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Alexis T. Bell received his Sc.D. degree from M.I.T. in Chemical Engineering in 1967. That
same year he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in 1967, where he currently holds
the title of Full Professor. From 1979-1981 he served as the Assistant Dean of the College of Chemistry, from 1981-1991 as the Chairman
of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and from 1994-1999 as Dean of the College of Chemistry. Professor Bell is also a Faculty
Senior Scientist in the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the Editor of Catalysis Reviews and Chemical
Engineering Science, and he serves on the editorial board of a large number of other journals. He has also served on numerous committees
of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Council for Chemical Research, and the National Research
Council. The results of his research have been published in over 510 articles appearing in refereed journals. He has received many honors
for his research contributions. These include the Curtis W. McGraw Award for Research, given by the American Association of Engineering
Education; the Professional Progress, R. H. Wilhelm, and William H. Walker Awards, given by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers;
the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis and the Robert Burwell Lectureship, given by the North American Catalysis Society;
ACS Award for Creative Research in Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Catalysis; Michel Boudart Award for the Advancement of Catalysis, given
by the North American Catalysis Society and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies; and the Giuseppe Paravanno Award for Excellence
in Research in Catalysis, given by the Michigan Catalysis Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has received an honorary
professorship from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has also presented eleven named lectures at various universities
and research institutes.
Ian Metcalfe obtained his first degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College where
he was awarded the Hinchley Medal. He then performed his graduate study at Princeton University obtaining his MA in 1984 and his PhD
in 1987. He returned to the UK to take up a position as a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. In 1997 he was appointed
to the Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and in 2001 he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at UMIST.
In 2005 he moved to Newcastle University as the CPI Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Ronald W. Rousseau holds the Cecil J. "Pete" Silas Endowed Chair and also is chair of the
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research has explored numerous areas related
to separation processes and resulted in more than 175 journal articles, book chapters and monographs, and more than 250 presentations.
In recognition of his contributions to the field of separations, in particular for developments in crystallization science and technology,
Dr. Rousseau was selected to receive the Clarence G. Gerhold Award from the Separations Division of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AIChE). He co-authored Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (Wiley 1978, 1986, 2000) and is the editor of
the Handbook of Separation Process Technology (Wiley, 1987). A Fellow of both AIChE and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Dr. Rousseau received the Warren K. Lewis Award from AIChE for contributions to chemical engineering education, and is member
of the Louisiana State University Engineering Hall of Distinction.
Professor Kai Sundmacher is a German Scientist who studied mechanical and chemical engineering
at the Universities of Hannover, Braunschweig and Clausthal, Germany. After gaining his PhD in 1995, he was a postdoctoral researcher
and DAAD research fellow at the University of Newcastle, UK. In 1999 he became a full professor for Process Systems Engineering at the
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany. Since 2001, he has also been the Director for Process Engineering at the Max-Planck-Institute
for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg. His current research interests include integrated chemical processes, fuel cell
systems, particulate processes and the whole area of mathematical process modeling and simulation. Professor Sundmacher received a number
of awards including the Carl-Zerbe-Award by the German Scientific Society of Petrochemistry (DGMK) and the Arnold-Eucken-Award
by the German Society of Chemical Engineers (GVC/VDI). He is an appointed member of the Research Advisory Board of DECHEMA,
Frankfurt/Germany, Executive Editor of the journal Chemical Engineering Science and has published about 150 refereed papers
and book contributions.
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Dr Béatrice Biscans obtained her degree in Chemical Engineering from the National
Polytechnical Institute of Toulouse in 1982 and was awarded for her PhD in chemical and process engineering in 1985. After a post-doctoral
position, she is working for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 1987 in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory of
Toulouse (LGC). Her research is focused on Solid and Particles Processes. She is leading a group working on crystallization and formulation
processes and nanoparticles production. She is the Vice President of the Working Party on Crystallization of the European Federation
of Chemical Engineering and of the Working Party on Powders and Particles of the French Federation of Chemical Engineering. She has an
official position in CNRS as the French representative expert in Chemical Engineering.
Dr. Raymond J. Gorte joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 after receiving
his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is currently the Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor
of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, with a secondary appointment in Materials Science & Engineering. Since joining Penn,
Dr. Gorte has served as Chairman of Chemical Engineering from 1995 to 2000 and was the Carl V. S. Patterson Professor of Chemical Engineering
from 1996 through 2001. He received the 1997 Parravano Award of the Michigan Catalysis Society, the 1998 Philadelphia Catalysis Club
Award, the 1999 Paul Emmett Award of the North American Catalysis Society, and the 2001 Penn Engineering Distinguished Research Award.
He has served as Chairman of the Gordon Conference on Catalysis (1998) and Program Chairman of the 12th International Zeolite Conference
(1998). His present research interests are focused on electrodes for solid-oxide fuel cells and on thermodynamic studies of redox properties
with oxidation catalysts. He is also known for his research on zeolite acidity and for metal-support effects, especially with ceria-supported
precious metals, used in automotive emissions control.
Dr. Duu-Jong Lee is a Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan
University. Prior to joining NTU in Aug 1992, Dr. Lee began his academic career in the Chemical Engineering Department at Yuan Ze Institute
of Technology in 1990 after completing the Postdoc and PhD in Chemical Engineering Department at NTU. His current research includes novel
water and wastewater treatment processes and renewable energy. Dr. Lee served for a few international and local academic organizations
and for a few archive journals. He is organizing a few international conferences and publishing 100 technical reports every year.
Richard Palmer is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Birmingham, UK,
and Head of the Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, established in 1994 as the first centre for nanoscience in England. The Laboratory's
research interests include nanostructured surfaces, clusters, atomic manipulation and nanofabrication. Professor Palmer obtained his
first degree (1983) and PhD (1986) at Cambridge University, where he held 1851, Clare College and Royal Society Research Fellowships.
He has held sabbatical positions at Cornell, Oxford and Harvard Universities and is Honorary Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea
and Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He was awarded the 1996 Charles Vernon Boys Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics, gave
the Mott Prize Lecture in 1997 and was founding Chair of the Institute's Nanoscale Physics and Technology group. He is the author of
over 250 publications and 12 patent applications.
Ashutosh Sharma is currently Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
and the Coordinator of the DST Unit on Nanosciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. Ashutosh obtained his B.Tech
from IIT Kanpur, M.S. from The Pennsylvania State University and Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo (1987) working with
Eli Ruckenstein. Ashutosh's group works in the areas of mechanics and instabilities of soft visco-elastic interfaces, thin films and
nano-systems; self-organized meso-patterning of polymers, ceramics, hydrogels and carbon; interfacial and colloidal interactions; wetting
and adhesion; smart and functional materials; biosurfaces; and microfluidics/MEMS/NEMS. He has authored or co-authored two edited books
and over 150 peer reviewed journal papers in these areas. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Journal of Colloid &
Interface Science, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering and Indian Chemical Engineer. He is an elected fellow
of all the Indian academies of science and engineering and a recipient of the Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, Friedrich Wilhelm
Bessel Research Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur and the J. C. Bose Fellowship of
the Department of Science & Technology, India.
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