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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.
Dr. Andrzej Pekalski is a chemical engineer graduate from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland.
He received the PhD degree with distinction from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Before joining Shell, he worked at
TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory in the Netherlands. He has broad experience in both fundamental and applied projects in the area of process
safety at super-ambient conditions. His research interests are in process safety, comprehensive reaction kinetics, explosion indices
(modelling and test methods) at non-ambient conditions, hazard identification, risk assessment, quantitative risk analysis, and physical
consequence modelling (fire, release, dispersion, explosion).
Professor Didier Lecomte graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1979, and obtained a PhD at Ecole
des Mines de Paris in 1983 for his research work on thermal energy storage. For ten years his main research and teaching activity werre
related to energy aspects in industry and buildings (drying, thermal processes, solar energy collection and storage) with specific applications
in developing countries. In 1994 he was appointed Professor at Ecole des Mines d'Albi where he was in charge of the Centre for Energy
and Environmental Processes until 2004. Professor Lecomte's current research topics are heat and mass transfer measurement and energy
efficiency in thermal processes, and separation technologies with environmental applications (sludge, wet biomass).
Professor Chun-Zhu Li obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in 1993.
After 2 years with CSIRO, he joined Monash University in 1996. Professor Li has co-authored more than 170 papers in journals and conference
proceedings. He has also edited a book, Advances in the Science of Victorian Brown Coal, and co-authored three chapters in the book.
Professor Li moved to Curtin University of Technology in January 2009 to be the Director of Curtin Centre for Advanced Energy Science
and Engineering.
Miss Helen Conlin is a Principal Consultant with RPS Energy and a Chartered Chemical Engineer with over
thirteen years experience in industry and consultancy. She has assisted public and private sector clients with a wide range of risk and
environmental management projects. Most of her experience is within the high hazard process industries focusing on assessment, review
and improvement of arrangements for managing major accident hazards; individual, team and organizational performance; management of change;
organizational design (including operational staffing arrangements); research; policy appraisal and development.
Professor Sue Cox is Dean of Lancaster University Management School and Professor of Safety and Risk Management.
After graduating in chemistry and psychology, she worked in the chemical/ pharmaceutical industry as a development manager before completing
her MPhil in applied psychology. Professor Cox's research has focused on the management of safety within high reliability organizations
worldwide. More recently her research has focused on organizational learning and the management of change in relation to safety within
the nuclear sector.
Dr David Edwards graduated from Imperial College London. He has worked on conceptual design, computer
applications and safety for the oil and chemicals industries. He led fundamental research in safety and loss prevention, particularly
inherent safety, in the Chemical Engineering Department at Loughborough University. Dr Edwards is now a 'Lead Engineer HSE' with Granherne,
a subsidary of KBR. He is working on feasibility studies for oil and gas projects in their Moscow office.
Professor Jai Gupta obtained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He works in process safety and
inherently safer design in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Professor Gupta has
guided research and conducted short courses in India, Finland and Oman. He successfully organized an International Conference on the
20th Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in December 2004 attracting participants from 26 countries. He has co-authored with Dennis
Hendershot a new chapter on Inherently Safer Design in the 3rd Edition of F P Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries (Edited
by Sam Mannan). He was awarded (with David Edwards) the Hutchinson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 2002.
Professor Geoff Hankinson joined the Chemical Engineering Department at Loughborough University in
2001 as Chair of Pipeline Technologies. Prior to this he worked for Advantica (the former research arm of British Gas) where he was engaged
in experiments and modelling of gas dispersion, fires and explosions and the development of risk assessment methodologies associated
with oil and gas industry operations. Immediately before joining Loughborough University he managed the Environment and Risk Assessment
Department at Advantica which included the Spadeadam Test Site at which full-scale hazard experiments are performed.
Mr Brian Rothwell graduated in Physical Metallurgy from Imperial College London. He has worked for
over 40 years in the fields of materials, fracture and welding for pipeline systems, and for the last 20 years on safety and integrity,
risk and reliability of gas transmission systems. He is Vice-Chair of the Canadian Standards Association Technical Committee for pipeline
systems and materials, and was a member of MIACC's expert committee on risk assessment.
