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Before becoming Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at The University
of Manchester Professor Perkins was Principal of the Faculty of Engineering and Courtaulds Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial
College London. His academic career spans periods at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Sydney as well as Imperial
College. He has industrial experience with Shell and with ICI, in the UK and in Australia, and has acted as a consultant for a number
of companies around the world. His research interests cover a number of facets of process systems, including process design, process
control and process modelling and dynamic simulation. He is the author of around 200 papers, and he has supervised more than 30 successful
PhD candidates. Professor Perkins is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the City and Guilds of London Institute, the Institution
of Chemical Engineers and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Mathematician and
Chartered Scientist. Professor Perkins was awarded a CBE in the 2007 New Year's Honours List for his continuing work related to the advancement
of science and engineering.
Professor Stephen Richardson is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of Department in the
Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. Professor Richardson was educated at Imperial College. After working as
a Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge, he was appointed as a Lecturer at Imperial College in 1978 and then promoted through
the ranks to Professor in 1994. His principal research interest is safety, specifically the depressurisation of vessels and pipelines,
particularly those associated with oil and gas production, and development of the computer program BLOWDOWN, which has since been used
in the design of well over 200 installations. In 1996, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy Engineering.
Professor Nikolai Kulov is the Head of the Theoretical Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Laboratory
at the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He obtained an engineering degree in
isotope separation at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Engineering in Moscow followed by a PhD (1967) in chemistry and ScD (1984)
in chemical engineering from the Kurnakov Institute. He spent a year (1973 74) as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge.
Since 1986 he has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Mendeleev University. His research activities include transport processes
in heterogeneous systems, surface phenomena, gas absorption and distillation in falling film equipment, including downward annular two-phase
flows, reactive distillation, melt crystallization, and physicochemical intensification of heat and mass transfer. He is an Honoured
Scientist and Technologist of the Russian Federation.
Professor Ryszard Pohorecki studied chemistry at Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), where he
received a MSc in 1959 and PhD in 1964. During 1965 66 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, which he also visited
in 1986 and 2000. In 1970 he received his DSc ('habilitation') at WUT. During 1988 89 he taught and carried out research in France (Toulouse
and Nancy). For most of his scientific career he has been employed at WUT, where he is now Full Professor of Chemical Engineering, Head
of the Chemical Reactor and Bioprocess Engineering Division, and Director of the Centre of Biotechnology. He is also the European Federation
of Chemical Engineering's Vice President for Science.
Dr Eva Sørensen is a Reader in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London.
She received her MSc (1989) and PhD (1994) in Chemical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Following
this, she spent a year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering before joining UCL in 1996. Dr. Sørensen
is the Chair of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Fluid Separations Subject Group and the Secretary of the European Federation of
Chemical Engineering's Working Party on Fluid Separations. Her research interests and in the area of modelling, optimization and control
of separation processes in particular, distillation, membrane and chromatographic separations.
Professor Barry Azzopardi joined the University of Nottingham in 1990. For seven years he was Head
of Department of Chemical Engineering. Since 1997 he has led a research group in multiphase flow in the School of Chemical, Environmental
and Mining Engineering. He obtained his PhD at Exeter University under the supervision of Professor Michael Lacey. He then spent three
years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford's Engineering Science Department before joining the staff of the United
Kingdom Atomic Energy Establishment at Harwell. In all his research he has worked on multiphase flows, initially on gas liquid flows
but latterly he has ventured into liquid liquid and gas solid flows. Transportation, phase separation gas cleaning and metering have
been major themes of his work.
Professor Jiři Drahoš received his MSc (1972) and PhD (1977) in physical chemistry. He
was the Av Humboldt fellow at Hannover University (1985). He received his DSc in chemical engineering in 1999 and became an elected member
of the Engineering Academy Czech Republic in 2001. He became a Full Professor of chemical engineering in 2003, and received his Drhc
from the Slovak Technical University in 2006. Professor Drahos. is currently Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
His principal research interest is multiphase chemical reactors. He has published more than 60 original papers in impacted international
journals, eight chapters in books, four international and ten Czech patents. Professor Drahos. is the President of the European Federation
of Chemical Engineering.
Professor J. B. Joshi is Professor of Chemical Technology and the Director of the Institute of Chemical
Technology (formerly UDCT). He has research and teaching experience of 34 and 35 years, respectively. His research areas include fluid
mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, design of multiphase reactors and computer aided process design. He has been coroneted with
several prestigious awards and honours. He has so far guided 48 students for their doctoral degree (PhD) and 49 students for their masters
degree. Through the years his research has resulted in more than 295 papers in international journals and 38 state-of-the-art monographs/chapters
in books. He is an active consultant to large, medium and small scale chemical process industry. He has designed novel reactors, processes
and plants which are in successful commercial operation. He represents an advisory committee of several important governmental and non-governmental
bodies and is a member of the advisory board of several international journals.
