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Instructor-Led Virtual Classes

As an integral part of the AIChE Academy community, we understand that the ongoing COVID-19 situation has impacted plans for most everyone around the world. As we continue to monitor the situation, we want to continue to help advance the community by offering our on-site instructor-led classes...

Smooth the Transition to the Home Office

March 26, 2020
March 31, 2020

After 20 years of working from home, I've noticed that faulty communication is often the culprit when something goes wrong. Reassess your communication strengths and weaknesses to make working from home easier.   

Owen G Jones

Dr. Owen Griffith Jones is an Associate Professor of Food Science at Purdue University and a contributing member of the Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research (WCCR).  He received his B.Sc. degree in Food Science from the Ohio State University and his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts in the laboratory of Food Biopolymers and Colloids Research. Dr. Jones then spent two years at Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland, as a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of Food and Soft Materials. He joined Purdue University and the WCCR in 2011. Dr....Read more

Charles Damianides

Charles is the Vice President of Sustainability, Technology and Licensing for BP’s Chemicals business. The chemicals business is focused on the Aromatics and Acetyls value chains with manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and Asia. The business has technology centers located in Hull, UK, Naperville, USA and Zhuhai, China. 

Charles holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in the USA. 

Charles joined BP in 1987 as a Research Engineer working in...Read more

March 2020 Pipeline

March 26, 2020

Anne Rea

Anne W. Rea is a Senior Science Advisor in the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development.  Prior to this she was the Associate National Program Director for Nutrients and Harmful Algal Blooms in the US EPA’s Safe and Sustainable Water Resources Research Program. She leads the integration of cross-cutting research related to nitrogen and associated co-pollutants within the US EPA and with other federal, state, and NGO partners.  Dr. Rea also...Read more

Jessica Vieira

Jess Vieira leads the Sustainability function at Apeel Sciences, where she is responsible for development and execution of the company’s Sustainability Strategy as it pertains to environmental and social responsibility. A core competency of Sustainability at Apeel involves using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to make informed decisions around product development and business strategy that aim to maximize the environmental benefits of Apeel’s technology in the market.

Prior to Apeel Sciences, Jess worked in the Environmental Technologies groups at both Apple Inc. and The Dow Chemical...Read more

Laurna Kaatz

Laurna Kaatz directs Denver Water’s climate science, policy, and adaptation program. Her primary responsibility is to lead climate investigations and implement findings to inform planning, policy, and research. Laurna’s work incorporates many areas of water resource planning, including climate and drought planning, operational and water rights analysis, and long range integrated resource planning. As the most recent chair of the Water Utility Climate Alliance and lead practitioner of the Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty Society, Laurna is...Read more

Binita Bhattacharjee

Binita has been with Amyris for over 5 years, and currently leads the Downstream Process Development team that develops and scales process trains to recover and purify fermentation-derived renewables for Amyris’s Health & Wellness, Flavors & Fragrances, and Clean Beauty product lines.  Prior to Amyris, Binita was with BP Americas. There she worked on olefins, aromatics, bioethanol, biodiesel and gasification applications, focusing on process development and optimization, conceptual design, and techno-economic evaluations. Binita holds a BS degree from UC Berkeley, and MSCEP...Read more

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