BACG2026 Speaker Profile

Hamish Mitchell

EPSRC Research Fellow, University College London

Hamish obtained his undergraduate MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2020. Following from this, he obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2025, focusing on the crystallisation of GLP-1 analogue peptides, as part of an EPSRC Prosperity Partnership between Imperial, UCL, QMUL, and Eli Lilly and Company. Following his PhD, Hamish was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship in April 2025 and joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL as a research fellow. His current research focuses on the crystallisation of a range of therapeutic peptides for the development of more efficient and sustainable purification processes.