Chemical Engineering and Catalysis

Dr. Fenniri received all his degrees from the Université de Strasbourg, France. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA, he moved to Purdue University, IN, USA, where he initiated his independent academic career, and established the Purdue Laboratory for Chemical Nanotechnology (1999). In 2003, He joined the National Research Council as a founding member of the National Institute for Nanotechnology and as professor of chemistry and bioengineering at the University of Alberta (Canada, 2003-2013). Dr. Fenniri is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

Dr. Fenniri’s contributions appeared in over 220 publications, 20 patents and patent applications, and over 500 contributed national and international conference papers. Dr. Fenniri has also lectured extensively around the globe and has been an invited professor at several institutes and universities.

Dr. Shafigh Mehraeen, is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC). He received his B.Sc. in Structural Engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2008 and 2011, respectively. After two-year postdoctoral career at the Center for Organic Electronics in Georgia Institute of Technology, he received the MIT-SUTD postdoctoral fellowship. He worked in the Chemistry Department at MIT, where he received MIT Ascher Shapiro Award for excellence in educational prowess. He joined the Chemical Engineering Faculty at UIC as an assistant professor in 2016.

His research has focused on developing new methods and computational models to explore dynamics of directed self-assembly of sub-10 nm particles with single particle positioning resolution, predict the role of donor-acceptor interfacial properties on charge generation and energy losses in organic photovoltaics, and unravel the impact of materials disorder on charge transport properties of organic semiconductors. Dr. Mehraeen has authored 20 peer-reviewed articles, 1 patent, 1 book, and 1 book chapter in the areas of statistical thermodynamics, self-assembly, charge transport in light-harvesting systems and solar-photochemistry.

Viva Cundliffe has her expertise in pioneering remediation science and inventing remediation technology in the field of abandoned atmospheric emissions. Her point source management approach creates new pathways for improving health outcomes. She has built this model after years of experience in research, analysis, technology prototyping, modeling and testing both on the bench and in small pilot systems in her company. Her Contingency Plan work on the Ozone Layer and Global Warming is the subject of her MA and PhD.

Biofuels, Renewable Energy, Environmental Science

Dr. Conly Hansen has completed his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from The Ohio State University and joined as a Project Engineer for United States Army (discharged as Captain). At present, he is working as a Professor and Graduate Program Director at Center for Profitable Uses of Agricultural Byproducts, USA. He has published more than 56 research articles in reputed journals along with 6 book chapters; and presented more than 38 presentations with abstracts in national/international conference/symposia. He has around 14 significant honors on his name.

His research areas include Food Engineering, Bioreactors, Waste Treatment and Agriculture Engineering

Dr. Mohammed Kuddus has completed his PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology from SHIATS, Allahabad and joined Integral University, India in 2007. At present, he is working as an Associate Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry at University of Hail, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Kuddus’s main research area includes enzyme engineering and microbial biotechnology. He has published more than 50 research articles in reputed journals along with 7 book chapters; and presented more than 35 abstracts in national/international conference/symposia. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of various international reputed journals; and worked as organizing committee member for 6 international conferences/symposia. He has been awarded Young Scientist Projects from International Foundation for Science, Sweden, and Department of Science and Technology, India.

• Enzyme and Fermentation Technology • Biochemistry • Microbial Biotechnology

Dr Amarjit Bakshi has a Ph.D and also undergraduate degree both in Chemical Engineering from University of Surrey, Guildford.He has over 35 years experience in Engineering/ Consulting Management at senior level ( C level) in Process Engineering, Technology, Business Development, Licensing, Acquisitions, Alliances and Project Management and Engineering, Operations Management and Process Engineering. Provided proven leadership and vision with broader perspectives and able to manage multiple tasks and personnel on mega projects. For last 7 years he has been consulting in Upstream, midstream, transfer of oil/gas by pumping, petrochemicals with NOC’s, major oil and petrochemical corporations including management consulting organizations like BCG, Bain Consulting group and so many other organizations. He have been providing consulting in operations, training of facilities engineering, technology, Catalysts application and development/formulations, acquisitions, alliances, operations and corrosion in most of Oil and gas industry areas.

