Michael O
PHD Student at Ownsworth Engineering Services Ltd
Greater Derby Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael O is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield researching long-term mitigation of amine degradation in solvent-based carbon capture as part of the Green Industrial Futures CDT. A Chartered Chemical Engineer and IChemE member, he brings nearly four decades of hands-on process industry experience across food, metals, bulk inorganics, petrochemicals and fine chemicals, spanning capital projects, process improvement and troubleshooting. He has worked for consultancies, producers and equipment suppliers and now runs his own engineering services company, blending practical operations know-how with academic rigor. His supervisors are Professors Mathieu Lucquiaud and John Gibbins, and his work aims to make carbon capture more durable and cost-effective in real-world plant conditions. Outside work he’s an avid walker who completed the Pennine Way in stages, an assistant U16 rugby coach, and a long-time Aikido practitioner—activities that reflect his practical mentorship style and collaborative approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at Loughborugh University of Technology
Github Skills (35)
pytorch8
realtime8
instance-segmentation7
image-segmentation7
medical-image-segmentation7
semantic-segmentation6
generative-adversarial-network6
generative-ai5
generative5
diffusion-models5
depth-estimation4
openmmlab4
optical-flow4
generative-model4
transformer4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cdrwolfe/ariac_qual_1
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 months
ros-packagerosros2
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