.co.uk) where he is guiding the further development of the MS2 multivariate analysis and process data mining system and its expansion into a real-time on-line monitoring system.
Non-Executive Director Bioinnovel Ltd, INEX,Herschel Annex,Newcastle University

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Dunelm, PhD

Memberships

FIChemE, FInstMC, CEng

Honours and Awards

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)

Undergraduate Teaching

Process Control
Process Services

Postgraduate Teaching

Process Control