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Dr. Yury Gogotsi

Dr. Yury Gogotsi is Distinguished University Professor and Trustee Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He also holds appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University and serves as Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute. He served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 2003 to 2007. He received his MS (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees from Kiev Polytechnic and a DSc degree from the Ukrainian Academy of Science in 1995. His research group works on all kinds of...Read more

Dr. Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.

Thomas M. Connelly, Jr. is Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of DuPont, and a member of the company's Office of the Chief Executive. He has responsibility for Applied BioSciences, Nutrition & Health, Performance Polymers, and Packaging & Industrial Polymers businesses.  He also has responsibility for Science & Technology and the geographic regions outside the United States, as well as Integrated Operations which includes Operations, Sourcing & Logistics and Engineering.  He joined DuPont in 1977, as research engineer at the DuPont Experimental...Read more

James B. Porter, Jr.

James B. Porter, Jr. is Principal Consultant for DuPont Safety Resources. Drawing on over 40 years of hands-on DuPont safety, health and environment engineering, as well as operations experience, Jim helps customers make significant and sustainable improvements in workplace safety, process safety management, and operational excellence. Previously, Jim was chief engineer and vice president of Engineering and Operations for DuPont until his retirement in 2008. Jim joined DuPont in 1966 as a chemical engineer in the engineering service division. He was named vice president of Engineering in...Read more

Lise Laurin

Lise Laurin founded EarthShift in 2000 to support businesses in their endeavor to reduce environmental impacts. She brings to this effort over 20 years in industry, with roles in manufacturing engineering, R&D, and marketing. For the last nine years, she has been working at various levels of capacity building within the areas of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Total Cost Assessment (TCA), providing software tools, training, and consulting. Lise chairs the AIChE’s TCA Roundtable. She is a member of the board of advisors of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, a member of the...Read more

Jim Welch

Jim Welch is the executive director of the Elizabeth R Griffin Research Foundation, a non-profit foundation that works globally with institutions and organizations promoting the strengthening of global health research capacity and the awareness of biosafety and biosecurity issues associated with that research. He also serves on the advisory board of the National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. In his first career, Jim taught history for thirty years in the Kingsport, Tennessee public school system. His numerous teaching awards include his...Read more

Ted Michaels

Ted Michaels is a Partner with AJW, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in working with new and advanced energy and environmental technologies to understand and shape public policies affecting their business.  In this capacity, he currently holds the position of President of the Energy Recovery Council (ERC), the national trade association representing the waste-to-energy sector.  ERC promotes the use of waste-to-energy technology as a key component of community programs to manage solid waste.  As President of ERC, Mr. Michaels is responsible for the legislative, regulatory...Read more

Dr. Stuart T. Arm

Dr. Stuart T. Arm has a PhD and MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology, United Kingdom.Read more

Ron B. Crum

Mr. Crum is Vice President of Louisiana Operations for the environmental group in URS Corporation.  He is a member of the National Petrochemical and Refinery Association (NPRA) Environmental Committee.  Mr. Crum has over 30 years of experience and has worked in all aspects of the environmental industry....Read more

Brian Shrager

Brian Shrager is an Environmental Engineer in the Energy Strategies Group (ESG) at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In the past, Mr. Shrager has worked on the development of national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for industrial sources including industrial boilers and process heaters, various types of solid waste incinerators, brick kilns, refractory manufacturing, and others. Mr. Shrager also drafted many sections of EPA’s emission factor compilation document, known...Read more

Timothy Myers

Dr. Timothy Myers is an engineering consultant who assists clients in assessing combustible dust hazards in their facilities and developing mitigation methods.  

He is a member of several ASTM and NFPA committees responsible for standards related to assessing combustible dust and preventing and mitigating combustible dust fires and explosions. Dr. Myers has investigated catastrophic dust explosions that have occurred throughout the world. 

He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California and is a licensed engineer in multiple states...Read more

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