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Wiliam Sarni

Will is an internationally recognized thought leader on water strategy and innovation. He has been a sustainability and water strategy advisor to multinationals, water technology companies and NGOs for his entire career. Will works with multinationals on corporate water strategies, water technology innovation and water market entry strategies. His work with water technology companies is as a strategy advisor and investor.

Prior to Water Foundry Will was a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting and led the company’s water strategy practice. He was the founder and CEO of...Read more

Joseph Rodriguez

Dr. Rodriguez graduated from MIT in 2001 and worked for six years performing bioinformatics analysis including human genome assembly. In 2007, he began work under the direction of Michael Rosbash, Ph.D., at Brandeis University, studying RNA processing and circadian gene expression dynamics. After receiving his doctorate in 2012, Dr. Rodriguez joined the laboratory of Daniel Larson, Ph.D., at the National Cancer Institute and studied transcriptional regulation of estrogen responsive genes in single human cells. He joined the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in 2018 and...Read more

Johannes G. Khinast

Prof.  Johannes G. Khinast (male, 1964) is the head of the Institute for Process and Particle Engineering (http://ippt.tugraz.at/) at the Graz University of Technology and the scientific director of the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (http://www.rcpe.at/). He received his Ph.D. in the area of particle technology in 1995 from the Graz University of Technology in 1995. He was then a post doctoral fellow at the University of Houston with Prof. Dan Luss. In 1998 Prof. Khinast joined Rutgers University (New...Read more

Zoltan K Nagy

Zoltan K Nagy is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, USA and holds a research professor position at Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on pharmaceutical systems engineering, advanced process control, crystallization modeling and control approaches and advanced control of particulate systems, with application to pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, food and energetic materials. He is an international expert in process intensification and advanced control application in integrated batch and continuous...Read more

Melissa M. Bilec

Dr. Melissa Bilec is an associate professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; she is the Deputy Director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.  She is also the Roberta A. Luxbacher Faculty Fellow, and she serves as the Pitt STRIVE Director of Faculty Community Building and Engagement for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Dr. Bilec’s research focuses on the sustainable built environment.  She explores system-level environmental performance of buildings, while developing a deeper understanding of...Read more

Registration Information

Registration is closed. Meeting Dates and Venue August 30 - September 3, 2020 | Westin Grand Munich, Munich, Germany Registration Fees Prices quoted are in U.S. Dollars (Includes the Proceedings USB) Early postmarked thru July 20 Standard postmarked thru August 28 Onsite Member $755 $810 $850 Non-...

Peruvian Chemical Engineering Week - Appreciation Letter

This is a letter of thanks to Williams J. Ramos, for his participation as a speaker in the Peruvian Chemical Engineering Week 2020. Place: National...

Damon Hartley

Damon Hartley is the lead of the biomass analysis team at the Idaho National Laboratory, where he and his team provide analysis to inform the economics and sustainability of technological developments along the biomass feedstock supply chain and provide guidance for future research and development needs to enable the development of a bioeconomy.  Damon’s expertise is in modeling the logistics systems and he primarily focuses on the optimization of transportation networks, simulation of physical systems and techno-economic analysis.  Damon received his PhD, from West Virginia...Read more

Newsha Ajami

Newsha K. Ajami, is the director of Urban Water Policy with Stanford University’s Water in the West program. A leading expert in sustainable water resource management, smart cities, and the water-energy-food nexus, she uses data science principles to study the human and policy dimensions of urban water and hydrologic systems. Her research throughout the years has been interdisciplinary and impact focused.

Dr. Ajami is a two-term gubernatorial appointee to the Bay Area Regional Water Quality Control Board. She is a member of National Academies Board on Water Science...Read more

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