Alexei Lapkin is Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Professor Lapkin's research group is focused on the development of innovative digital technologies to address sustainability challenges in the chemical industries. They are working on developing machine learning methods and Big Data approaches to design of reaction pathways for circular economy and are actively pursuing development of machine learning and AI methods for process development.

Professor Lapkin received his Masters in Biochemistry from Novosibirsk State University in Russia. He pursued his doctoral research in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath, followed by roles as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader. In 2009 he was appointed as a Professor of Engineering at the University of Warwick, and in 2013 as Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Visit his research group's website: Sustainable Reaction Engineering group to learn more about current research.