The Cordiner Group

Welcome to the Cordiner Group page! 

Here we look to drive continual improvement in both process efficiency and process safety by employing cutting edge modelling technologies (mechanistic and data driven)  to gain an in-depth understanding of the physical processes and properties at play in the real world. 

The Cordiner Group operates at the interface of academic discovery and commercial reality. Backed by Professor Joan Cordiner’s 30-year career as an executive and technical leader in global multinationals (including Syngenta, AstraZeneca, and ICI), our group is designed to speak the language of industry, manage risk effectively, and deliver scalable solutions. 

As Industry evolves, our approach to tackling engineering problems must evolve too. New and innovative solutions are required to seize the multitude of new opportunities arising as a result of the digital era. 

The work of this group is predominantly focused on developing novel modelling and decision-making techniques, including both mechanistic and data-driven models, for a range of purposes including:

1. Process Safety & National Resilience

• Hydrogen and Net Zero Systems modelling and process safety.  https://ukhyres.co.uk/

• Resilience and national security risk register 

2. Complex Process Modelling (Mech/ ML) 

• mRNA vaccine production and scale-up, 

• prediction of stable formulation design

• Predictive Maintenance and root cause analysis using knowledge informed machine learning. This has been spun-out in our company, Kausalyze

• Scale up and technoeconomic costing. 

• Prediction and modelling of complex physical properties and processes

• Particle processes, including fluidization and crystallisation.

3. Sustainability & Green Systems Design

• decision making modelling for selection of decarbonisation strategies for industry

• optimising energy and carbon credit purchasing. 

• Systems thinking  and Critical Materials

• Materials demand for net zero,  https://nepc.raeng.org.uk/critical-materials 

We're passionate about driving real change and strive to stay on the cutting edge by working on the interface between academia and industry. If you would like to hear more about how we're breaking down barriers between Industry and academia, please listen to Prof Joan Cordiner talking to Nature - Breaking down the barriers that curtail industry collaborations and career moves.