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Charles W. Forsberg

Dr. Charles Forsberg is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study, teaches nuclear chemical engineering, and leads nuclear-renewable / nuclear-fossil studies in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. Before joining MIT, he was a Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recipient of the 2005 Robert E. Wilson Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for outstanding chemical engineering...Read more

Christopher Henry

Dr. Christopher Henry is a scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science division of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago (UC). He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University working with Professors Broadbelt and Hatzimanikatis studying Biochemical Thermodynamics and E. coli metabolism. Currently, Dr. Henry is working on several projects within the field of Computational Biology including: (i) development of methods, data, and software for automated reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic models in coloration with researchers...Read more

Cor Peters

Dr. Cor Peters, Chemical Engineering Department Chairman and Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi and was recently appointed as the director of the Gas Research Centre. His MSc and PhD comes from TU-Delft. Extended research stays were spent elsewhere in the world USA, Japan, New Zealand, UK, Spain and Argentina. He is an AIChE and IUPAC Fellow with more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals; 26 PhD students and more than 60 M.Sc. students supervised. Professor Peters has on-going research collaborations with TU-Delft, TU-...Read more

Carsten Cremers

Dr. Cremers was born August 1970 in Krefeld, Germany. He studied Chemistry at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, where he graduated as Dipl.-Chem in 1995 and received his PhD in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as Postdoc at the CNRS Laboratory LURE in Orsay, France on LIGA process for MEMS technology. In 2000, he joined the group of Ulrich Stimmiing at the TU München, where he led a project on hydrogen generation and later became group manger fuel cells at the associated ZAE Bayern working on direct methanol fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cells. In July 2006, he...Read more

Yingxu Peng

Dr. Daniel (Yingxu) Peng works in the Science Staff at the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD). Prior to joining OGD, Dr. Peng was a Senior Formulation Scientist in Pharmaceutical Development department of AstraZeneca for 4 years. Dr. Peng obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from West China University of Medical Sciences in 1998 and worked as Assistant Professor in Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry for 2 years. He completed post-doctoral research at College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). He then served as faculty in UTHSC for 4 years. He has...Read more

Dr. David S. Dickey

Dr. David Dickey started his own consulting business called MixTech, Inc., in 1998. Since then he has done independent consulting work to solve process and mechanical problems with various types of mixing equipment.

Much of David’s liquid mixing experience comes from a fifteen year career with Chemineer. As technical director for Chemineer, he helped develop a new impeller and several design procedures. His experience with customer lab tests provided him many opportunities for successful scale-up to process size mixers. David also worked for Patterson-Kelly, a manufacturer of...Read more

Dimitrios I. Gerogiorgis

Dr. Dimitrios Gerogiorgis holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1999); he obtained a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2003) and his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering (2004) from Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh, PA, USA; he was advised by Professor Erik Ydstie under both Fulbright and Onassis Doctoral Fellowships. He then held a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Imperial College, London, and subsequently joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, where he is a...Read more

Donald Visco

Dr. Donald P. Visco, Jr is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. As an educator, Visco has won a variety of awards including the National Outstanding Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) , as well as the Fahien Award from the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE. Visco has served in a variety of leadership roles in ASEE and currently serves as the 1st Vice-Chair for the Education Division of AIChE. Dr. Visco’s current research interests include computer-aided molecular design for the pharmaceutical industry, as well...Read more

Elizabeth C. Buc

Dr. Elizabeth Buc is the president of Fire and Materials Research Laboratory, LLC in Livonia, MI. She holds a bachelors and masters degree in Chemistry, a doctorate in Materials Science, and a PE in Metallurgical Engineering. She has over 14 years experience performing fire and non-fire related failure analysis, research and testing, and examination of artifacts from fires scenes. She enjoys investigating large fire losses and fires involving hazardous materials.Read more

Fei Chen

Dr. Fei Chen received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (NYSE:APD). Dr. Chen's area of interest covers separation science and technology, CO2 capture, engineering thermodynamics, as well as numerical modeling.Read more

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