Recent Innovative Contribution Award
The CAPE Award for Recent Innovative Contribution (RIC) is given in recognition of an outstanding innovative contribution to recent advances in CAPE ideas, methods and/or tools. Recent means within the last 4 years from the current date.
Prof. Anton Kiss
Tony Kiss (Anton Alexandru) is a professor of chemical engineering with expertise in key areas such as Process Systems Engineering, Process Intensification, and Separation Technology. He holds a PhD / doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam, a MSc title of Chemical Engineer from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, and he was also PostDoc fellow at TU Delft and at University of Amsterdam. Tony has over 20 years of academic and industrial experience, working as a professor at Delft University of Technology, University of Twente, and The University of Manchester (UK). Earlier, he worked for over a decade in the chemical industry, as Senior Project Manager and RD&I Specialist in Chemical Process Technology at AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals – rebranded later as a new company, Nouryon.
Prof. David Bogle
Prof Bogle studied Chemical Engineering at Imperial College at both undergraduate and graduate levels, receiving his PhD in 1983. Following this, he worked on modelling and control projects for British Gas before taking a position as lecturer at the University of Adelaide , a position he held from 1986 until 1990. Prof Bogle joined UCL as a lecturer in 1990. He was appointed Professor in 2000. He was Technical Programme Director for the 2005 World Congress of Chemical Engineering. In 2005 he was appointed Head of the UCL Graduate School and in 2014 Pro-Vice-Provost of the Doctroal School and Early Career Researchers. Since 2008 he has been chair of the Steering Group of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) Doctoral Studies Policy Group.
In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the Villermaux Medal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) in 2023. He was President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) for 2022-23 and Scientific Vice President of the EFCE for 2018-2021. He retired from UCL in Sept 2024 and was appointed Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Previous Laureates
Prof. André Bardow
Prof. Joachim Gross
