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Lawrence I. Grossman

Dr. Lawrence I. Grossman is Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and the Henry L. Brasza Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He received a B.S. (chemistry) from the City College of New York and Ph.D. (genetics and biochemistry) from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, where he first studied mitochondrial DNA with Julius Marmur. He was then named a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, working with Jerome Vinograd. He has been one of the pioneers in...Read more

Liyu Li

Dr. Li has broad experience in the field of materials science, including glasses, ceramics, inorganic absorbents, heterogeneous catalysts, inorganic ion exchangers, and electrical energy storage materials. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers in these areas. He also has three US patents granted, and ten other US patent applications on file. Currently, Dr. Li is a project manager and lead principle investigator at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. At this position, he has both research management and technical supervisory responsibilities for the execution of...Read more

Kuyen Li

Dr. Li is a professor in the Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, where he has been since 1978. He had four years industrial working experiences before joining Lamar. His research activities include applications of dynamic simulation in chemical process industry, pollution control by photo-catalytic oxidation, and development of low cost silicon production process. His consultant work includes several leading chemical and electronic material companies. He also performed environmental consultancy to the United Nations Development Programs (...Read more

Wei Liu

Dr. Liu received his BS degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences, MS degree in Analytical Chemistry from Tufts University, and ScD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He is currently working at Pacific Northwest National Lab as a chief engineer and has been leading several research fronts of novel separation and reaction technologies for energy and environmental applications. Prior to PNNL, he worked for Corning Incorporated as a research project manager, Amoco Oil Company (now BP) as...Read more

Hui Jin

Dr. Lundteigen has worked in the area of safety instrumented systems for more than 15 years. Her main industry experience is related to safety instrumented systems and their use at the onshore and offshore facilities, but she has also worked with railway signaling systems and automation systems in general. She has a MSc. in engineering cybernetics and a PhD in RAMS (reliability, availability, maintenance, and safety) for safety instrumented systems. Currently, she holds a full time professorship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a part-time position as a Sr....Read more

Michael Brian Mackaplow

Dr. Mackaplow in an Associate Research Fellow / Group leader in NCE Formulation Sciences at Abbott (Chicago, Illinois, USA). He has over 15 years of industrial experience, specializing in late-stage development and technical transfers. He received a B.S. (1990) in chemical engineering from the University of California, Davis (1990), and a M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) in chemical engineering from Stanford University.Read more

Mariano Martín

Dr. Martin earned his PhD in the University of Salamanca in 2008. Right after that, he joined the Modelling and Simulation gruop of P&G in Newcastle (UK) for a posdoctoral position and a year later he was granted a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon university where he spent almost two years before we obtained an assistant professorship position at the University of Salamanca in 2011.Read more

Georges A. Melhem, Ph.D., FAIChE

Georges A. Melhem, Ph.D., FAIChE is President and Chief Executive Officer of ioMosaic, and is an internationally known expert in the areas of pressure relief and flare systems design, chemical reaction systems, process safety, and risk analysis. As the founder of ioMosaic Corporation, he has over 30 years of engineering and process safety experience, and has participated in numerous risk management, consequence analysis, and quantitative risk assessment studies for commercial and government clients.

Dr. Melhem has provided litigation support and expert witness testimony to...Read more

Michael J. Antal

Dr. Michael Antal occupies the Coral Industries Chair of Renewable Energy Resources within the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii. He is author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed archival publications and 11 patents and patents pending. Recently his citation record entered the top 1% of total citations in all fields of Engineering.Read more

Monica Zanfir

Dr. Monica Zanfir has been a Development Specialist in Praxair’s Hydrogen and Energy R&D Department since October 2005. Prior to joining Praxair, Dr Zanfir was a Research Fellow at University College London (UCL) for 4 years. The research developed at UCL was focused on modeling of novel multiphase reactors concepts such as: micro-falling film reactor, micro-mesh reactor and rotating disc reactor. Dr Zanfir holds a PhD from UCL, her thesis was one of the works that pioneered the concept of catalytic plate reactors for autothermal coupling of catalytic combustion and methane steam...Read more

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