May 2021

Andrew J. Mountford, PhD, is the Senior Technical Lead (Training) at Heat Transfer Research, Inc. (HTRI). He provides technical support and training for HTRI. Previously, he held the position of Thermal Design Supervisor at Tecnicas Reunidas in Madrid, Spain, gaining valuable experience using HTRI methods and software. Mountford oversaw the development of several high-profile pressurized water reactor (PWR) and boiling water reactor (BWR) nuclear plant projects. He gained valuable experience in the thermohydraulic design of heat transfer equipment for the petrochemical and nitric acid/...Read more

Harold Reed is a process technical engineer at Sirius Technical Services (Theodore, AL). With more than 40 years of experience in the chemical industry, he has worked for Dow Corning, DuPont, Ciba-Geigy, Ciba, Novartis, Syngenta, and Sirius Technical Services, including roles in laboratories, pilot plants, and full-scale production processes. His areas of interest are process modeling, data analysis, process control, and experimental design. Reed has a bachelor’s degree from the Univ. of Kansas and a master’s degree from Lamar Univ., both in chemical engineering....Read more

Hrvoje Štefančić holds position of Vice-Rector for International Relations at the Catholic University of Croatia and he is a Full Professor of physics at the same university.  In the period from 2012 to 2020 he held the position of Vice-Rector for Science at the Catholic University of Croatia. He was a recipient of the 2006 From Research to Eneterprise award from Central European Initiative for the participation in commercial development of the software based on the Robin Hood method.  Dr. Štefančić holds a Ph.D. in theoretical...Read more