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Chris Fay

Chris Fay is a Registered Environmental Assessment Practitioner (REAP) and Technical Director at Arup with over 20 years of experience in environmental planning and impact assessment. He has led complex infrastructure and energy projects across Australia, Southeast Asia, and North America, with a focus on regulatory approvals, ESG compliance, and stakeholder engagement.

Chris is currently supporting the Equatic project in Canada—an innovative ocean-based carbon dioxide removal initiative—where he is advising on environmental permitting and Indigenous consultation strategy. His work...Read more

Real-time Raman Analysis of Low Levels of an Analyte in a Continuous Flow Process

Learn how Bruker's Raman Analyzers with HTVS technology enable real-time, high performance monitoring of industrial flow chemistry, including bioprocesses and protein purification applications. Achieve precise, rapid data collection with detection limits below 15 ppm.

Nancy Norton

Nancy is the Head of Risk and Safety at Ark Energy, where she is leading and developing the risk and safety framework for the company’s renewable energy and hydrogen projects. A chemical engineer with 20 years experience spanning operations management, safety regulation, quality, and change management.

Prior to joining Ark Energy, she was Operations Manager at the BOC Townsville site and later served as the lead for hydrogen safety at the Queensland Gas Safety Regulator (RSHQ). During her time at RSHQ, she spearheaded the development of Queensland’s Hydrogen Safety Code of Practice—...Read more

Lisa Hein

Lisa Hein is a chartered chemical engineer and TÜV certified functional safety engineer with over 25 years of industry experience in both operating companies and consulting. She has extensive experience as a site-based engineer in the Cooper Basin, where she encountered several major incidents early in her career in the oil and gas industry. These experiences sparked her specialist interest in process safety in both design and operations.

Over the past eight years at GPA Engineering, Lisa has leveraged her expertise on numerous projects in the future fuels industry and in the design...Read more

Featured Session: Chemical Engineering Education - Experiential Learning

Plan to attend this special session, organized by the 2025 Annual Meeting Program Chairs.

Featured Session: Development and Commercialization of GLP-1 peptide, tirzepatide

Plan to attend this special session, organized by the 2025 Annual Meeting Program Chairs.

Richard Hughes

Richard G. Hughes is a professional-in-residence and the Campanile Charities Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University’s Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering. He earned a BS in petroleum engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and held various production, reservoir, and information technology positions with Tenneco Oil, Dwights Energy Data, and Amerada Hess. He then obtained his MS and PhD in petroleum engineering from Stanford University before joining the University of Oklahoma...Read more

Clint Botard

Clint Botard is a registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical, Texas) with over 25 years of experience leading and supporting various engineering, manufacturing, quality control, and business operations in the oil, gas, chemical, and manufacturing industries.  He specializes in asset integrity management, risk management, independent design verification, incident investigation, and root cause analysis.  He has helped numerous industry clients improve their asset integrity management programs, with a focus on preserving the right to operate and optimizing asset performance....Read more

Ranessa Davis

Ranessa Davis is a practicing Chemical Engineer with over 20 years of experience leading operational excellence initiatives in the food/beverage, pharmaceutical, oil/gas, renewable energy, and specialty chemical industries. She is most notably recognized for her expertise in process engineering, process safety management, engineering management, project management, maintenance management and technical writing.  As a practitioner in Process Safety Management (PSM), her strong technical background and “fit for purpose” regulatory compliance proficiencies qualify her to identify...Read more

Urs Ferber

Urs is a German and European Patent attorney at Mewburn Ellis LLP, one or Europe’s largest IP firms. He works in Mewburn’s Munich office. Urs has master’s degree in physics from the University of Ulm with focus on biophysics. He then completed his PhD at University College Dublin at the Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research.

At Mewburn Ellis LLP, Urs has worked with several start-up companies. He has gained experience designing an IP strategy that contributes to the commercial success of the startups as well as being attractive to inventors. Urs also...Read more

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