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Gregory Stephanopoulos

Gregory N. Stephanopoulos is the 2016 AIChE President and the W. H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. After obtaining his chemical engineering doctorate at Univ. of Minnesota, he taught at Caltech before joining MIT in 1985. His research focuses on metabolic engineering — the engineering of microbes to convert them to chemical factories for the production of fuels and chemicals. He has co-authored or edited five books, including co-authoring the first textbook on Metabolic Engineering, 450 papers, 50 patents, and supervised more than 150 graduate students and post-docs. He is...Read more

Georges Belfort

Georges Belfort, PhD, holds an endowed Institute Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI; Troy, NY), and conducts research on membrane-based purification of mRNA (vaccines), in vitro production and purification of biofuels, and organic solvents. He was educated in chemical engineering at the Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa, where he received his BS degree, and at the Univ. of California at Irvine, where he earned an MS and PhD in engineering. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2003; chosen by AIChE as one of the “100 Chemical Engineers of...Read more

Al Armendariz

Al Armendariz was appointed by President Obama on November 5, 2009, as the Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, in Dallas. As Regional Administrator he is responsible for managing the Agency’s regional activities under the direction of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. The region encompasses Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and 66 Tribal Nations.

 Prior to his appointment, for eight years he was a professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he...Read more

James C. Liao

Professor Liao received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After working as a research scientist at Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, he started his academic career at Texas A&M University in 1990 and moved to University of California, Los Angeles in 1997. He was Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair Professor and Department Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering until 2016. He has served as President of Academia Sinica in Taiwan since June 2016.

Professor Liao is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences...Read more

Jens Nielsen

Jens Nielsen has received numerous Danish and international awards including the Villum Kann Rasmussen’s Årslegat, Merck Award for Metabolic Engineering, Amgen Award for Biochemical Engineering, Nature Mentor Award, the Gaden Award, the Norblad-Ekstrand gold medal, the Novozymes Prize, the ENI Award and the Eric and Sheila Samson Prize. He is member of several academies, including the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences in USA, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a founding president of the International Metabolic Engineering Society.Read more

Dr. Ron Elsdon

Ron Elsdon, Ph.D. (www.elsdon.com) is a founder of Elsdon Organizational Renewal (a division of Elsdon, Inc.) and New Beginnings Career and College Guidance. Ron specializes in the workforce and career development fields, providing organizational career services and consulting, individual career counseling and coaching, public speaking, publishing and lecturing.  Ron has more than 25 years of leadership experience at diverse organizations in a broad range of sectors, and has been an adjunct faculty member at, or affiliated with, several universities...Read more

Arthur M. Dowell

- Principal, AM Dowell III PE - 42 years, Rohm and Haas Company, now Dow - BA/BS ChE, Rice University, 1966/1967 - Fellow, AIChE. Member, ISA - Bill Doyle Award, 1991 -2002 Albert F. Sperry Founder’s Award from ISA for “outstanding contribution in the devRead more

Eun Joong Oh

1. Education (M.S.) Agricultural Biotechnology Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea) 2008 (B.S.) Food Science & Technology Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea) 2004 2. Publication Yong-Joo Oh, Tae-Hee Lee, Sung-Haeng Lee, Eun-Joong Oh, Yeon-Woo Ryu, Myoung-Dong Kim, and Jin-Ho Seo, 2007. Dual modulation of glucose 6-phosphate metabolism to increase NADPH-dependent xylitol production in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic, 47:37-42Read more

Masahiko Hirao

1981 Bachelor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Tokyo 1989 Ph.D. Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Tokyo 1987-1996 Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. 1996-1999 Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo 1999-2006 Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo 2006-Present Professor, Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of TokyoRead more

Sylvia Reiche

1983 - born in Oschatz, Germany Sept. 2005 – Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany) Oct. 2005 till June 2008 – Master of Science, Chemistry, Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany) July 2006 till March 2007 – Employee at R&D of Contact Materials, Umicore AG & Co. KG, Hanau, Germany Oct. 2007 till March 2008 – Master’s thesis with Prof. Dr. Dan Goia at Center for Advanced Material Processing (CAMP), Clarkson University, Postdam, NY, United States since July 2008 – PhD student at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Berlin, Germany),...Read more

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