Professor Paul Mavros studied at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University
of Athens, and obtained his Diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1977. He obtained his MSc (1978) and PhD (1981) degrees at the (then)
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). After his return to Greece, he was appointed Lecturer at the Department
of Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he is serving today as Associate Professor. His main research interest
is the study of chemical reactor hydrodynamics.
Professor Bruce Nauman spent 17 years at Union Carbide Corporation (now Dow Chemical) and Xerox Corporation.
He joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and has had a variety of positions including Chairman of Chemical Engineering, President
of the Faculty Senate, and Chair of the Faculty. He is an active consultant with more than 100 clients worldwide. He has written four
books and more than 150 technical publications. Twenty-nine PhD's have done their theses under his supervision. His expertise is in reaction
engineering, thermodynamics and mixing.
Professor Catherine Xuereb obtained her degree in chemical engineering in 1986 from the National
Polytechnical Institute of Toulouse. She holds a PhD in chemical and process engineering, her thesis being devoted to gas solid fluidized
beds. Since obtaining her PhD she has been working for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, LGC) with her research focusing
on liquid and multiphase mixing. She is leading a group involved in mixing, implementation of pilot plants for industrial applications
and more recently mini and microreactors. She also serves as Chairwoman of the Working Party on Mixing of the French Federation of Chemical
Engineering.
Professor Xiao Dong Chen received his BE in 1987 from Tsinghua University, and was awarded his PhD
in chemical engineering from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1991. He has extensive industrial experience in dairy processing
and has published widely in engineering journals and conferences. He has co-authored one book and contributed chapters in other books.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineering. He has held a Personal Chair
of Chemical Engineering at Auckland University since 2001. He has received the Shedden Udhe Medal, E R Cooper Medal, Shell Distinguished
Visiting Fellowship, John Hood Fellowship and most recently The Fonterra Award. In mid April 2006, he moved to Australia to take up the
Chair of Biotechnology and Food Engineering based in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University.
Professor K.D.P. Nigam is working on several promising possibilities to develop cleaner and greener technology
and energy efficient innovative devices. He has about 100 research publications in peer reviewed journals. The high impact and significance
of Professor Nigam's work can be judged from the extensive citations it has received in research literature, research monographs, such
as Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, and textbooks.
Professor Zdzislaw Pakowski is a Professor at the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering
at the Technical University of Lódz, Poland. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from his Alma Mater and his DSc degree from the
University of Technology of Warsaw. He spent two years at McGill University as a Postdocoral Researcher. Professor Pakowski specialized
in drying processes and is the Secretary of the International Drying Symposia and a member of the Working Party on Drying of the European
Federation of Chemical Engineering. He also works for industry where he specializes in the design of fluid bed dryers. His research concentrates
on various aspects of drying including superheated steam drying of biomass, numerical simulation of drying processes, production of nanoparticles
and nanostructured porous solids by drying.
Dr Zhifa Sun obtained his MSc (1982) in chemical engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology
and his PhD (1988) in chemical engineering from Tianjin University. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Physics Department at Otago
University. His research areas include process modelling, simulation and optimization, equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics,
heat and mass transfer, and critical and non-equilibrium phase transition phenomena in chemical and physical systems. His work is primarily
concerned with the development of tools for understanding complex behaviour due to coupled momentum, heat and mass transfer processes.
Professor Kim Dam-Johansen is Professor in Combustion and Chemical Reaction Engineering, Head of
Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and Director of the CHEC (Combustion and Harmful Emission Control)
research centre dealing with high-temperature processes, the formation and control of harmful emissions, particle technology, and chemical
product design. In the late nineties Professor Dam-Johansen was Group Vice President (Research and Development) of the global paint company
Hempel.
Professor Críspulo Gallegos is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chair at the University
of Huelva. He received his PhD from the University of Seville in 1982. From 1985 1997 he was Professor of Chemical Engineering at the
University of Seville. He has also been Visiting Professor at several universities including the University of Cambridge and Universite'
Laval. His research interests lie in rheology, microstructure and processing of complex fluids. Professor Gallegos is the author of more
than 200 papers in scientific journals and books, and author of more than 200 contributions to international and national conferences.
