John B. Vorderbrueggen, PE is the Investigations Supervisor for the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. He has 35 years experience in design, process safety, regulatory programs, maintenance management, human factors, and workforce training. He has extensive experience in incident investigations, PSM, and fitness-for-service engineering analyses. Industries include chemical, refining, pharmaceutical, and nuclear and fossil power. He served on the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Technical Advisory Committee. He holds a BSME from California Polytechnic State University and is a registered...Read more

John Hewson is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Engineering Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories. There he heads the physics model development for the reacting flow modeling and multiphase flow modeling capabilities. Prior to joining the Engineering Sciences Center, John spent time at Sandia's Combustion Research Facility and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Californnia San Diego and his B. S. from the University of California, Berkeley.Read more

Upon retirement as President of Shell Oil Company in 2008, Mr. Hofmeister founded and heads the not-for-profit membership association, Citizens for Affordable Energy.  This public policy firm promotes sound U.S. energy security solutions for the nation, including a range of affordable energy supplies, efficiency improvements, essential infrastructure, sustainable environmental policies and public education on energy issues.

A business leader who has participated in the inner workings of multiple industries for over 45 years, Hofmeister also has held executive...Read more

John Miller works for the Rosemount Measurement Division of Emerson Process Management, in the area of advanced pressure diagnostics applications. His career at Emerson has involved working in a wide array of diagnostics ranging from field device, to control loop, to unit and system level diagnostics. John received his BS in mechanical engineering and MS in electrical engineering, both from the University of Minnesota. He has 6 issued US patents, and numerous other pending applications. John resides in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with his wife and four children.Read more

Jonathan Currie received his BE (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2009 from AUT University in New Zealand. Now, he is pursuing a PhD in real-time optimisation of steam utility systems, with research focus on optimisation strategies and predictive control. Prior to obtaining his degree, he won the New Zealand mechatronics competition and subsequently represented New Zealand at the World Skills mechatronics competition in Finland, 2005.Read more

Jonathan S. Dordick received his B.A. degree in Biochemistry and Chemistry from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has held chemical engineering faculty appointments at the University of Iowa (1987-1998), where he also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1998-present) where he is the Howard P. Isermann Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Professor of Biology. In 2008 he took over as Director of Rensselaer’s Center...Read more

Jonathan T. Kwan is project manager,EOR and staff reservoir engineer at Kinder Morgan CO2 Company. He worked in technical and management capacities for Shell, Anadarko, and Unocal with 25+ years of upstream research, operation, marketing, and international business development experiences. He also taught at Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, University of Oklahoma and Mining University of Leoben in Austria. His undergraduate degree was from UC Berkeley and M.S. & Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from University of Southern California.Read more

Jose Menezes has a Chemical Engineering degree (1985) and a Masters in Catalysis degree (1988) from the Technical University of Lisbon (TUL) and a PhD in Biochemical Engineering (1996) and a Post-Doc in advanced monitoring of bioprocesses (1999) both taken in industry. He holds an MBA from ISCTE-INDEG Business School (2005). He is co-founder coordinator of the Masters Program in Pharmaceutical Engineering jointly offered by the Faculty of Pharmacy (Lisbon University) and TUL, started in October 2007. From March 2009, Dr Menezes became also invited Asscoiated Professor of Lisbon University’...Read more

Josebus van Zyl graduated from Stellenbosch University, South Africa after completing the degree of Bachelors in Engineering (BEng) in 2004. Here became interested in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) after investigating the air flow conditions over a South African Navy Corvette superstructure. He furthered his studies at Stellenbosch and obtained the degree of Master of Science in Engineering (MScEng) in 2006 for the numerical investigation of the thermo-flow conditions through an motor vehicle underhood. He is currently completing his PhD degree for the development of a set...Read more

Josephine A. Elia is a graduate student in the Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory, Princeton University, advised by Prof. Christodoulos Floudas. Her research interests include design, optimization, and planning of hybrid energy systems.Read more