Dr Kelly graduated in Mechanical Engineering and was awarded a PhD in 1997 for industrially sponsored research into process rheometry of extrusion compounding. He then took up a post doctoral post in the IRC Polymer Engineering research group at the University of Bradford working on a range of polymer processing based research projects. In 2003 Dr Kelly managed a WRAP funded project to investigate recycling of PVC-rich waste and in 2005 he was awarded funding from the DTI for a research project aimed at encouraging the UK polymer industry to adopt process metrology. Dr Kelly became a Research Investment Lecturer in 2005 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Polymer Engineering in 2011. He teaches in materials, thermodynamics, polymer engineering and computer monitoring and instrumentation at undergraduate and MSc level. He is the Placements Tutor for the School of Engineering. His current research interests include process monitoring, thermal optimisation, pharmaceutical polymer engineering, nanocomposites, biopolymers, recyclates and fuel cells. In 2010 he co-founded the Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science with colleagues in Engineering and Life Sciences; he is also active in the Centre of Advanced Materials Engineering and the the Centre for Polymer Micro and Nano Technology.

Abeykoon C., Kelly A.L., Brown E.C. and Coates P.D. (2016): "Process Settings and Screw Geometry on Energy Consumption and Melt Temperature in Single Screw Extrusion" Applied Energy, 180 172-181.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261916309552 Wood C., Alwati A.A., Halsey S.A., Gough T. and Kelly A.L. (2016): "Near infra red spectroscopy as a multivariate process analytical tool for predicting pharmaceutical co-crystal concentration" Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 129 172-181.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0731708516303272 Meng L., Wu D., Kelly A., Woodhead M. and Liu Y. (2016): "Experimental investigation of the rheological behaviours of polypropylene in a capillary flow" Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 133 (22).For more information see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/app.43459/full Kulkarni C., Wood C., Kelly A.L., Gough T. and Paradkar T. (2015): "Stoichiometric Control of Co-Crystal Formation by Solvent Free Continuous Co-Crystallization (SFCC)" Crystal Growth and Design, 15 (12): 5648-5651.For more information see: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00806 Kelly A.L., Halsey S.A., Bottom R.A., Korde S. and Gough S. (2015): "A Novel Transflectance Near Infrared Spectroscopy Technique for Monitoring Hot Melt Extrusion" International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 496 (1): 117-123.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517315300442 Vera Sorroche J., Kelly A.L., Brown E.C. and Coates P.D. (2015): "Infrared Melt Temperature Measurement of Single Screw Extrusion" Polymer Engineering and Science, 55 (5): 1059-1066.For more information see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pen.23976/abstract Karandikar H., Ambardekar R., Kelly A., Gough T. and Paradkar T. (2015): "Systematic identification of thermal degradation products of HPMCP during hot melt extrusion process" International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 486 252-258.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517315003142 Abeykoon C., Vera Sorroche J., Kelly A.L., Brown E.C. and Coates P.D. (2014): "Process Efficiency in Polymer Extrusion: Correlation between the Energy Demand and Melt Thermal Stability" Applied Energy, 135 560-571.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191400909X Vera Sorroche J., Kelly A.L., Brown E.C., Gough T. and Abeykoon C. (2014): "The Effect of Melt Viscosity on Thermal Efficiency for Single Screw Extrusion of HDPE" Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 92 (11): 2404-2412.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263876213005431 Abeykoon C., Kelly A.L., Brown E.C., Vera-Sorroche J. and Coates P.D. (2014): "Investigation of the Temperature Homogeneity of Die Melt Flows in Polymer Extrusion" Polymer Engineering and Science, 54 (10): 2430-2440.For more information see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pen.23784/abstract Lin X., Kelly A., Woodhead M., Ren D. and Wang K. (2014): "Capillary Study on Geometrical Dependence of Shear Viscosity of Polymer Melts" Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 131 (6).For more information see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/app.39982/abstract Abeykoon C., Li K., Martin P.J. and Kelly A.L. (2014): "Dynamic modelling of die melt temperature profile in polymer extrusion: Effects of process settings, screw geometry and material" Applied Mathematical Modelling, 38 1224-1236.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0307904X1300509X Mahmah O., Tabbakh R., Kelly A. and Paradkar A. (2014): "A comparative study of the effect of spray drying and hot melt extrusion on the properties of amorphous solid dispersions containing felodipine" Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 66 (2): 275-284 .For more information see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jphp.12099/abstract Abeykoon C., Kelly A.L., Brown E.C., Vera Sorroche J. and Coates P.D. (2014): "Investigation of the Process Energy Demand in Polymer Extrusion: A Brief Review and an Experimental Study" Applied Energy, 136 726-737.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261914009714 Deng J., Li K., Harkin-Jones E., Price M. and Kelly A.L. (2014): "Energy monitoring and quality control of a single screw extruder" Applied Energy, 113 1775-1785.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261913007289 Bao W., Wu H., Guo S., Paradkar A. and Kelly A. (2014): "Effect of Ultrasound on Molecular Structure Development of Poly-Lactide Acid" Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering, 53 (9): 927-934.For more information see: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03602559.2014.886062 Deng J., Li K., Harkin-Jones E., Price M. and Kelly A. (2014): "Low-cost process monitoring for polymer extrusion" Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 36 (3): 382-390.For more information see: http://tim.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/09/26/0142331213502696.abstract?rss=1 Lin X., Kelly A., Woodhead M., Ren D. and Wang D. (2013): "Geometrical dependence of Viscosity of Polymethylmethacrylate Melt in Capillary Flow" Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 130 (5): 3384-3394.For more information see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/app.39591/abstract Kulkarni C., Kelly A., Kendrick J., Gough T. and Paradkar A. (2013): "Mechanism of polymorphic transformation of artemisinin during high temperature extrusion" Crystal Growth and Design, 13 (12): 5157-5161 .For more information see: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cg400891b Vera-Sorroche J., Kelly A., Brown E., Coates P. and Karnachi P. (2013): "Thermal Optimisation of Polymer Extrusion using In-process Monitoring Techniques" Applied Thermal Engineering, 53 (2): 405-413.For more information see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359431112002566