Dr Kieran Looney is a Research Fellow at DuPont Teijin Films U.K. Ltd. After gaining a degree and PhD
in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin, he spent three years in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College
London working on computational fluid dynamics simulation of two-phase flows in stirred vessels. He joined ICI New Science Group at Runcorn
in 1985, leading their CFD applications unit and moved into materials processing research and development in 1988 upon joining their
films business on Teeside. Still in the polyester film business which is now owned by a joint venture between DuPont and Teijin, his
research interests are focused on polymer, melt and film processing for innovative film applications with particular emphasis on all
fluid dynamics and heat transfer aspects.
Dr Geoff Moggridge did both his undergraduate and graduate work at the Chemistry Department at the
University of Cambridge. His PhD research involved in situ X-ray studies of a methane coupling catalyst. Subsequently he worked on surface
science, heterogeneous catalysis and clay materials, at synchrotron facilities, including a period as an EU Human Capital and Mobility
Fellow in France. Since 1995 he has been a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University. His work is focused on the area
of the microstructure of materials (often soft solids) and how it is influenced by processing and in turn determines the physical properties
of bulk materials. He also has a strong interest in chemical product design and has co-authored a book on this topic. He has won a Pilkington
Teaching Prize and the Institution of Chemical Engineer's Frank Morton Medal for his work on this subject.
Dr Arne Fredheim is a Senior Research Advisor at Statoil ASA in the Research and Technology Development
Group in Trondheim. In addition Dr Fredheim holds a position as Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU) in
Trondheim. His research activities includes gas processing in general with special focus on LNG production technology, LNG heat exchangers,
gas processing, gas treating, gas separation, thermodynamics, phase-equilibrium and thermo-physical properties. Within all of the activities
the focus is on experimental research.
Professor John Dodds obtained a degree and PhD in chemical engineering from Loughborough University. He
moved to France in 1968 and was a CNRS Research Worker at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique in Nancy for over 27
years before moving to Albi in 1996. He is the author, or co-author of over 150 scientific papers, co-editor of a book, and represents
France in the European Federation of Chemical Engineering's Working Party on Characterisation of Particulate Systems of which he is the
Chairman. Professor Dodds is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
in 2005.
Professor Mojtaba Ghadiri is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Institute of
Particle Science and Engineering at the University of Leeds. He graduated in chemical engineering from the University of Tehran and has
an MSc from Imperial College London and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He worked for Unilever Research for two years before
taking up an academic post at the University of Surrey, where he worked for 18 years before joining the University of Leeds in 2001.
He is a Consultant of the International Fine Particle Research Institute, providing advisory service in the area of size reduction, a
Visiting Professor at the University of Calabria, Italy, and an expert assessor for the Australian, Canadian, Italian and Norwegian Research
Councils as well as a member of the Peer Review College of the EPSRC. His research is focused on the development of relationships between
microscopic and macroscopic properties and phenomena in particulate systems. The ultimate objective is to provide a basis for systematic
design of particulate products and of related processes.
Professor Pierre Guigon received his Master of Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario
in 1974, Docteur Ingénieur (1976) and Docteur es Science (1987) from the Université de Technologie Compiègne. He
is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Professor Guigon is head of the Particle Technology Group at the Technical University
of Compiègne. His research is in the field of particle suspensions (fluidization, pneumatic transport) and particle technology
(communition and agglomeration).
Professor Alan Jones is Ramsay Memorial Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at
UCL. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester and his PhD and DSc (Eng) from UCL.
He spent eight years in Unilever and ICI as a chemical process engineer, working in Research & Development and Engineering departments
in the UK and Australia. His research interests are mainly in the area of modelling, design and operation of industrial crystallization
process systems. He is a Fellow of the IChemE, a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a member of the IChemE Accreditation
Committee.
Massimo Poletto has been Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the School of Engineering
of the University of Salerno (Italy) since 2001, he has been a faculty member of the Department of Chemical and Food Engineering since
1994. He graduated from the School of Engineering of the University "Federico II" of Naples (Italy) in 1989. He obtained the
Doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering at the same university in 1993. From 1993 to 1994 he was a visiting post-doc at the Department
of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota (USA). He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Working Party
of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) on 
Professor Richard A. Williams is the Anglo American plc Professor of Mineral and Process Engineering
at the University of Leeds. He undertook undergraduate and PhD studies at Imperial College London and was formerly a Senior Lecturer
in Chemical Engineering at UMIST. He has been at the University of Leeds since 1999 and is a founder of the Institute of Particle Science
and Engineering (IPSE) with some 130 researchers working on measurement, modelling and manufacture of particles and colloidal products.
His research interests are in particle separation, colloid aggregation and precision emulsification and he has worked on the development
and application of tomographic techniques since 1988. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Institutions
of Chemical Engineers and Materials, Mining and Metallurgy. He is Pro Vice Chancellor for Enterprise, Knowledge Transfer and International
Strategy at the University of Leeds.
