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George W. Huber

George W. Huber is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. George is developing new processes to make renewable fuels and chemicals. He is co-founder of Anellotech, a biofuel company focused on catalytic fast pyrolysis a technology to convert biomass into aromatics. George has authored over 56 peer-reviewed publications and has 7 patent applications. He has received over $13 million in competitive federal grants to develop new technologies for biomass conversion including the NSF CAREER award. George did a post-doctoral stay with Avelino Corma...Read more

Pablo Ricardo Barrera

Graduated in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Safety Engineering by Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Braskem employee since 2001 in Safety, Health and Environmental area. Process Safety Specialist at Basic Petrochemical Unit in South Brazil, dealing with risk management, loss prevention and insurance issues. Risk Management professor at Safety Engineering course of UFGRS and UNISINOS, respectively, a federal and private university in South Brazil.Read more

Greg McMillan

Gregory K. McMillan received a B.S. from Kansas University in 1969 in Engineering Physics and a M.S. from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla) in 1976 in Electrical Engineering (Control Theory). Greg is a retired Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc. During his 33 year career with Monsanto Company and its spin-off Solutia Inc, he specialized in improving loop performance, controller tuning, valve dynamics, opportunity assessments, and the measurement and control of bioprocesses, compressors, neutralizers, and reactors using a virtual plant as his laboratory.Read more

Hans Boot

Hans Boot is a Senior Researcher at TNO in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He received his MASc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente.  He is involved in various functions at Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (Contract Research). He has worked 19 years in the field of “Energy research”: fundamental heat transfer, applied thermodynamics industrial processes and 6 years in “Safety research”: modeling consequences and risks of accidents with hazardous releases....Read more

Hans E. Kimmel

Hans E. Kimmel is Executive Director Research and Development at Ebara International Corporation in Nevada, USA. He received a Master Degree in Mechanical and Process Engineering and a PhD in Munich, Germany. His main contributions are in the LNG technology.Read more

Hari Krishna Bharadwaj

Hari Krishna Bharadwaj is a Chemical Engineering Master's Student from the University of Cincinnati.He completed his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Anna University India.His Research Interests include CO2 sequestration,Green Engineering and Process Design.Read more

Dr. Hemant N. Joshi

Hemant N. Joshi, Ph.D., MBA is the founder of Tara Innovations LLC. Dr. Joshi completed his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas majoring in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He completed his MBA at Fairleigh Dickinson University majoring in International Business. Dr. Joshi has over 20 years of industrial experience. He worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Barr Laboratories, Forest Laboratories etc. He has developed several types of drug delivery systems including tablets, injectables, oil-filled hard gelatin capsules, creams/ointment, nasal/oral sprays etc....Read more

Huiquan Wu

Huiquan Wu received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with Minor in Materials Science and Engineering from Iowa State University in 2001. As a chemical engineer with 18-year full-time working experience across academia, industry, and regulatory agency, he has been involved in a few major FDA initiatives (PAT, cGMP for the 21st Century, Pharmaceutical Inspectorate, QbD) designed to address challenges and opportunities related to pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and quality assurance in an integrated system approach since 2002. He participated the FDA PAT Guidance drafting and...Read more

S. Marjan Varedi K.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. My dissertation is in systems and synthetic biology field and I expect to defend by August 2011. I earned a master degree in Biotechnology at University of Tehran, Iran, in 2006.Read more

Syed Ali Gardezi

I am currently enrolled as a PhD student at University of South Florida. The main area of my research is in thermo-chemical biomass conversion to liquid petroleum. Prior to my PhD studies, I did Masters in Chemical Engineering from USF in 2010. I have seven years industrial experience as Ammonia operations engineer. I also have cryogenic storage training from China under my Belt.Read more

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