His research interests include Petroleum and Chemical Engineering,Process Engineering

M. R. Riazi received a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and is the author of 150 publications including 6 books in the areas of oil, gas, coal and biofuel characterization, production and processing. In addition he has over 100 conference presentations and about 100 invited lectures and workshops for the petroleum industry in more than 40 countries. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Penn State as well as Visiting Professor / Scholar in the Departments of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the following universities: Illinois/Chicago, Texas/Austin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim), McGill (Montreal), Waterloo, and some other universities in US, India and Middle East. He is a professor and former chairman of Chemical Engineering at Kuwait University and is the Editor-in-Chief of IJOGCT. As a result of his work, Dr. Riazi has been honored as the recipient the following awards: Diploma of Honor from United States National Petroleum Engineering Society for the Outstanding Contributions to the Petroleum Industry, KU Outstanding Research and Teaching Awards (received from former Amir of Kuwait) and was an elected Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is a registered and licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Applied Thermodynamics; Transport Processes; Characterization of Petroleum Fluids; Modelling of Petroleum Reservoirs; Fluid Property Estimation; Mathematical Modeling of Environmental, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Problems, Oil Spill Modeling, Renewable Energy Sources

Dr. Habil. Denis SPITZER received his PHD in physical chemistry in 1993 at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg. He is the founding and current Director of the NS3E Research Laboratory UMR 3208 ISL/CNRS/UNISTRA.He is the inventor of the SFE process. He is the author of more than 150 publications and scientific reports. He received in 2013 the award of strategic thinking given by the French Homeland Minister, and more recently, in 2015, the « Grand Prix Lazare Carnot » award of the French Academy of Science, for dual use research.

He conducts research in continuous nanoscrystallization processes of organic Nano materials such as model medicament and energetic materials.

Sean is Assis/Prof. at the Department of Chemical& Process Engineering of Canterbury University, NZ with experience and backgrounds in Bioengineering, mathematical modelling, energy and sustainability. He did both his B.S and M.S at the School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of Shiraz University, Iran and is a PhD graduate of The Laboratory for Sustainable Technology at Sydney University, Australia. For a couple of years his focus was mainly on improving the performance of key-naphtha reformers at oil refineries and later shifted his research and attention to nano-material development for sustainable energy applications. He has work experience in gas companies and strong devotion and passion to industries. Sean has been the author and co-author of several research papers and also peer reviewer for AIChE, International Journal of Energy Research, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering and others.

Currently his researches and interests include: (i) Material synthesis for sustainable energy conversion and storage (ii) Electrocatalysis (iii) Printing technology for electronic devices (iv) Mathematical modelling and optimization of chemical, petrochemical processes (v) Biofuel and biodiesel (vi) Bioengineering for protein extraction

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at Western Sydney University and Australian College of ACK, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

Bionanotech

Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head – Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, INDIA. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001. He is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. A group of research scholars is working under his guidance on the areas ranging from Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, and Industrial Liquid Waste Management to solid state fermentation. His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification and Genetic Engineering of high impact of Microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has more than 190 research publication in highly reputed national and international journals. He directs the Research program at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar. He has guided more than 100 Post Graduate students in various disciplines of Life Science. He is an active Editorial Board Member in 98 highly reputed Journal’s in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. He extends his expertise in various National as well as International Reputed Journal as Editor and Editorial Board Member like Open Access Book of Cloud Publication, Journal of Environment Pollution and Human Health. He was Founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) as well as Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) (Science and Education Publishing, USA). He is also serving as a reviewer in various journals of national and international repute. Recently, he has been awarded as a Young Biotechnologist Medal by Biotechnological Society of Nepal”.

Maulin P. Shah is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification and Genetic Engineering of high impact of Microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials.

Professor Anne S. Meyer is Professor and Head of Center for BioProcess Engineering within the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). She holds an MSc from the University of Copenhagen, and an MSc from the University of Reading, UK, plus a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark. She has had two postdoc stays in the USA at UC Davis. In 1998 she was promoted to Associate Professor of Biotechnology/Enzyme Technology at DTU. She assumed her current role as Full Professor of BioProcess Engineering in 2006 and was simultaneously appointed Head of Section BioProcess Engineering, Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, DTU. Her research is usually done in large collaboration programmes including industrial collaboration both internationally and nationally, and she has PI and leadership experience from several such projects. Distinctions and awards: 2005: Danisco Research Award. 2008: Grundfos Denmark Research Innovation Award. 2011: DTU PhD Supervisor of the Year. She has published more than 250 peers reviewed papers within the field of enzyme catalysis, enzyme kinetics, biomass conversion, biocatalytic carbohydrate synthesis, bioprocess technology and agroindustrial refining technology- she currently has more than 8000 ISI Thomson citations and a Web-of-Science h-index of 48.

Her research area focuses on design and development of bioprocesses with Biocatalysis Kinetics, Enzyme Technology, and Integrated Separation Technology as core research discipline areas at the Technical University of Denmark.