Ms Jill Wilday graduated in chemical engineering from UMIST in 1978. She worked for ICI from 1978-90,
becoming the pressure relief specialist in ICI Engineering. She then accepted a joint appointment between Sheffield University (where
she helped run the MSc course in Process Safety) and the Health and Safety Laboratory. She has worked full-time for HSL since 1995 and
leads a small team of chemical engineers within the Process Safety Section.
Professor Philip Thomas joined City University in 2000 and is a Director of the Centre for Risk Management,
Reliability and Maintenance. He previously worked at ICI and then UKAEA, where he was responsible for the green-field decommissioning
of the Windscale AGR, the UK's first major nuclear power-station decommissioning project. The Institute of Measurement and Control awarded
him its ICI Prize in 1984, 1987 and 1997, and, in 2004, the Honeywell International Medal for distinguished work in control.
Dr Mike Weightman is Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations and Director of the Health and Safety
Executive's (HSE) Nuclear Safety Directorate. Formerly, he was a Deputy Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations and headed the Division
of HSE's Nuclear Safety Directorate that regulates the UK's nuclear power station sites, both operating and decommissioning. Prior to
that he led the NSD Division that regulates BNFL and Urenco nuclear fuel cycle sites including Sellafield. Dr Weightman sits as the UK
representative on the OECD Committee for the Safety of Nuclear Installations and the OECD's Committee of Nuclear Regulatory Authorities.
He led the UK's mission to the first and second review meetings of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and Radioactive
Waste Management, and the third review meeting of the Convention on Nuclear Safety. From May 2002 Dr Weightman also chaired the investigation
board that oversaw the investigation into the Potters Bar rail tragedy. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist, and has degrees
at BSc, MSc and DPhil levels.
Dr Laurence Cusco is Head of Process Safety at the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSE) in Buxton, UK.
He graduated in chemical engineering from UMIST and then received his PhD from Imperial College London in 1992. He has experience of
calorimetry, thermophysical properties of fluids, metrology, chemical reaction hazards, safety cases, incident investigation and major
hazard risk assessment.
Professor Rosa Nomen obtained her degree (1979) and PhD (1982) in chemical engineering form the Institut
Qui'mic de Sarria` . In addition she obtained the degree of Industrial Engineer from the Universitat Ramon Llull in 1993. Since 1982
Professor Nomen has held the position of Professor at the Institut Qui'mic de Sarria` and, since 1992, she has been Full Professor at
the Universitat Ramon Llull. Her academic activity covers several areas, such as numerical and graphical methods, physical chemistry,
chemical engineering, applied thermodynamics and industrial chemistry, calorimetry, thermal analysis and risk assessment, thermo-chemical
risk, and risk identification. Professor Nomen has directed nine PhD's, four master degree theses, and 71 diploma theses. She has also
published 79 articles in international and national journals. She is an invited member at the working group for hazard assessment of
highly reactive and complex systems from the German Society of Chemical Engineers DECHEMA and co-ordinator of the European network
'S2S, A gateway for plant and process safety'
Mr Richard Gowland is the Director of the European Process Safety Centre (EPSC). Until the beginning
of 2004 he worked for Dow Chemical, initially in engineering, then project management, production management, new technology introduction
and finally process safety. He currently directs EPSC for part of his working time which involves researching and promoting best practice.
Additionally, through EPSC he works with the European Commission on implementation of legislation and on the European Technology Platform
for Industrial Safety. His other activities include work on IEC 61511 and layer of protection analysis and process safety management
systems.
Professor Sam Mannan is Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University and
Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. The mission of the center is to
improve safety in the chemical process industry by conducting programs and research activities that promote safety as second nature for
all plant personnel in their day-to-day activities. Before joining Texas A&M University, Professor Mannan was Vice President at RMT,
Inc., a nationwide engineering services company.
Professor Adisa Azapagic is Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Head of Research in
the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at the University of Manchester. Her research interests are in the area of
engineering for sustainable development, which includes systems optimization, clean technology, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology
and corporate sustainability. Professor Azapagic has held a number of fellowships and honorary appointments, some of which include fellowships
from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UNESCO and most recently from the Erskine Visiting Fellowship from the University of Canterbury
in New Zealand. She is a Fellow of the Institution for Chemical Engineers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and FRSA.