Dr Zoltan Nagy is a Senior Lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department at Loughborough University,
UK. He received his MSc (1995) and PhD (2001) in Chemical Engineering from the `Babes-Bolyai? University of Cluj, Romania. Following
this he spent two years as a NATO Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. From
2003 to 2005 he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, before joining Loughborough University in 2005.
His research interests include: pharmaceutical and biomedical systems engineering, mathematical modelling, optimization and control of
chemical processes in particular crystallization and polymerization systems.
Professor Michael F. Doherty is Professor and Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at the
University of California Santa Barbara. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London in
1973, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1977. His research interests are in process
design together with the associated chemical sciences necessary to support the design activity. He has published extensively on design
and synthesis of nonideal separation systems, especially the coupling of separation with chemical reaction, and crystallization of organic
materials from solution. He is the holder of four patents, has published over 200 technical papers, and one textbook. He has received
numerous honors and awards for his teaching and research. He has served as a consultant for many multinational companies in the area
of process design & separation technology, and has served on the Corporate Technical Advisory Boards for The Dow Chemical Company
and Rhone-Poulenc.
Professor Julian Morris is Professor of Process Control, immediate past Head of the School of Chemical
Engineering and Advanced Materials, Director of the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT), has spent some time
as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada and was Head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
at the University of Newcastle between 1990 and 1995. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers,
the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Measurement and Control and a past Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
His research interests include process diagnostics, process performance monitoring and advanced process control. His contributions to
process control are recognized by the co-receipt of a number of paper prizes and awards. He has authored/co-authored over 170 articles
in scientific journals, conferences and books, and given over 60 invited lectures and over 30 plenary and keynote presentations.
Professor Michael Piovoso is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University School
of Graduate Professional Studies. Prior to joining Penn State, Professor Piovoso spent nearly 33 years in the DuPont Company Central
Research Department. His work was mainly in the area of the application of multivariate methods to improved process understanding and
control, neural networks, expert systems, process control and fault detection and identification. In 1999, Professor Piovoso won the
IEEE Control Systems Technology Award for his contributions to the application of multivariate statistics. Since joining Penn State,
besides continued work in process systems, Professor Piovoso has also extended his research into data mining.
Professor Nilay Shah is currently a Professor of Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London
and a Director of Process Systems Enterprise Limited. Nilay's research interests include the application of systems modelling and optimization
techniques to analyse, improve and design process systems such as chemical and biochemical plants, energy systems and supply chains.
Professor Günter Wozny is a Full Professor in Process Dynamic and Operation at the Berlin University
of Technology. After gaining a degree in mechanical engineering and chemical engineering from RWTH Aachen and a PhD in thermodynamic
from RWTH Aachen and Habilitation in energy engineering from the University of Siegen he worked for ten years at Henkel GmbH in Düsseldorf
specializing in process simulation and control. He has a Professor h.c. from Politechnika Krakowska. His research now focuses on computer
aided process engineering, particularly in distillation and absorption and plant wide design, optimization and process control.
Professor Asterios Gavriilidis obtained a Diploma (1988) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
and an MSc and PhD (1993) from the University of Notre Dame, both in chemical engineering. He then joined the Department of Chemical
Engineering at University College London where he was promoted to Professor in 2004. His research interests are in the areas of chemical
and catalytic reaction engineering with particular focus on microengineered, multifunctional and intensified catalytic reactors. He has
worked on heterogeneous catalyst design and has co-authored a book on this topic. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution
of Chemical Engineers and UK representative in the Working Party of Chemical Reaction Engineering of the European Federation of Chemical
Engineering.
Professor Mooson Kwauk received his B.S. from the University of Shanghai (1943) and M.S. from Princeton
University (1947). He then worked at Hydrocarbon Research Inc on the development of processes on coal gasification, air separation, gas
purification and gaseous reduction of iron ore; leading to three US patents. He also spent time with the Coca-Cola Export Corporation.
Since 1956 Professor Kwauk has been at the Institute of Process Engineering (formerly Institute of Chemical Metallurgy) of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences as Professor, Director and Director Emeritus. His research has focused on fluidized roasting of Chinese iron ores;
fluidized leaching and washing; proposing 'generalized fluidization' and other related concepts. Professor Kwauk was once a Visiting
Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Ohio State University. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of
Science and corresponding member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science. He is a winner of the Chesterman Award, National Natural
Science Award (twice), and International Award of Fluidization Achievement.
