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Dr Andrew YORK
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Andrew York is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge working on the PIPS project "Building a Capability in Magnetic Resonance Methods for the Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Sector within PIPS".
Andrew has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, 25 years of experience at Johnson Matthey’s global R&D centre, and holds honorary research positions at the Universities of Liverpool, Glasgow and Birmingham. His work spans catalysis, emissions control, reaction engineering, functional materials, and the development of advanced characterisation methods. He has also led engine test research exploring the impact of emerging fuels and powertrains on emissions. He has been at the forefront of major academic collaborations worldwide and published over 150 peer reviewed papers across the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering and materials science.
His more recent contributions in catalysis and materials design are through high throughput synthesis and characterisation, and the development of operando and in situ techniques such as X ray tomography, MRI, neutron imaging, and spatially resolved reaction monitoring, as well as more accessible low field NMR for rapid materials analysis.
Andrew’s work focuses on bridging fundamental science with industrial application, enabling collaborative innovation across disciplines.
Cambridge
Researchers
PIPS
Research Interest
Catalysis
Key Publications
R. Villamaina, S. Liu, I. Nova, E. Tronconi, M.P. Ruggeri, J. Collier, A.P.E. York and D. Thompsett, Speciation of Cu Cations in Cu-CHA Catalysts for NH3-SCR: Effects of SiO2/Al2O3 Ratio and Cu-Loading Investigated by Transient Response Methods, ACS Catalysis, 9(10) (2019) 8916-8927.
J.D. Cooper, A.P.E. York, A.J. Sederman and L.F. Gladden, Measuring velocity and turbulent diffusivity in wall-flow filters using compressed sensing magnetic resonance, Chem. Eng. J., 377 (2019) 119690-119699.
M. Al-Sharabi, D. Markl, V. Vivacqua, P. Bawuah, N. MacLean, M. Bentley, A.P.E. York, M. Marigo, K. Huang and J.A. Zeitler, Terahertz pulsed imaging as a new method for investigating the liquid transport kinetics of -alumina powder compacts, Chem. Eng. Res. & Des., 165 (2021) 386-397.
M.P. Jones, M. Storm, A.P.E. York, T.I. Hyde, G.D. Hatton, A.G. Greenaway, S.J. Haigh and D.S. Eastwood, 4D In-Situ Microscopy of Aerosol Filtration in a Wall-Flow Filter, Materials, 13 (2020) 5676-5688.
J.J. Quayle, A.P. Katsoulidis, J.B. Claridge, A.P.E. York, D. Thompsett and M.J. Rosseinsky, A Proxy for Oxygen Storage Capacity from High-throughput Screening and Automated Data Analysis, Chem. Sci., 14 (2023) 12621 – 12636.
T.M. Nyathi, N. Fischer, A.P.E. York and M. Claeys, Environment-Dependent Catalytic Performance and Phase Stability of Co3O4 in the Preferential Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide Studied in situ, ACS Catalysis, 10 (2020) 11892-11911.
M.D. Mantle, M. Ainte, A.P.E. York, M. Bentley and L.F. Gladden, A simple 1H PFG-NMR method to determine intracrystalline molecular self-diffusivities for weakly adsorbing hydrocarbon gases in microporous materials, Catal. Today, 431 (2024) 114561-114569.
A. Lanza, D. Bounechada, S. Raphy, R. Sato, L. Phillipson, A. Kolpin and A.P.E. York, The effect of the oxygen storage material on a three-way catalyst spatio-temporally resolved with Spaci-MS, Catal. Today, 437 (2024) 114775 - 114784.
H. Cavaye, C. Ballas, W. Kockelmann, S.F. Parker, P. Collier, A.P.E. York and D. Lennon, The application of neutron imaging to examine ethene hydrogenation over a carbon-supported palladium catalyst, Scientific Reports, 15 (2025) 8579 – 8588.