Sanjay Behura is a Visiting Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States.. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (2014-2016) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States. He received his Ph.D. (2014) from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India which includes a 9-month research exchange at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada under Commonwealth Scholarship and 1-week Ph.D. summer course on 'Challenges in 2D Materials' at the Technical University of Denmark under DST (Govt. of India) Young Scientist Travel Support. Dr. Behura has published several peer-reviewed research papers in high impact journals and filed U.S. patents in the area of 2D nanomaterials science and engineering. He is member of prestigious scientific societies including: American Physical Society, Electrochemical Society, and Materials Research Society.

He majors in materials physics with primary focus on integrating low-dimensional materials including graphene, boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides, nanotubes, and nanowires to leverage the potential device functionality including nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and energy harvesting devices.

Dr. Tieli (Tilly) Wang obtained her Ph.D. from State University of New York at Stony Brook where she worked on elucidating the mechanisms of protein-protein and protein-membrane interaction to help identify the small molecules or peptides that can inhibit the G-protein regulated signal transduction pathways. She then undertook a postdoctoral fellow at Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia in 1999. As a Beckman fellow, she joined Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope National Medical Center in 2001. After 4 years, she accepted a position at California State University Dominguez Hills as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associated professor in 2010 and full professor in 2015. She was elected as an associate director for the southwest comprehensive colleges of Sigma Xi Scientific Society of USA in 2014. Currently, she is the chair of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and working with department members and a group of students on therapeutic development against cancer resistance to the chemo and radiotherapy using crossdisciplinary approaches which combine proteomics with chemistry, biochemistry, biology and biophysics techniques. Her expertise in proteomics and experimental therapeutics has been utilized for undergraduate and graduate training and campus resources. Through inter-disciplinary approaches, she has mentored students majoring in chemistry, biology and clinical chemistry. Students she mentored have given award winning presentations in the past years at the local and regional meetings.

During the past decades, the focus of my research is to study the mechanism by which cancer cells become resistant to the chemotherapy in order to develop novel strategies to advance cancer treatment. The major focus of my current research is to study the post-translational modification of the proteins especially histone associated proteins and their potential roles in rendering cancer cells resistant to the therapeutic treatments. Interference with this alteration could result in the identification of an alternative chemo-sensitizing factors and guidance to the rational treatment regimens to modulate chemoresistance. The project promises to make a contribution to the development of novel anticancer agents and to the graduate and undergraduate student research training.

Dr. Shiv Kant Shukla has done MSc and PhD (Biotechnology) with specialization in plant biotechnology.At present Dr. Shukla is heading the NCS-TCP Management Cell of DBT, GoI, Indo-Afirca Project on Plant Tissue Culture and working for Biotech Parks of many State governments. He has been instrumental in setting up National Certification System for Tissue Culture Plants (NCS-TCP) in the country.

He has more than 17 years of diversified experience covering research, production of tissue culture plants, field extension, quality management, biotech parks, technology transfer, administration and management of science projects. Dr. Shukla has more than 50 publications, chaired/delivered 12 invited speeches. He has organized 10 Entrepreneurship development programme (EDP) and 18 conferences.

“Jules Thibault obtained his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1973 and his PhD from McMaster in 1978. He then spent 7 years in the Canadian Armed Forces prior joining Laval university in 1984. In 2000, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Ottawa.

His research interest spans from biotechnology to process control and optimization.”

Agustin Fernando NAVARRO completed his engineering in 1975 from National University of La Plata. Argentine.Worked as a Research Professor in grade and posgraduate Air Pollution and Treatment of Gaseous Effluents Water Pollution and Wastewater Treatment and Faculty of Engineering. National University of La Plata. Since 2009.Did More than 15 posgraduate courses, in addition to courses on environmental themes related to the Specialization.

50 papers published in journals and proceedings of national and international conferences related to process analysis and environment.worked as aGeneral Director of ARFITEC Project in Green Chemistry with France. Member of the research Project on wastewater quality.

. Professor Foster has co-authored 320 scholarly articles and is a named inventor on 5 granted patents in the drug delivery IP landscape. Professor Foster has supervised and mentored 23 Early Career researchers, 34 PhD students, 15 Masters students and approximately 100 Honours research students. Professor Foster has also been involved at senior management level in the pharmaceutical industry, in both public and private sectors. His creativity and courage in identifying and pursuing new frontiers in drug delivery systems, and translating these concepts into commercialization have been clearly demonstrated.

