The 2021 Separations Division awards winners have been announced - you can find the details in this file , also linked below. Congratulations to all of our awardees!
Laura is the Lead for Make Fashion Circular at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Laura was a key author of 'A New Textile's Economy: Redesigning Fashion's Future', setting out a vision for circular economy in the fashion industry.
Laura was responsible for the delivery of #WearNext, coordinating leading industry players in a collaborative campaign to raise awareness of clothing collection across the City of New York. Laura most recently worked with the Make Fashion Circular team to deliver the Jeans Redesign, an exciting step forwards for the industry, setting minimum criteria by...Read more
Prof. Tao is Chair Professor of Textile Technology, Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2002. Currently she holds the Vincent and Lily Woo Endowed Professorship in Textile Technology generously supported by the Vincent and Lily Woo Trust. She obtained a BEng in textile engineering from East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology with a 1st class prize; and a PhD in textile physics from University of New South Wales in Australia. Prof. Tao is former World President from 2007 to 2010, an elected Fellow of the Textile Institute, elected...Read more
From 2006 to 2018, Ed worked for Alvanon, Inc., the last seven as President. Under his leadership, Alvanon evolved from the premier provider of technical fit forms to the foremost authority on product development, sizing and fit strategy and execution. He managed its teams and has worked with leading retail clients all over the world; he remains an advisor to and promoter of Alvanon globally.
Prior to Alvanon, Ed was recruited to tech startup Intellifit Corporation as President/COO in 1999. There, he co-invented the revolutionary Intellifit Scanner, the first body scanner to...Read more
Katrin Ley is the Managing Director for Fashion for Good. Katrin has more than 20 years of relevant industry experience in the apparel and impact investing sector to her role. She joins Fashion for Good from Pymwymic, the ‘Put your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community’ of European wealth holders who invest for impact. Under her leadership as Managing Partner, Pymwymic launched the first-ever peer-to-peer impact holding company, welcoming mission-aligned families and individual investors as shareholders.
Prior to joining Pymwymic, Katrin was Managing Director within the adidas Group...Read more
Friday, November 5, 2021, 2:00pm EDT to Friday, December 31, 2021, 2:00pm EST
AIChE Local Section Vision Statement AIChE Local Sections serve as the lifelong professional home for AIChE members in all sectors of chemical engineering. Each AIChE member is affiliated with one or more Local Sections, and for many, the Local Section is the most personal and accessible point of...Read more
