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European Conference on Process Safety and Big Data - 2019 - eVision Industry Software

European Conference on Process Safety and Big Data - 2019 - eVision Industry Software

Susan Sharfstein

Susan Sharfstein is a Professor of Nanobioscience at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York. Professor Sharfstein received her B.S. in chemical engineering with honors from Caltech in 1987 and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 1993, receiving graduate fellowships from the university and the National Science Foundation. She received a National Institutes of Health Individual Research Service Award to pursue postdoctoral studies, initially at UC Berkeley and subsequently at the UCLA Medical School. Dr. Sharfstein joined the faculty at the University of Toledo in...Read more

Marcel Wubbolts

Marcel Wubbolts holds a PhD from the department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, NL, and was Post-Doctoral research associate and subsequently Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biotechnology at the ETH in Zürich, CH leading a research group on biocatalyst development and remained there until late 1997. Following his positions in academia, he joined the Life Sciences and Material Sciences company DSM in Geleen, where he has held several positions including that of Chief Technology Officer.

As Chief Technology Officer, Marcel is responsible for Corbion’s global Science...Read more

Christine Santos

Christine Santos is the Chief Technology Officer of Manus Bio where she leads the development and scale-up of a breakthrough biomanufacturing platform for the commercial production of natural products. She has almost two decades of academic and industrial experience in metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and biotechnology, is an inventor on 18 issued and pending patent families, and has published her work in several high-impact journals, including Science, Nature, and PNAS. Christine obtained her BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from...Read more

Alexandre Zanghellini

Dr. Alexandre Zanghellini is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Arzeda Corporation, which combines nature's biological tools and advanced computational design to create innovative cell factors that can transform or supplement current chemical production methods. Alex leads Arzeda’s corporate strategy, including technology and product development. Alex is one of the inventors of Arzeda’s synthetic biology platform for protein design and metabolic pathway design and is a keen believer in the power of biotechnology to solve some of our biggest societal challenges,...Read more

Hiroshi Shimizu

Hiroshi Shimizu is a Professor in the Graduate School for Information Science and Technology at Osaka University. His expertise lies in Bioinformatic Engineering and Metabolic Engineering. Dr. Shimizu's research interests lie in bioprocesses for production of chemicals and fuels using microorganisms. By constructing models based on genome information, he has developed a technology to design metabolism in silico in order to produce the target substance. He is researching methods to experimentally determine the metabolic flux by isotope-labeled compound tracing experiments....Read more

Ying-Jin Yuan

Ying-Jin Yuan is a Professor of Biochemical Engineering and Vice President of Research at Tianjin University. He is also the Director for Key Lab of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education) and Dean of Institute of Science and Technology Development at the university. Dr. Yuan received his Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. from Tianjin University.

His previous appointments include being Director of Science and Technology Division, Dean of School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Vice-chair of Department of Biochemical Engineering, Chairman of Institute of Nature...Read more

Sven Panke

Sven Panke is a Full Professor in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich. His research focuses on the design of novel bioprocesses for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. His lab addresses fundamental issues in biocatalyst discovery, biocatalyst engineeirng and process engineering. His work has been published in numorous journals with over 5,700 citations and an h-index of 36.

Dr. Panke is the receipient of DSM Research Award and the ETH Silver medal. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Biotechnology...Read more

Katharina Nöh

Katharina Nöh is the Head of Team Modeling of Biochemical Networks and Cells in the IBG-1: Biotechnology at Research Centre Jülich. Her research objective is to develop and advance computational approaches to understand and infer biological processes by means of network models and data. To this end, Katharina is working at the intersection of applied mathematics, statistics and computational engineering science. Katharina’s team has a strong focus on 13C Metabolic Flux Analysis, maintaining the high-performance simulation suite 13CFLUX2 for the community, and information visualization (...Read more

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