Professor Foster has made a significant contribution to his research field over a sustained period of time. The impact and contribution of Professor Foster’s work have been recognised with several honours and awards. In 2014, he was accorded the Honour of being elected a Fellow of the European Academy for Science and the Arts – he is one of only 3 Australians who are currently Fellows of this prestigious Academy. In 2010, the Central Organisation Committee of the People’s Republic of China bestowed on Professor Foster the honour of a National Professorship under the auspices of the Qian Ren 1000 Talents programme. At the time of the award he was one of only 4 non-National Chinese to be so recognised.

Dr. Prabir Patra is a Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, USA. He holds joint appointment as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prabir has a PhD in Materials Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, India. Prabir did his postdoctoral work at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Rice University on biomaterials and nanotechnology respectively. The focus of his research is to understand the fundamentals of biophysical science processes at a nano-scale and apply their underlying principles to develop advanced materials through structure, property and function relationships for novel nanotechnology driven biomedical engineering applications

Continued research effort on polymer nanomaterials that emphasize creativity and collaboration in developing new understanding on fundamentals and technology of multifunctional polymer nanocomposite (biosensors, immunoassay based nanofibrous membranes, self assembled structure, morphologically evolved interface) materials and biologically inspired nanomaterials, tissue engineering using extensive experience in polymer formulations, synthesis and structure-property relations.

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Nandakumar holds Cain Chair at LSU. Previously he was the GASCO Chair at The Petroleum Institute, and was with University of Alberta for 25 years. He received his BTech from Madras University (1973), MSc from U Saskatchewan (1975) and PhD from Princeton University (1979). He has received the Alexander von Humnboldt research fellowship (1989-90) and the Albright & Wilson Americas Award from CSCHE (1991). He was elected Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (1991), of the Engineering Institute of Canada (2006) and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2007). He received, from the University of Alberta, the McCalla Professorship (1992), the Killam Annual professorship (2001) for excellence in research and the Rutherford Award (2001) for excellence in teaching. He also received the Excellence in Education award (2002) from APEGGA. He was Editor-in-Chief of CJChE during 2005-2009. Dr. Nandakumar received the premier award of the CSChE, called the R.S. Jane Memorial Award in 2008.

Discrete Particle Modelling,CFD modelling of industrial Processes,Modeling of polymer processing operations

Dr. Gavin M. Walker has received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast in 1995. Currently, he is working as a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s where he is Advisor of Studies for Chemical Engineering. He is serving as an editorial member of Chem. Eng. Journal. He has authored over 175 research articles in international journals and conferences and has a personal research group of 10 PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. He was elected Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and has recently been awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for his contribution Chemical Engineering research.

Particle Technology and Pharmaceutical Processing; Tissue Engineering and Medical Polymers; Environmental Technology and Adsorption Modelling.

Dr Amarjit Bakshi has a Ph.D and also undergraduate degree both in Chemical Engineering from University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.Over 30 years experience in Engineering/ Consulting Management at senior level in Process Engineering, Technology, Business Development, Licensing, Acquisitions, Alliances and Project Management and Engineering, Operations Management and Process Engineering. Provided proven leadership and vision with broader perspectives and able to manage multiple tasks and personnel on mega projects. For last 7 years I have been consulting in Upstream, midstream, transfer of oil/gas by pumping, petrochemicals with NOC’s, major oil and petrochemical corporations including management consulting organizations like BCG, Bain Consulting group and so many other organizations. I have been providing consulting in operations, training of facilities engineering, technology, Catalysts, acquisitions, alliances, operations and corrosion in most of Oil and gas industry areas.

Petroleum and Chemical Engineering,Process Engineering

Dragomir Yankov is the Director of Institute of Chemical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He earned his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry (Chemical Cybernetics) from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria in 1984. Dragomir Yankov has worked at IChE throughout whole his professional career. He joined the Institute as Research Fellow in 1984, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1998 and is currently Professor in Chemical Engineering, since 2011. During the years he visited as postdoctoral fellow Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada; Lund University, Sweden; ENCIACET, Toulouse, France and Imperial College, London, UK. He is a member of the editorial board of the Bulgarian Chemical Communications and Journal of Advanced Chemical Engineering.

Kinetics and modelling of enzyme processes with free and immobilised enzymes and cells, Separation processes in biotechnology -application of aqueous two phase systems for separation and purification of bioproducts; separation of products from fermentation broth by extraction, membrane methods and supercritical extraction, antibiotics production and separation.