Professor Roland Clift is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Technology in the Centre for Environmental
Strategy at the University of Surrey and Visiting Professor in Environmental System Analysis at Chalmers University, Sweden. He is a
member of the Science Advisory Council of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and a past member of the
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. His research concerns the application of system approaches to environmental analysis and
management, including life cycle assessment, material flow, accounting, industrial ecology and sustainable energy systems.
Professor Barry Crittenden received his BSc and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University
of Birmingham. He then spent two years with UKAEA before joining the University of Bath where he became Head of Chemical Engineering
from 1993 to 1997 and from 2004 to 2007. Research interests are focused on facilitating business performance improvement concomitantly
with improvements in environmental performance. He was the winner of the IChemE Hutchison Medal in 2001 for a paper on `Design for Decommissioning
published in Process Safety & Environmental Protection, Barry s research led also to the Severn Trent Water Safety Award in 2002
for joint development of a novel, patented technology to recover and recycle volatile organic compounds.
Dr Stephen Etheridge is currently Chief Technology Officer for the Asia Biogas Company Limited.
He gained a degree in environmental chemical engineering at Exeter and a PhD from the Department of Microbiology at Cardiff. He was a
Visiting Professor at Cornell University before working in the commercial sector with a number of company start-ups. He was appointed
MD of Babtie Environmental in 1992 and subsequently continued a wide range of environmental consulting activities in Europe and Asia.
He has been Chair of the CIWEM Scientific Group, SCI Environmental Biotechnology Group and the IChemE Environmental Protection Subject
Group. Areas of activity include biological waste treatment, anaerobic digestion, cleaner production, IPPC and CDM.
Professor Markus Reuter has recently joined Ausmelt Ltd in Melbourne. He received his BEng, MEng and
PhD from the University of Stellenbosch. In 1994, he obtained his Dr habil at the Aachen University of Technology for which he was awarded
the Friedrich Wilhelm Prize. He has worked for the Anglo American Corporation in South Africa, then as a senior lecturer at the University
of Stellenbosch, and subsequently for Mintek in South Africa as a manager in the Measurement and Control Division. Between 1996 and 2005
he was Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He is the co-author of over 114 publications in refereed international journals
and over 149 publications in International Conference Proceedings. He has also (co-)authored various chapters in encyclopaedias and books.
Professor Reuter is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). His main areas of interest
are process control in extractive metallurgy as well as associated environmental control; and system and design engineering. He then
moved to the University of Melbourne as Professor of Sustainable Technology where he maintains a link as a Professional Fellow.
Professor Paul Sharratt holds a Chair in Sustainable Processing at the University of Manchester, researching
in sustainable development, process design and reaction engineering. After a UMIST PhD he joined ICI as a process engineer. He returned
to Manchester in 1991, working in environmental technology. He is a director of BRITEST Limited. He also holds an Honorary Chair in the
Universidad Major de San Marcos in Lima, and is a fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Mr Bob Skelton graduated in chemical engineering from Kings College at Durham University in 1960 and
joined the engineering contracting industry where he worked for about 30 years. In 1990 he was appointed by the University of Cambridge
as the Nuclear Energy Teaching Fellow with responsibility for teaching safety and design in chemical engineering. He retired in 2005
but continues some teaching and research and is a member of the IChemE Register of Safety Specialists.
Professor Po-Lock Yue was educated in chemical engineering at McGill University. In 1993, he joined the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as the Founding Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering where he currently holds
a Chair Professorship. He was also the Founding Director of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program. Prior to moving to Hong
Kong, Po-Lock was with the University of Bath. His research interests focus on clean technology, innovative waste treatment and applications
of nanotechnology in environmental protection. He offers special courses as a Guest Professor in a number of universities in China.
Professor Akiyoshi Sakoda obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering from the University of
Tokyo in 1984. He then worked for three years at the Science University of Tokyo as a Research Associate mainly working on drinking water
treatments. He then spent two years at the University of Michigan as a Research Fellow for bioseparations. Since 1989, he has been at
the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo. His current research activities include fundamentals and applications
of adsorption processes, adsorptive water treatments and development of systems and technologies for biomass utilization.
Professor Tom Stephenson is Head of the School of Applied Sciences at Cranfield University, one of
Cranfield's five schools. He is a graduate in biochemistry from the University of York, has a PhD in civil engineering from Imperial
College London and is a Chartered Chemical Engineer. He is an expert in water and effluent treatment, in particular biological processes.
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