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Greeshma Gadikota

Dr. Greeshma Gadikota is an Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Gadikota directs the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group. Prior to Cornell, she served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, held postdoctoral research associate appointments at Princeton University and Columbia University, and a research associate appointment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her PhD in Chemical Engineering and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering and...Read more

Christine Hrenya

Professor Christine Hrenya is no stranger to the PTF. She obtained her BS in chemical engineering at The Ohio State University and Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University with Professor Jennifer Sinclair Curtis. Professor Hrenya's work focuses on bridging micro-level physics and macro-level behavior in fluidization bridging cohesive flow, heat transfer, flow instabilities, and polydispersity. Her research has resulted in over 110 articles, 9 postdocs, and 16 Ph.D. students. Professor Hrenya has contributed greatly in terms of service, including Chairing the 2016 AIChE Annual meeting. She is...Read more

Madhava Syamlal

Dr. Madhava Syamlal is a Senior Fellow for Computational Engineering at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, West Virginia. He received his BS degree in chemical engineering from India Institute of Technology (BHU) and Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology. He worked in industry, including a position at Fluent, before joining NETL. For those in particle technology who perform computational studies, his work as the founding architect of MFIX is extremely well known. MFIX is an open source platform actively being used by researchers in over 70 countries. Dr. Syamlal...Read more

Clive Davies

Professor Davies has had a diverse career across industry and academia over a wide spectrum of engineering projects in fluidization and particle technology. With BSc and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College of Science and Technology, he then performed postdoctoral research at University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He worked several years in industry working in pneumatic systems and various measurement devices. In 2003 he joined Massey University been elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Fellow of the AIChE. ...Read more

Paul Mwasame

Dr. Paul Mwasame received Ph.D. from University of Delaware. He is receiving the 2020 George Klinzing Best Ph.D. Award for his outstanding contributions to the investigation and development of microstructure-based constitutive models of fundamental rheological phenomena in particulate suspensions. ...Read more

Jeffrey M. Sanders

Jeffrey M. Sanders received his B.S. in applied physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and then his Ph.D. in biophysics and molecular pharmacology from Thomas Jefferson Medical College. Since joining Schrodinger in 2013, Jeff has served several roles in both the scientific and technical aspects of computational chemistry software. He is currently a principal scientist in the materials science division focusing on physics-based simulations in consumer packaged goods applications.Read more

Dianne Newman

Dr. Newman is the Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and leads the Ecology & Biosphere Engineering Initiative of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech. She is an American Academy of Microbiology fellow, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.  Dr. Newman received her BA at Stanford University, earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering at MIT and trained as a postdoc at Harvard Medical School.  She joined the Caltech faculty in 2000 as the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Environmental...Read more

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