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Marcelo Cerqueira

Mr. Cerqueira is the current Executive Vice President of Manufacturing Brazil and Global Industrial Operations. Mr. Cerqueira has more than 30 years of experience in the chemical and petrochemical industry. He began his career in 1987 at Companhia Alcoolquímica Nacional and COPERBO (now Lanxess). In 1989, he went to Petroquímica Camaçari, where he worked in the areas of Production, Logistics, SSMA and Supplies. At Braskem, he has served as responsible for the Vinyl Unit, Industrial Director of Vinyls, Production Manager of the PVC...Read more

Rodrigo Silveira

Rodrigo Silveira is the Global Director of Health, Safety and Operational Risk at VALE in Brazil. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA both from the Baia Federal University in Brazil. Before VALE, he had been involved with DOW Chemical Operations in the area of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) for more than 22 years performing a variety of high-level managing activities in that Organization.Read more

Jason Hallett

Jason Hallett completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. He took up a Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainable Chemistry in 2006 in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College. He is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College. His current research interests involve the solvation behaviour of ionic liquids and the use of ionic liquids in biorefining, specifically the production of sustainable chemical feedstocks and lignocellulosic biofuels. He also works on multidisciplinary...Read more

WIC Travel Award & WIC Mentorship Excellence Award Deadlines Extended

There's still time to apply for both WIC Awards! Deadlines have been extended until August 31st . Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Travel Award - WIC supports travel for female graduate students, post-doctoral associates, early career individuals, and young professionals. Women in Chemical...

Natalie Artzi

Dr. Artzi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. She completed her postdoctoral studies at MIT focusing on studying tissue: biomaterial interactions and designing smart biomaterials for therapy and diagnosis applications. 

Dr. Artzi is the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including the inaugural Kabiller Rising Star Award in Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, the One Brave Idea award, Stepping Strong Innovator Award, Controlled...Read more

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