Ed Lester

Ed is part of the Advanced Materials Research Group and the Lady Trent Professor of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Nottingham. He has a PhD in chemical engineering.

For more than 20 years, Ed has researched many topics, including power generation and fuel combustion. But one area of research — on continuous supercritical fluid reactors — led to the launch of Promethean Particles, where he is the technical director.

He also works on projects where his research interests overlap: chemicals and energy from biomass waste, through gasification, supercritical water oxidation, hydrothermal extraction or thermal upgrading.