In the chemical process industries, natural disasters are commonly thought of as “Acts of God.” However, the risks of such events can be diminished with the right planning and preparation.
Patrick W. Mahan has been with FM Global for 23 years and is the principal engineer for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry segments (Email: patrick.mahan@fmglobal.com). Among his responsibilities are the management of FM Global’s chemical specialist program. The chemical specialist program includes over 180 dedicated individuals who visit over 6,000 chemical and pharmaceutical facilities around the world. He holds a BS in chemical engineering and petroleum refining from Colorado School of Mines.
Frank F. Liserio, Jr., has been with FM Global for 25 years and is a group manager of field engineering (Email: frank.liserio@fmglobal.com). He has managed engineering teams in Puerto Rico and Houston. During both Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, he led much of FM Global’s field engineering response, which included extended stays in both areas for weeks after the storms. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Texas and is coauthor of the CEP article “Consider Natural Hazards in Process Safety Management” (July 2008).
Caroline Ajo-Franklin is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Her research group uses biophysics and synthetic biology to engineer and explore the nanoscale interface between living microbes and inorganic materials. Her lab is a part of the Molecular Foundry, a Nanoscience User Facility, particularly interested in the basic mechanisms underlying charge transfer and assembly of materials at this living/non-living interface. The group’s...Read more
Isabel Rocha is Pro-rector for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NOVA University of Lisbon in Portugal and Principal Investigator at ITQB NOVA, from the same University. She did her PhD at Minho University, Portugal in Chemical and Biological Engineering and a Post-Doc at the Technical University of Denmark. Isabel does her research in Biotechnology covering the topics of Metabolic Engineering and Systems and Synthetic Biology and has published over 140 full papers in international journals, books and international conferences. She is the Principal Investigator of several projects and is...Read more
