Dr. Liangfang Zhang is Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor Professor and Chair of the Department of Nanoengineering at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Zhang received his B.E. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Steve Granick. He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT during 2006-2008. He joined the Department of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego as an Assistant...Read more
Emily Heaton received her PhD in Crop Sciences from the University of Illinois, then worked for the plant genetics company Ceres before joining Iowa State University in 2008. Her group aims to understand the growth and productivity of perennial C4 grasses, and how they can be managed to provide multiple ecosystem services, especially bioenergy.Read more
Dr Michele Fabris is a CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform Fellow and a core member of the Algal Biosystems and Biotechnology group in the Climate Change Cluster (C3) at University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
He holds a Ph.D. in Biotechnology and Biochemistry obtained at Ghent University, in the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (Belgium). He is specialised in molecular biology and biochemistry of microalgae, unicellular photosynthetic eukaryotes.
At C3, Dr Fabris contributed to establishing a platform for microalgal molecular...Read more
Prof. Dr. Sarah Ellen O’Connor is Director of the Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology (Jena, Germany). She obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001, and was an ACS Irving Sigal post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) from 2001-2003. From 2003-2011 she was Assistant and Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 2011-2019 she was a Project Leader and Professor in the Department of...Read more
This two day summit will gather engineers, scientist, and policymakers to focus on challenges and opportunities in renewable natural gas production and management.
If you are thinking of nominating someone for the 2020 Management Award, you now have more time to do so until April 30, 2020. We are extending the deadline for nominations for one more month in anticipation of receiving a few more highly qualified nominations.
Somnath Basu, P.E. is Vice President Global Process Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Headworks International in Houston, TX. He has over 30 years of experience in municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment system engineering and design. His prior affiliations include Shell Global Solutions, AECOM, CDM, Stone & Webster, and Raytheon (Badger) Engineers. His main interests are biological nutrient control processes and petroleum refinery and petrochemical wastewater treatment. Basu has a PhD in environment engineering from Northeastern Univ. and an MBA from the Univ...Read more
Ryan Amos, P.E., has been a process engineer with Hargrove Engineers + Constructors since 2012. His experience is mainly in the specialty chemicals sector, where he provides consulting expertise on FEL-2, FEL-3, and Detailed Design projects. He graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in chemical and biomolecular engineering. He also received an MS in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Mississippi.Read more
Zhongcheng Wang, PhD, is currently a lead fractionation specialist supporting ExxonMobil Downstream licensing projects for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. in Spring, TX (Phone: 832-625-7143; Email: zhongcheng.wang@exxonmobil.com). He has 30 years of experience in research, development, and engineering in fractionation and distillation, including as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Univ. of Alberta. Wang received his BS, MS, and PhD in chemical engineering from Tianjin UnivRead more
Michael Hergenrother, P.E., is the Distillation Global Technology Sponsor for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. in Spring, TX (Phone: 832-625-5454; Email: michael.l.hergenrother@exxonmobil.com). He has more than 30 years of process engineering experience in the area of plant operations and distillation. Hergenrother received a BS in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Notre Dame.Read more
