Tuomas Ouni, Phd, is Borealis Group’s expert on hydrocarbon technologies. He has more than 15 years of experience in process design, technology development, troubleshooting, R&D, and technology evaluation. Before joining Borealis Petrochemicals R&D, he worked in the fields of biofuel technology development and specialty chemicals. Ouni obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from Helsinki Univ. of Technology. He is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) working party on distillation and adsorption, and has authored several publications and conference papers related to chemical process engineering.