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Iwona Kaluzna

Iwona Kaluzna has been working in the field of biocatalysis for over 10 years. Prior to working at DSM she has worked for Codexis and BioCatalytics. She has received her PhD at University of Florida, USA. She has broad experience in enzyme discovery, development and engineering. Her field of expertise also covers process development and optimization and scaling up enzymatic reactions. Furthermore, she is an author of number of publications in top scientific journals.Read more

Tricia Gillenwater

Tricia’s 17 years of process development work has ranged from technoeconomic analysis and feasibility studies to pilot plant design to more hands-on experimental work at the bench, pilot and demo-scale.  She has worked with a diverse set of technologies, including gasification at Allis Chalmers, catalysis and separations at UOP and wastewater treatment at Chemical Waste Management and Argonne National Laboratory.  For the past four years she has been with LanzaTech, evaluating the integration of LanzaTech’s gas fermentation process with upstream and downstream...Read more

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Martin Linck

Dr. Linck is a leading researcher in the field of biomass catalysis and hydropyrolysis for the production of liquid fuels and chemicals. From co-inventing to commercial pilot plant demonstration, Dr. Linck has pioneered the development of a breakthrough process for the efficient conversion of biomass to drop-in fuels with unparalleled economics. Marketed as IH2®, this advanced renewable biofuels process has been licensed to CRI Catalyst Company (Shell Group). His earlier work at the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) focused on ultra-efficient, low-NOx burners for industrial heating...Read more

Richard Helling

Dr. Rich Helling is Director of Sustainable Chemistry for The Dow Chemical Company, located in Midland, Michigan.   Rich advises Dow businesses on the use of LCA and related tools to identify opportunities for innovation, differentiate products in the marketplace and create sustainable value for Dow.  Rich has been with Dow for 29 years, in a variety of technical and managerial roles in R&D, Manufacturing and Sustainability, and has been based in Michigan, California and France.  Rich holds a bachelors' degree from Harvey Mudd College with majors in Engineering...Read more

John D. Bomberger

John Bomberger earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997 with an emphasis on process control and empirical modeling, and then promptly joined DuPont in Central Research & Development in Wilmington, Delaware. There, he primarily worked developing dynamic models for chemical and polymer processes and designing process control strategies before expanding into the creation of novel dynamic models of mechanical systems for fiber processing and products. After ten years, he moved laterally to the Engineering Research & Technology...Read more

Asad Sahir

Asad is currently working at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) National Bioenergy Center on research projects catering to conceptual process design, fuel blending, refinery integration and techno-economic analysis under the Strategic Analysis support and Thermochemical conversion platforms. He received his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee;  and pursued his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah (Advisors: Prof. JoAnn Lighty and Prof. Adel Sarofim) on process modeling of chemical-looping with oxygen uncoupling.  Prior to...Read more

Charles Siletti

Charles is currently director of Planning and Scheduling applications at Intelligen, Inc. He manages the  SchedulePro batch scheduling tool and related applications. He also does training and consulting work with SuperPro Designer batch simulation software. He is located in New Hampshire. Prior to joining Intelligen, Charles was a consultant for Life Sciences International and a process engineer at Mobil Research and Engineering.  There he worked on process simulation, real-time optimization as well as on-line process monitoring and diagnostics.  Charles obtained is Ph.D. in...Read more

Tracy Clarke-Pringle

Tracy received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and her Ph.D. from McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). She joined DuPont in 2000, hiring directly into the Dynamic Simulation, Control and Optimization group in DuPont’s central Engineering organization. In her early years at DuPont, she worked on advanced process and quality control implementations in DuPont’s white pigments business, and helped establish multivariate statistics as a group competency. In 2005, she transitioned into dynamic simulation, with...Read more

David Couling

David Couling is an Associate Research Scientist at Dow Chemical.  David joined Dow in 2012 and has worked on process development projects with multiple Dow businesses.  He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and both a M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....Read more

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