Dr. M. R. Riazi is currently a professor and the chairman of chemical engineering at Kuwait University. He received his MSc and PhD degrees from Pennsylvania State University where he served as an assistant professor of chemical engineering. He was also a visiting scholar/faculty in both Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Departments at Illinois (Chicago), Texas (Austin), McGill (Montreal), Waterloo (Canada), Wright State (Ohio), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim), and various universities in the Middle East. He has about 140 publications including 5 books and a solutions manual as well as about 100 conference presentations mainly in the fields of petroleum and chemical technology. His new book titled “Exploration and Production of Petroleum and Natural Gases” will be published in the United States later this year. He has been invited speaker and consultant to more than 50 major oil companies and research centers worldwide and has conducted about 70 workshops and short courses in more than 40 different countries. He is the founding editor and editor in chief of IJOGCT (London, UK) and an editor of Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering (Elsevier). He has been awarded distinguished researcher and teaching awards at several universities including an award from the former Amir of Kuwait. He also received a Diploma of Honor from National (American) Petroleum Engineering Society and is a Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Further information is available on his homepage: www.RiaziM.com

Chemical Engineering

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M.M. Nasef has completed his PhD and postdoctoral studies from Chemical Engineering department, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is a professor at Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology and head of advanced materials group at Centre for Hydrogen Energy, Institute of Future Energy, UTM. He has published more than 100 research papers in reputed journals and has been working on the developments of functional materials for energy and environmental applications with emphasis on membrane separation.

Environmental Chemical engineering

Ida Idayu Muhamad is a Professor at the Department of Bioprocess Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and a Fellow of Institute of Food Science and Technology, United Kingdom. Currently she is one of the appointed Scientific Advisors also Head of Biomaterial Cluster for the IJN-UTM Cardiovascular Engineering Centre, for research collaboration between Institut Jantung Negara and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Prior to this present position, she headed the Bioprocess Engineering Department (2010-2013) and management committee of Centre of Fiqh (2011-2013), Science and Technology (CFiRST). She has won numerous awards related to her research projects, both at the international and national levels also the owner of 28 patents filed and 4 granted. Her work has opened up new areas in the production of new compounds and biomaterials through green processes. Those naturally functional, environmentally friendly processes and products are the way forward towards sustainable future.

Food and biomaterial process engineering, particle technology, active-smart packaging and food safety, nutraceuticals and drug delivery system

Dr. Gregory Yablonsky is an Associate Professor of the Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at the Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri, USA), Fellow of Academy of Sciences in St. Louis. Yablonsky’s research expertise includes heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics of complex chemical reactions, mathematical modeling of chemical reactors and technological processes, history and methodology of science. Gregory Yablonsky is a world recognized expert in the area of chemical kinetics and chemical engineering, in catalytic technology particularly, which is one of main driving forces of sustainable development. He has authored five monographs on catalysis and chemical kinetics and more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. In 2013 Yablonsky got a “Lifetime Achievement Award” in recognition of outstanding contributions to the research field of chemical kinetics”. In 2014, Yablonsky received the Sarton’s Award on history of chemical kinetics Yablonsky was granted by the honorary doctor degree from the University of Ghent (Belgium). Dr. Guy Marin, of Belgium, who presented Dr. Yablonsky during the ceremony, called Yablonsky a “scientific catalyst” and “an inexhaustible source of scientific curiosity, always pushing colleagues towards new challenges and insights.”

His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics of complex chemical reactions mathematical modeling of chemical reactors and technological processes, history and methodology of science.

Dr. Adango Miadonye, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry in the School of Science & Technology has received global recognition in the field of petroleum engineering and petroleum chemistry. His impressive publication record includes 80 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, and a number of presentations at important international conferences. An accomplished and respected student supervisor, Dr. Miadonye is extensively cited and has also formed the basis for a number of industrial collaborations. Well-respected by his colleagues nationally and internationally, Dr. Miadonye has been a leader and contributor to his professional academic community holding offices and serving on committees with numerous academic and professional societies.

His research interest includes how temperature and pressure affect the viscosity of bitumen and crude oil, green chemistry, sustainable solvents and processing, petroleum and petroleum products characterization, polymeric materials characterization and processing

Dr. Mehrvar joined Ryerson University, Canada, in 1998 and he is now a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Mehrvar has a strong commitment to research. His main research interests include the integration of advanced oxidation technologies and biological processes for the treatment of water and wastewater as well as photochemical reaction engineering. He has authored/co-authored more than 85 refereed journal papers, 4 book chapters, 20 conference proceedings, and more than 150 presentations/abstracts. He has conducted more than 25 international invited seminars and workshops in different countries. He has also supervised/co-supervised more than 40 graduate students in both master’s and doctoral levels, more than 25 research assistants, exchange students, and visiting scholars, and many undergraduate fourth year’s theses. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of a newly created journal, American Journal of Modern Chemical Engineering. He has served as editorial board member of several refereed journals and as organizing and scientific committee member of several international conferences. Dr. Mehrvar is a licensed professional engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.

