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Keith Wade

Tom Farmer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Tom has been with Zeeco, Inc. since 2007 and holds the position of Flare Applications Engineer. Tom has designed elevated flares, air flares, steam assisted flares, ground flares, vent stacks, burn pits and offshore flares throughout his career.Read more

Trung V. Nguyen

Trung Nguyen is a full professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at The University of Kansas. His research interest is in interfacial and transport phenomena in fuel cells and batteries and mathematical modeling of electrochemical systems.Read more

Vinu Ravikrishnan

Vinu Ravikrishnan graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2010. Since July 2010, he is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Northwestern University, working with Prof. Linda J. Broadbelt. His research interests include biomass conversion for sustainable energy, photocatalysis for environmental remediation, and resource recovery through polymer degradation.Read more

Vladimiros Nikolakis

Vladimiros Nikolakis (Chemical Engineer, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering University of Massachussetts Amherst 2001) is a Principal Researcher at FORTH/ICEHT. His research interests include preparation and characterization of inorganic membranes, membrane separations, modelling of transport and adsorption in microporous materials, zeolite crystallization mechanisms, and encapsulation of Ionic Liquids in porous media having as goal the development of composite High Temperature PEMs comprised from polymers, zeolites and ionic liquids. He has participated in more than 10 R&D projects, funded by...Read more

Wenfang Liu

Wenfang Liu received her Ph.D in Materials Science from Tsinghua University in China in January 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Jian Yu. She was a postdoctoral associate in the group of Prof. Ping Wang during 2005-2006 at National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Processing Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She holds B.E. and M.S. degrees in polymer from Tianjin University of Science and Technology in China. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Control, School of Chemical Engineering and Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)...Read more

J.Will Medlin

Will Medlin obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering at the University of Delaware in 2001 with Mark A. Barteau. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories from 2001 until 2003, when he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado (CU). He is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at CU. In 2010-2011 he has been a Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zurich. He is the co-founder and CU Site Director for the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2), and is a founding fellow of the joint CU/NREL Renewable and Sustainable Energy...Read more

William A. Tisdale

Will Tisdale joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT in 2012, where he is the Charles & Hilda Roddey Career Development Associate Professor. His research program is focused on the development of nanoscale semiconductor materials for use in next-generation energy technologies.Read more

William E. Bentley

William E. Bentley is the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering and founding Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering. He is also appointed in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Center for Biosystems Research of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.Read more

Joe Stough

With a professional background in large-scale database software design and a graduate degree in Applied Statistics from the University of California, Joe Stough is the visionary and strategist behind the IMPACT ERM® Suite. Stough originally designed IMPACT to not only consolidate data from a broad array of different “risk reduction” processes but also to do so in a manner which practically enables the application of advanced statistical methods. With early adoption in the mid 1990’s in the Energy Industry for many Safety-related business practices, the use of the IMPACT solution now spans...Read more

Xinshu Zhuang

Xinshu Zhuang, PhD., Associate professor, Research Director of Bio-chemical Conversion Lab, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is major in the mechanism and process research on cellulosic ethanol. She published more than 60 papers in which 20 are accepted by SCI or EI, and authorized 4 patents.Read more

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