Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman FREng FRSC FIChemE is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.^[1][2]

Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman was raised in France and relocated to London in 1988.^[3][4] Adjiman received a master's degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College London in 1993.^[5] She completed a PhD under Christodoulos A. Floudas at Princeton University in 1998^[5] and her thesis was titled 'Global optimization Techniques for Process Systems Engineering' .^[4]

In 1998 she joined the faculty at Imperial College London, where she was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering - Imperial Chemical Industries fellowship.^[5] She was appointed to Senior Lecturer in 2003 and Professor in 2011.^[6][5] She was a visiting professor at the Department of Chemistry at University of Warwick between 2007 and 2010.^[5] Her research focuses on integrating molecular level decisions into process design, property prediction and optimisation.^[5][7] Her group are developing computer-based process design techniques to improve the process economics as well as the material and energy efficiency.^[7] She is considered an expert in engineering molecular systems.^[8] Adjiman works with the oil and gas industry, solid oxide fuel cells and CO₂ capture.^[9]

In 2012 she was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Leadership Fellowship.^[10] She is the Director of Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London^[11][10] and is the co-director of the Institute of Molecular Science and Engineering at Imperial College London.^[5]

In 2015 she was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering.^[12] In 2016 she was elected to the Royal Society of Chemistry.^[13]

She is on the editorial board of the journals Molecular Systems Design & Engineering^[14] and Fluid Phase Equilibria.^[15] She is an Associate Editor for the journals Chemical Engineering Science and Journal of Global Optimization.^[15]

2009 - Leverhulme Trust Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering^[16]

2009 - Imperial College London Research Excellence Award^[17]

2011 - Society of Chemical Industry Henry Armstrong Lecture, Process Design: Don't Take the Molecules For Granted^[18]