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Martin Abraham

Martin A. Abraham has been a member of AIChE since 1985, when he joined as a graduate student making his first professional presentation. He was named a Fellow of AIChE in 2012. After receiving his PhD from the Univ. of Delaware, Abraham joined the Univ. of Tulsa as an Assistant Professor. He moved to the Univ. of Toledo as a Full Professor in 1996 and then became Dean of the STEM College at Youngstown State Univ. in 2007. After serving as Provost, he moved to Western Illinois Univ. where he became Interim President and received the Cathy O’Neill Couza Award for Outstanding Leadership in...Read more

Hesham El-Enshasy

HESHAM A. EL-ENSHASY, PhD, is Professor of Bioprocess Engineering and is Assistant Director for Research and Innovation for the Institute of Bioproduct Development (IBD) at Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia. Dr. El-Enshasy is also Professor at City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, Egypt....Read more

Shang-Tian Yang

SHANG-TIAN YANG, PhD, is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University as well as Director of the Ohio Bioprocessing Research Consortium. Cofounder of two biotechnology startup companies, Dr. Yang has conducted research in bioprocess engineering, fermentation, biocatalysis, cell and tissue engineering, metabolic engineering, and functional genomics....Read more

Richard Fickelscherer

Michael Schnitzlein

Alfonso Ibarreta

Dr. Ibarreta applies thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer principles to the study of combustion processes in fires, explosions, and a variety of combustion devices. He is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator and has investigated fires and explosions involving consumer products, residential and commercial buildings, and industrial facilities. Dr. Ibarreta is a principal member of the NFPA’s Technical Committee on Explosion Protection Systems. This committee is responsible for NFPA documents related to explosion protection systems for buildings and equipment, including...Read more

Zhenan Bao

Zhenan Bao is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford in 2004, she was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies from 1995-2004. She has over 350 refereed publications and over 50 US patents with a Google Scholar H-Index >100. She pioneered a number of design concepts for organic electronic materials. Her work has enabled flexible electronic circuits and displays. In her recent work, she has developed skin-inspired organic electronic materials, which resulted in unprecedented performance or functions in...Read more

Andrew Spakowitz

Dr. Andrew Spakowitz is an assistant professor at Stanford University and has 10 years of experience in academic research and teaching. Spakowitz received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Wisconsin in 1999. He also received a Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2004. Since starting his independent research program at Stanford, Spakowitz and coworkers have published ~20 papers, most of which have appeared in top journals such as Physics Review Letters, PNAS, and the Nature family of journals.Read more

Cawas Cooper

Dr. Cawas Cooper is a chemical engineer and has over 35 years of industrial experience in project management, process synthesis, research, development, scale-up, process demonstration, engineering, design, optimization, technology transfer, and commercialization.

Dr. Cooper joined Codexis in 2011 and has held positions of Senior Project Manager and Senior Manager, Process Engineering in the company. Recent projects involved enzymes and biochemicals production for detergent alcohols, biofuels, fine chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Before Codexis, he spent majority of his career at Air...Read more

Pradeep Jain

Pradeep Jain is a Senior Fellow for Feedstocks, Elastomers, E&T, Olefins, Aromatics & Alternatives, Packaging, H&M, and Polyethylene, Licensing & Catalyst, A&FM Technology. 

Pradeep Jain started at The Dow Chemical Company in 1989 as a Research Engineer in Specialty Polyolefin’s.  Over the past 25 years, he has led the process development for the proprietary olefins polymerization technologies including INSITETM and INFUSETM.  Pradeep’s significant innovations in solution polyolefin process technology have helped...Read more

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