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Bogdan Dlugoroski

Professor Dlugogorski is distinguished for his contributions to the field of industrial safety and environment protection, especially through innovative development of safe industrial processes. He has introduced new means to improve the performance of fire-fighting foams, thereby facilitating the development of new generation fluorine-free foams. He has made outstanding and sustained contributions to improving safety in the process industry, by modifying the existing technologies and developing safer industrial processes.Read more

Dr. Steven Bryant

Dr. Bryant has worked on a variety of exploration and production problems at BP Research in England; on petrochemicals research at BP Chemicals R&D in Scotland; on production chemistry and surface science problems at EniTecnologie in Italy; and on reactive transport modeling at Rice University and the University of Texas. His current research interests are in modeling reactive flow in chemical, petroleum and environmental engineering applications, and in pursuing novel approaches for understanding transport phenomena at the pore scale. Dr. Bryant is Associate Director for...Read more

Bob Perry

Bob Perry is the Senior Chemist at GE Global Research. With more and more attention being paid to climate change and global warming, our team is looking at economically efficient ways of capturing CO2 from coal-fired power plants. This involves not only finding the right chemistry to react with CO2 but also design processes that will be energy efficient, occupy as little space as possible, utilize minimal amounts of water and provide GE with business opportunities.Read more

Jun Liu

Among his many contributions, Liu pioneered the development and understanding of nanoporous materials, containing specially designed pores thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair. The resulting technology, for example, could be used to remove mercury from waste water produced at offshore oil platforms. The technology has unprecedented efficiency and capacity. It was commercialized and has received major awards, including a recent U.S. Department of Energy award for technology transfer.
Liu also developed an environmentally friendly method for the large-scale production...Read more

Dr. David J. Heldebrant

Dr. David J. Heldebrant is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Materials Chemistry and Surface Research Group in the Energy and Efficiency Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Heldebrant joined PNNL as a post-doctoral research scientist in 2005.
Dr. Heldebrant’s current research involves the design and development of switchable ionic liquids that chemically capture acid gases such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide from power plant gas emissions. Dr. Heldebrant’s CO2-Binding Organic Liquids (CO2BOLs) have shown potential to capture CO2 and SO2 using up to 50...Read more

Peter Eisenberger

Peter Eisenberger has studied and worked in the applied sciences field for more than four decades.  He started his career at Bell Laboratories in 1968 where from 1974-1981 he was a department head and his research interests involved using X-ray produced by Synchrotron radiation to study the structural properties of complex solids and surfaces.  In 1981, Eisenberger joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company as Director of their Physical Sciences laboratory, where he remained until 1989.

In 1989, Dr. Eisenberger was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the...Read more

Dr. Greg Dipple

Dr. Dipple studies the processes of and driving forces for mineral reactions with a focus on fluid-rock interactions. His research publications span environments from the upper mantle to the near surface. Over the past decade, his primary research interests have migrated from deep crustal metamorphic processes to shallower magmatic-hydrothermal systems and associated mineral deposits to, most recently, carbon sequestration at and near the surface of the Earth. The commonality between these projects is the integration of field data and forward models for heat-mass transport and reaction,...Read more

Marco Mazzotti

Marco Mazzotti, an Italian and Swiss citizen born in 1960, married, with two children, has been professor of process engineering at ETH Zurich since May 1997 (associate until March 2001 and full professor thereafter). Before joining ETH Zurich, he had worked for IBM Italy (1985-1987) and Montefluos (1988-1990), and had been assistant professor at the Politecnico di Milano (1994-1997). His research activity deals with adsorption based separations and chromatography, and with crystallization and precipitation processes. The application areas of interest are the purification of...Read more

Berend Smit

Berend Smit received in 1990 cum laude PhD in Chemistry from Utrecht University (the Netherlands). He was a (senior) Research Physicists at Shell Research from 1988-1997, Professor of Computational Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 1997-2007. In 2004 Berend Smit was elected Director of the European Center of Atomic and Molecular Computations (CECAM) Lyon France. Since 2007 he is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at U.C. Berkeley and Faculty Chemist at Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2009 he is the director of...Read more

Dr. Tim Fox

Dr. Tim Fox has a wide range of research and engineering practice experience gained across many industrial sectors including the built environment, power generation, chemical processing, renewable energy and aerospace. He has worked in commercial enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions in the UK, Australia, Canada and The Netherlands. Tim is currently Head of Energy and Environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in London. His role involves developing and communicating the Institution’s policies on energy, environment and sustainability issues,...Read more

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