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Summary

Dr Svetlana Ignatova is a process chemist specialising in the area of separation and purification technologies and associated instrument design and its operation. She has over 30 years of experience in process development and scale up of continuous liquid-liquid extraction and chromatography with projects spanning across academia and industry, nationally and internationally. Her main research focus is on further improvements in speed, throughput, economy, resolution and efficiency of downstream processing of various materials including metal recovery, (bio)pharmaceuticals, natural products, particles, biological materials and waste streams valorisation, while using novel approaches and materials including bio-ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents.

After joining Brunel University in 2003, she played an important role in the development of continuous dynamic extraction technology, often referred to as counter-current chromatography (CCC) technology, from “home-made” to “industrial competitive” and in its scale-up from analytical to pilot scale at the Brunel’s Advanced Bioprocessing Centre (ABC) through various separation trials carried out for the National Cancer Institute (USA), Pfizer, Syngenta, Shell and GSK.

Dr Ignatova is a founding member of the Department of Chemical Engineering where she has held a variety of leadership roles since 2018. She is currently Director of Teaching and Learning and responsible for the Design, Launch and Accreditation of both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes within the Department.

Qualifications

• MChem in Separation Sciences, Moscow State University 
• PhD in Separation sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences

Responsibility

• Director of Teaching and Learning (February 2018 – present)
• Senior Tutor (February 2018 – November 2021)
• Interim Head of Department (January-June 2022)