January 2022

Stephanie Heffernan, P.Eng., obtained her B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from McMaster Univ. in Hamilton, ON. After graduation, Heffernan pursued opportunities in manufacturing, supply chain, innovation, and sales. As a senior applications engineer with IPEX USA, LLC, Heffernan specializes in educating and providing technical support for customers, engineers, and other piping industry professionals with specifying, installing, and maintaining thermoplastic piping systems.Read more

The research in Al-Hashimi's group focuses on the synthesis of organic polymers in particular the "design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials" for a range of optoelectronic applications, including field effect transistors, photovoltaic devices, light emitting diodes and sensors. This has made enormous scientific and commercial progress over the last 10 years, mainly driven by the potential of applications such as light-emitting diodes (OLEDS) for display and large area lighting, field effect transistors (OFETs) for flexible backplanes and e-paper and solar cells (OPV) for...Read more

Dr. Veronica Bermudez Benito is Senior Research Director at the Energy Center at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) where she leads the efforts in research, technology development, and innovation for the Energy Transition department. Dr. Benito has a PhD in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and holds a number of international awards for her research activity. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy and acts as an independent expert for a number of international funding agencies such as the European...Read more