Michael W. Deem works in the area of evolution, immunology, and materials. Deem has developed methods to quantify vaccine effectiveness and antigenic distance for influenza, methods to sculpt the immune system to mitigate immunodominance in dengue fever, a physical theory of the competition that allows HIV to escape from the immune system, the first exact solution of a quasispecies theory of evolution that accounts for cross-species genetic exchange, a hierarchical approach to protein molecular evolution, a `thermodynamic` formulation of evolution, and a theory for how biological...Read more

Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Borja is originally from Bogota, Colombia. Miguel completed his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at the National University of Colombia in 2009, year in which he also participated in an exchange program with the University of Oklahoma. In 2010 he joined the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering (CBME) at this institution as a PhD student. Currently he works with the catalytic upgrading of biomass pyrolysis vapors, one of the areas under research in the CMBE Center for Biomass Refining.Read more

Mike Hong is Technical Director,North Asia, GE Water & Process Technologies. He has worked in the water & process treatment industry for 25 years. Mr. Hong received his B. S. degree in Industrial Chemistry from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, in 1980. He is a permanent member of Chinese Chemistry Society in Taiwan.Read more

As Managing Director of PTI Global Solutions, Mike supports companies in sectors such as sustainable technology, alternative food, renewable fuels, and industrial bioprocessing to help accelerate commercialization, reduce risk, and maximize value.  Read more

Mike Schmidt is Principal of Bluefield Process Safety, providing safety life cycle consulting to the chemical process industries. Formerly an SIS consultant at Emerson, Mike began his career in the CPI in 1977 with Union Carbide. Profoundly impacted by the 1984 tragedy in Bhopal, Mike has been working on process safety ever since. His expertise includes facilitating HazOps and other forms of Process Hazard Analysis, Layer of Protection Analysis, working with organization to establish Risk Tolerance Criteria, development of Safety Requirements Specifications for Burner Management Systems...Read more

Mirco Ermini is Lead Design Engineer of LNG compressor for GE Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy, where he takes care of aerodynamic, mechanical and rotordynamic design of refrigeration centrifugal and axial compressor. He has designed two world-scale LNG plant and had travelled to several sites for plant commissioning, start up and troubleshooting. Mr Ermini has been with GE O&G since 2006. He has a B.S. and M.S. degree (Mechanical Engineering, 2000) and a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering (2005) from the university of Florence. He has coauthored several publications in the area of...Read more

Mr. Conkle is responsible for the management of energy conversion, process engineering, and pollution prevention research at the Battelle Memorial Institute. He has over 30 years experience at the bench, pilot, and full-scale operating gasification, hydrocracking, chemical synthesis, and polymer processing units. Mr. Conkle obtained a MS degree in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Ohio. He is the author of over 60 publications and holds six U. S. Patents.Read more

Mr. Ferguson serves as Chairman of the American Chemistry Council Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable and as a Trustee of the United States Council for International Business. He became Executive Chairman of the Board of Eastman Chemical Company on May 7, 2009. Mr. Ferguson was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eastman Chemical Company January 1, 2002 - May 7, 2009. Joining Eastman in 1977, he was named Vice President, Industry and Federal Affairs in 1994, became Managing Director, Greater China in 1997, was named President, Eastman Chemical Asia...Read more

Mr. Flores is a Research Scientist in the Chemical Engineering Department at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Tx. He has worked at Southwest Research Institute since 2002 where he created and implemented experimental techniques to support chemical processes development. Mr. Flores now leads the chemical investigations team where he manages the development and operation of chemical processes for advanced fuel and energy technologies at lab-and-demonstration scale. In the last 3 years, one project with a small business has been developing a new Carbon Capture and Sequestration...Read more

Mr. Gabriel Loh received his Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) from The University of Queensland, Australia in 2006 and is currently pursuing a Master of Science (Chemical Engineering) in The National University of Singapore. In 2007, he joined the Process Science and Modelling research programme at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), one of the several research institutes of The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore as a Research Officer. Gabriel is a member of the Kilo-Lab and the INtegrated COntinuous Multi-purpose...Read more