Dr Hankin is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. Her principal interests and expertise are in the science and engineering of electrochemical energy conversion, CO2 reduction and separation processes for industrial effluent treatment and material recycling. Her academic research projects have all been aimed at solving industrial problems and involved experimental and numerical modelling components. The strategy followed in former, current and future projects is to progress from theoretical assessments of a given problem, to small-scale experimental investigations and process modelling and then on to system design, operation, characterisation and scale-up