His main research interests include the integration of advanced oxidation technologies and biological processes for the treatment of water and wastewater as well as photochemical reaction engineering.

M. A. Martin Luengo, studied chemistry in the UAM (Madrid, Spain). In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work on oxidation catalysts and her phD on hydrogenation catalysts, both with honours. As a postdoctoral grant holder of the CSIC she worked in Brunel University (UK) and in the University of Louvain la Neuve (Belgium). She worked as a fellowship IA with the Scientific Engineering Research Council (UK), on Fischer Tropsch and from 1992 she is permanent scientific staff of CSIC (Spain). She has participated in more than 25 research projects, 100 scientific papers and chapters of books, 120 congresses, several patents, is chartered chemist of RSC and member of ACS and of the Spanish Societies of Catalysis and Clays.

Her research interest includes studies on sustainable issues, searching for the use of renewable materials, energies and chemical processes, especially giving priority to countries with deprived economies

Professor Ajay K. Ray, Chair of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at Western University, has made seminal research contributions in industrial process modeling and optimization; development of solar photocatalysis; and advancement of simulated moving bed technology for reactive separation. Dr. Ray has contributed to enhance engineering knowledge by devising innovative approaches to enhance process performance for applications in energy, environment, food and health, the key challenges facing the world. Dr. Ray is a prolific author, having written a text book on Engineering Mathematics and over 170 research articles in archival journals. The impact of his work is evident from high h-index and citations his published research articles have received. He has mentored over 60 graduate students. He is member of the editorial board of journals, recipient of the Research, Teaching and Faculty Scholars award, CrayQuest award, Distinguished Speakers award, and Distinguished Alumni award from Calcutta University.

His research interest includes industrial process modeling and optimization; development of solar photocatalysis; and advancement of simulated moving bed technology for reactive separation

Dr. Nicolas Abatzoglou is full professor and ex-Head of the Department of Chemical & Biotechnological Engineering of the Université de Sherbrooke. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan and Laval University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is a specialist in Process Engineering involving particulate systems. He is the Director of the GRTP-C&P (Groupe of Research on Technologies and Processes in the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industry). Since May 2008, he is the holder of the Pfizer Industrial Research Chair in Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) in Pharmaceutical Engineering. He is one of the Leaders in Canada’s NCE Network BioFuelNet on Biorefining. He is co-founder of the company Enerkem Technologies Inc., precursor of Enerkem Inc., a spin-off commercializing technologies in the field of energy from renewable resources. His scientific production includes a 100+ publications, reviews, conferences, keynotes, plenaries and invited lectures, patents and three book chapters.

His research interest includes Process Engineering involving particulate systems.

Professor Guangsheng LUO received his BSc. Degree in applied chemistry in 1988 and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1993 at Tsinghua University. He worked at Caen University, France, as a Postdoctoral Research fellow from 1995 to 1996 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as a visiting scientist from 2001 to 2002. His research interests include micro-structured chemical systems, separation science and technology, mass transfer phenomena, and controllable preparation of functional Materials. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed papers and obtained more than 70 invention patents in China. He obtained the “National Outstanding Young Scientist Award” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2005 and he was appointed as a Chungkung Professor by the Ministry of Education of China in 2009. He is now the director of the State Key Lab of Chemical Engineering.

His research interests include micro-structured chemical systems, separation science and technology, mass transfer phenomena, and controllable preparation of functional Materials

Aymn Abdulrahman has completed his PhD at the age of 35 years from University of Maine, USA. He worked for 9 months in Arabian Petroleum Supply (APSCO) in Saudi Arabia and then about two years in sugar refinery as shift manager trainee between 2003 and 2006. Currently, he is an assistant professor and chairman of chemical engineering department at university of Jeddahthe, Suadi Arabia. He participated as a member and speaker in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE Annual Meeting) in Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2009.