Dr. François Lapicque graduated in chemical engineering and physical chemistry in 1979 from
INPL in Nancy. After his first PhD with Professor Villermaux on high temperature reactions using solar furnaces in 1983, he moved to
electrochemical engineering in the same CNRS-funded laboratory. In cooperation with various European universities and research centers
he has been working in various domains of electrochemical engineering: electrosynthesis, electrodeposition, techniques for gas and water
treatment, and fuel cell operations. He became Chairman of the Working Party on Electrochemical Engineering of the European Federation
of Chemical Engineering in 2002.
Professor Thierry Meyer obtained his MSc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
in 1985 followed by a PhD in 1989 in chemical engineering. He joined Ciba-Geigy in 1994 as a development chemist in the pigment division,
then was head of development and became production manager in 1998. In 1999 he moved to the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
at EPFL, heading the Polymer Reaction Engineering Unit. Since 2002, he has served as the chairman of the Working Party on Polymer Reaction
Engineering of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.
Professor José Coca is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical
Engineering and Environmental Technology at the University of Oviedo. He received his undergraduate and M.S. degree in chemistry from
the University of Salamanca and his PhD in chemical engineering from the same university in 1968. He spent a postdoctoral two-year stay
at the University of Wisconsin working on chromatographic reactors. During his stay in Wisconsin he had several teaching responsibilities
as Visiting Professor. He has served as Department Chairman and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences. He is member of the American Chemical
Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is the Spanish representative in the Working Parties of 'Distillation, Absorption
and Extraction' and 'Membranes' of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He has served as member of the 'Sciences pour l'ingenieur'
committee of the French CNRS (2001-2005). Professor Coca's research interests are on extraction related processes, emulsions, membrane
technology and hybrid separation processes. He has published more than 230 papers, obtained two patents, and has supervised 45 doctoral
dissertations and 75 master theses. He has written several monographs and one book.
Professor Andrew Guy Livingston was born (1962) and bred in Taranaki, New Zealand and studied
Chemical Engineering in New Zealand. Following graduation, he worked for 3 years at a New Zealand food processing company doing general
chemical engineering. In 1986, he started a PhD at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Upon finishing his PhD, he joined the Department
of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College. His research focuses on immobilised cell bioreactors, waste treatment, membrane separations,
biotransformations, and chemical and separations technology. He has been a full Professor since 1999, published over 170 papers and granted
15 patents in chemical technology. Awards include Junior Moulton Medal and Cremer and Warner Medal of IChemE. He leads a research group
of 15 PhD students and Post-Docs, with current research interests in (bio)chemical technology including separations for chemical &
pharmaceutical applications. In 1993, graduated with an MSc in Economics from London School of Economics (LSE) following part-time study.
In 1996, he founded Membrane Extraction Technology, a spin-out company which carries out process development and commercialisation of
membrane separation processes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2006, and became Head of Department in
2008.
Dr. Masaru Nakaiwa joined the National Chemical Laboratory for Industry, Ministry of International
Trade and Industry, Japan in 1980. Since 2006, he has been Principal Research Scientist at the Research Institute for Innovation in Sustainable
Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering,
Kyoto University in 1980, and received his Doctor of Engineering degree in chemical engineering from Kyoto University in 1988.
Professor Marianne Nyström has a Doctor of philosophy in physical chemistry and is Professor
of Membrane Technology at Lappeenranta University of Technology. Her research focuses on membrane characterization, fouling, UF, NF and
RO, and today mostly NF working for projects in the mining and metal industry, food Industry (sugar and dairy), pulp and paper industry
and some biotechnology. Professor Nystroum's laboratory has about 20 people of which ten are PhD students. She has published more than
200 scientific publications (including more than 100 refereed papers). Current projects are with the EU and the Academy of Finland in
addition to industrial projects.
Professor Gilbert Rios is Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ecole
Nationale Supèrieure de Chimie de Montpellier. He is an expert in membrane technologies, and Co-Director of the European Membrane
Institute. His other areas of interest are supercritical fluids and fluidization. He is the author of more than 120 papers in international
journals and congress proceedings, and more than 100 oral and poster presentations at international conferences. He is a Fellow of the
Institution of Chemical Engineers, as well as a Member of the European Membrane Society and the Working Party on Membranes of the European
Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is the coordinator of the European Network of Excellence on 'Nanoscalebased membrane technologies'
(NanoMemPro FP6 NMP).
Professor Geoff Stevens is the Director of the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, an Australian
Research Council Special Research Centre. His interests are in the area of separation processes, particularly solvent extraction, interfacial
phenomena, emulsion stability and new materials. The research is primarily in the hydrometallurgical field but also covers tissue engineering,
pharmaceutical and environmental and waste water treatment.
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