Julie White, P.E., CFSP, is a senior process engineer with Chevron Phillips Chemical, Kingwood Research & Technology. She was previously a principal consultant with JD White Engineering, LLC (Email: julie.white@jdwhiteengineering.com). She has more than 25 years of experience in petrochemical facilities and onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and production facilities. Her focus is on resilient operations and reliable engineered safeguards including functional safety and pressure relief systems. She holds a BS in...Read more

Justin J. Hill holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University and is a recent doctoral graduate from the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Florida. Dr. Hill’s graduate studies furthered the fundamental understanding of photoelectrochemical energy conversion in nanowire-based dye-sensitized solar cells through continuum-based modeling of the photoanode and template-based fabrication of core/shell nanowire devices. His primary research interests include low-cost fabrication alternatives, such as self-...Read more

Kees van Wingerden has 33 years of experience related to gas and dust explosions. His work comprises R&D, consultancy work, project and company management and sales. He has also been involved in numerous accident investigations. His present position is Technical director at GexCon in AS, Norway. Before that, he had positions in Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Holland and were always related to gas and dust explosion safety. He is also heavily involved in standardisation work, he is convenor of WG3 of CEN/TC305. He has written numerous articles on explosion safety.Read more

Ken is a Senior Risk/Reliability Engineer with ABS Consulting. Mr. Hanchey has over 30 years of industrial experience in operations and EH&S management with the Dow Chemical Company. Before, joining ABS Consulting as a Senior Process Safety Consultant, he was the Responsible Care® Leader for Dow’s Houston Operations. He has worked on developing and implementing EH&S programs for over 17 years and authored / co-authored several regulatory compliance manuals. He also participated in EH&S and PSM audits at a variety of facilities. His work areas at ABS Consulting include:...Read more

Kevin Turini is a Principle Process Specialist at Fluor with over 12 years of experience in the process industries. His main experience is in refinery technologies especially Hydroprocessing and Crude/Vacuum Unit design and revamp.Read more

Kuo-Lun (Allan) Tung, is now the Director of the R&D Centre for Membrane Technology (CMT) at Chung Yuan University in Taiwan with a specialty of R&D on membrane filtration applications for 20 years. He earned his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University in 1998. He joined Chung Yuan University in 1999, where he is currently a Full Professor in the department of chemical engineering. He is one of the founding members of the CMT since 2000 and was elected to serve as deputy director and director in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Allan is also active in the international affairs in...Read more

Kurt Brorson, Ph.D. is a staff scientist in CDER’s Division of Monoclonal Antibodies, Office of Biotech Products. Kurt Brorson received a B.A. in biology from the University of Chicago (Chicago IL) in 1984 and Ph.D. in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena CA) in 1990. After a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH, he joined FDA in 1992 as a staff fellow and was promoted to a staff scientist in 1999. In addition to review, inspection, training and policy activities, he conducts research on viral safety issues associated with biotechnology products. He...Read more

Kurt Frey is a postdoctoral appointee in the Process Simulation and Equipment Design group of Argonne National Laboratory's Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division. He received his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 and bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University in 2004.Read more

Kurt Rindfusz holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in chemical engineering and is a project manager for an environmental consulting firm, Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG). Mr. Rindfusz has worked in ERG’s Chantilly, VA, office for nineteen years where he and teams he manages have supported both private sector and government clients in the area of environmental consulting involving the manufacture, processing, and use of chemicals; specifically focusing in the areas of process engineering, pollution prevention, and pollutant fate and transport. Mr. Rindfusz has supported various EPA offices on...Read more

Lanbo Di is a doctoral student of Dalian University of Technology of China. He has been studying the doctor program for Doctor’s Degree on Plasma Physics in the School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology from March 2008 to Now. Currently, he is investigating atmospheric pressure cold plasma generated by dielectric barrier discharge for deposition of TiO2 thin films. His research interests include atmospheric pressure cold plasma for thin films deposition and material modification.Read more