His research interest includes Separation process (Liquid - Liquid Extraction), Alternatives and renewable energy, Biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals

Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at Western Sydney University and Australian College of ACK, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

Bionanotech

Dr. Rehab O. Abdel Rahman is an associate professor of Chemical Nuclear Engineering at the Radioactive Waste Management Department, Hot Laboratories &Waste Management Center, Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt. She received her Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering. She authored more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 5 book chapters, and 1 monograph. Her research interests cover different aspects in radioactive waste management, including both predisposal and disposal activities. She serves as a verified reviewer in several international journals, member of organizing committees of international conferences, managing editor in IJEWM, and IJEE and editor of three books. She is a member in World Nuclear Association, Women In Nuclear, Egyptian society for radiation science and its application, Healthy Water Association, Egyptian engineers syndicate, and Organization for Women in Science for the Developing countries. Dr Rehab is an honored scientist of ASRT and of Publons sentinel of science. She is nominated as a member of IBC top engineers.

Her research interests cover different aspects in radioactive waste management, including both predisposal and disposal activities.

Naveed Akhtar is a Chief Scientist at AFC Energy, UK. Naveed has spent nearly 15 years of his life in Hydrogen and Fuel Cell related activities, covering both Academic and Industrial research. Naveed holds multidisciplinary academic background, i.e., B.Eng in Mechanical (Pak), M.Sc. in Renewable Energy (Germany) and PhD in Chemical Engineering (UK). In 2004, he established Pakistan's First Hydrogen Energy Laboratory. Due to his continued interest in fuel cells, he has worked/trained in many countries including, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Netherland, UK etc. He is amongst one of the experts around the world who have the opportunity to work on almost all major kinds of fuel cells, i.e. SOFC, PEMFC, DMFC and AFC. During his PhD, he investigated the performance of micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cells under single-chamber conditions. His research on this topic has the honor of the first modelling and experimental studies ever published. Naveed holds various prestigious awards/fellowships such as Dorothy Hodgkin Award, Marie Curie Fellowship, UNESCO Fellowship, Grove Fuel Cell Symposium Student Bursary, Universitas 21 Scholarship, DAAD Scholarship etc. He has published over 28 papers in scientific journals/proceedings and has filed 11 patents out of which 10 are published, other pending approval. Naveed has received the honorary recommendation from President International Association of Hydrogen Energy. His biography has been published annually in 28th -33rd edition (2011-2016) of “Who’s Who in the World”. Naveed has received the "best scientific paper" award at the 2013 PEFC & H2 Forum-Switzerland, Europe's most respected fuel cell event. He was a Member of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the 5th European PEFC & H2 Forum which was held at Lucerne, Switzerland in July 2015. Naveed will serve again as SAC in the upcoming 6th European PEFC & H2 Forum to be held at Lucerne in 2017. Naveed is a member of several professional institutions, such as PVS, ASME, ECS, IAHE, MIET, AASCIT and an affiliate member of IChemE. He is editorial board member of American Journal of Energy and Power Engineering.

His research interest includes the performance of micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cells under single-chamber conditions

Bor-Yann Chen has expertise in biomass energy and environemntal biotechnology. His serial stuides focused on applications in wastewater treatment, bioremediation engineering, biofuel cells. He completed PhD from University of California, Irvine in 1995 and used to be NRC awarded Research Associate to work in NRMRL/US EPA, Cincinnati Ohio. He is Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National I-Lan University, Taiwan. He has published 150+ SCI-peer reviewed papers in reputed journals and has many National Awards (e.g., Professor Yen-Ping Shih Best Paper Awards of 2007, 2011, 2013 and 2016 from Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers).

This first-attempt study used extracts of appropriate antioxidant abundant Camellia and non-Camellia tea and medicinal herbs as model electron shuttles (ESs) to stably augment bioelectricity generation performance in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). As ESs (or redox mediators) could stimulate electron transport phenomena by considerable reduction of electron transfer resistance, the efficiency of power generation for energy extraction in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) could be appreicably augmented

Nemer Muhanna has completed his PhD at the age of 39 years from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. He is working in Sadara Chemical Company, one of the largest petrochemical plant in the world since 2014 as Analytical Sciences and Technology Scientist and has experience in the analytical field of about 20 years. He has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals in different fields.

• Newly developed analytical methods to resolve environmental and petroleum related challenging sample matrices. •Additives and oxidation stability in petroleum products. • Water Chemistry. • Environmental Chemistry • Spectrochemical Analysis • Thermochemistry

Erich Jeitler has completed his PhD 2008 at Graz University of Technology. He is co-owner and general manager of Prozess Optimal CAP GmbH. The company is an engineering office for chemical and process engineering with the focus on process simulation and modelling. He has been also a lecture at the University of Applied Science – FH JOANNEUM in Graz since 2009.

