Vladimiros Nikolakis (Chemical Engineer, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering University of Massachussetts Amherst 2001) is a Principal Researcher at FORTH/ICEHT. His research interests include preparation and characterization of inorganic membranes, membrane separations, modelling of transport and adsorption in microporous materials, zeolite crystallization mechanisms, and encapsulation of Ionic Liquids in porous media having as goal the development of composite High Temperature PEMs comprised from polymers, zeolites and ionic liquids. He has participated in more than 10 R&D projects, funded by...Read more

Wenfang Liu received her Ph.D in Materials Science from Tsinghua University in China in January 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Jian Yu. She was a postdoctoral associate in the group of Prof. Ping Wang during 2005-2006 at National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Processing Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She holds B.E. and M.S. degrees in polymer from Tianjin University of Science and Technology in China. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Control, School of Chemical Engineering and Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)...Read more

Will Medlin obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering at the University of Delaware in 2001 with Mark A. Barteau. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories from 2001 until 2003, when he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado (CU). He is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at CU. In 2010-2011 he has been a Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zurich. He is the co-founder and CU Site Director for the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2), and is a founding fellow of the joint CU/NREL Renewable and Sustainable Energy...Read more

Will Tisdale joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT in 2012, where he is the Charles & Hilda Roddey Career Development Associate Professor. His research program is focused on the development of nanoscale semiconductor materials for use in next-generation energy technologies.Read more

William E. Bentley is the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering and founding Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering. He is also appointed in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Center for Biosystems Research of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.Read more

With a professional background in large-scale database software design and a graduate degree in Applied Statistics from the University of California, Joe Stough is the visionary and strategist behind the IMPACT ERM® Suite. Stough originally designed IMPACT to not only consolidate data from a broad array of different “risk reduction” processes but also to do so in a manner which practically enables the application of advanced statistical methods. With early adoption in the mid 1990’s in the Energy Industry for many Safety-related business practices, the use of the IMPACT solution now spans...Read more

Xinshu Zhuang, PhD., Associate professor, Research Director of Bio-chemical Conversion Lab, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is major in the mechanism and process research on cellulosic ethanol. She published more than 60 papers in which 20 are accepted by SCI or EI, and authorized 4 patents.Read more

Yan Zhang was born in China in 1986. She received her Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2008. After that, she continues her study as a graduate student in department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, US. Now she is at the fourth year of her PhD program. Yan Zhang’s research project is focusing on risk assessment for carbon dioxide geological squestration. Sequestered CO2 underground plume is simulated with an analytical model to predict the potential leakage from the failure of the sequestration system integrity. Risk analysis with Monte...Read more

Yogendra Shastri is a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is working on computational modeling and systems analysis of biomass feedstock production and provision. He is a chemical engineer by training and specializes in modeling, simulation and analysis of engineering systems. He has extensive multi-disciplinary research experience that includes contributions in bioenergy, environmental management, and theoretical and applied aspects of sustainability.Read more

Young-Hoon Song was born in Wonju, Korea, in 1959. He recieved the B.S. degree from Hanyang University, in 1983, the M.S. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, in 1994. Since 1994, he has been working in Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM). His research interests are plasma technologies for air pollution control (NOx, VOCs, PM), fuel reforming, flame stabilization.Read more