In the chemical and process industry, a variety of thermal unit operations is applied in which gases or vapor mixtures must be cooled down to temperatures near the water dew point. Such mixtures often contain substances which tend to evolve corrosive characteristics in case the temperature unintentionally falls below the water dew point.

YIN Hong is an associate professor in chemical engineering and applied chemistry at Zhejiang University. She has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals and has more than 30 authorized patents. She is the winner of National Second Prize of Technology Innovation and National Excellent Prize of Patent

For system of oil dispersed in continuous water phase, effects of  and μc were similar to that for water dispersed system. Beside, d32 and S/V decrease with increasing density difference between two phases. C and D significantly influence the flow pattern, which would directly affect the mixing.

He is the retired professor from IIT Delhi. His degrees are B.Sc. (Hons.in Chem.), B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D. He is an ex-Prof.&Head BERC, Senior Prof.DBEB,IIT Delhi, ex-Prof.SoBT,GBU,G.N.,UP,India, ex-Adjunct Prof.,ex-Guest Faculty,DBS,BITS Pilani,Rajasthan,India.His Fellowships include FNAE,FIIChE,LMISTE. He had received following awards JSPS of Japan, Fulbright of USA, Overseas Associateship of DBT, GOI. He had Authored Six Books.

Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Fermentation Technology, Food Technology, Biological Waste Treatment Technology, Applied Microbiology.

Jaroslaw Krzywanski is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. He received the M.Sc. degree from Czestochowa University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Institute of Thermal Machinery, Poland and Ph.D. degree from Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Poland. He has published more than 100 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings refereed papers and serves as an editorial board member of several international journals. He has participated in the scientific committee of several conferences and serves as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals. He is interested in modeling of energy objects and processes, including gas emissions and hydrogen production from biomass combustion and gasification, respectively. He uses both programmed and AI methods to predict pollutants emissions from biomass co-combustion in large-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, chemical looping combustion (CLC) of biomass in a pilot-scale fluidized bed (FB) systems as well as the H2 concentration in syngas during the hydrogen production via CaO sorption enhanced anaerobic gasification of sawdust in a laboratory-scale FB systems.

He uses both programmed and AI methods to predict pollutants emissions from biomass co-combustion in large-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, chemical looping combustion (CLC) of biomass in a pilot-scale fluidized bed (FB) systems as well as the H2 concentration in syngas during the hydrogen production via CaO sorption enhanced anaerobic gasification of sawdust in a laboratory-scale FB systems.

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Orawan Suwantong received B.Sc. degree in Industrial Chemistry from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, in 2003, and Ph.D. degree in Polymer Science from The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in 2009. During Ph.D. degree, she went to Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta as a research assistant for 6 months. In 2009, she joined the School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand and received Assistant Professor in Polymer Science and Technology in 2016. Her current research interests include electrospinning, wound dressing materials, tissue engineering, drug delivery system, hydrogels for agricultural application

Her research areas include Electrospinning of polymers and Polymers for biomedical applications

Dr. Tang received her Ph.D. degree and M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. She got her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Dr. Tang has research interests including wellbore/reservoir numerical simulation, coupled fluid and geomechanics simulation, wellbore multiphase flow modeling, and data-driven model development. She currently works with Prof. Abbas Firoozabadi on CO2 fracturing simulation.

Dr. Abouleish has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Tennessee Technological University in Environmental Science and Technology. He is an Associate Professor at the American University of Sharjah, in the United the Arab Emirates. He has published different research in reputed journals that is related to Chemical Engineering, Water and Wastewater treatment, Environmental Science and other research areas.

Usage of Biosorbent Material for the Removal of Nitrate from Wastewater

Dr. Parimanan Cherntongchai has completed her PhD in chemical engineering since 2006 from University College London, London, UK. Currently, she works at the Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand as a senior lecturer. She has published approximately10 papers in reputed journals.

Recent research on the Revised Bed Collapse Model for Sound Assisted Fluidization

Dr. Conly Hansen has completed his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from The Ohio State University and joined as a Project Engineer for United States Army (discharged as Captain). At present, he is working as a Professor and Graduate Program Director at Center for Profitable Uses of Agricultural Byproducts, USA. He has published more than 56 research articles in reputed journals along with 6 book chapters; and presented more than 38 presentations with abstracts in national/international conference/symposia. He has around 14 significant honors on his name.

His research areas include Food Engineering, Bioreactors, Waste Treatment and Agriculture Engineering