Advances in Chemical Engineering & Technology

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 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

Fawzi Banat is a Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute (PI). After obtaining his chemical engineering Doctorate at McGill University, Canada, in 1995, he taught at several universities before joining the PI in 2011. He has published over 120 papers in reputed journals and served in many scientific committees.

Fundamentals of multi-component mass transfer, membrane separations applied to desalination and wastewater treatment, renewable energy and gas treatment.

Prof. Lingai Luo is the first class research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratoire de Thermocinétique de Nantes (LTN), France. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in thermal engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and her Ph.D. degree in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. Her previous academic appointments include Assistant Professor at INPL, Associate Professor at University of Nancy I, and later at INPL. From 2003 until 2012 she was a Full Professor at University of Savoie, France. From 2007 to 2012, she was the director of Laboratory of design optimization and environmental engineering (LOCIE) of CNRS and University of Savoie. She was the cofounder and coordinator of Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering (1998–2006) and was the head of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (2008-2013) of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was the scientific director of French National Research Agency (ANR)’s energy department. She is also an invited professor at 5 Chinese universities/institutions, and Leuphana University at Lüneburg, Germany. Professor Lingai Luo has published and presented extensively, contributing more than 100 journal articles, one book and more than 120 international conference papers (29 as invited speaker).

Prof. Luo is mainly engaged in the intensification of heat and mass transfer and shape optimization in different energy components, systems and processes. Her research covers a wide range of topics in thermal, process and energy engineering, including combustion in fluidized bed, energy balance analysis of industries, solar refrigeration machines, adsorption and absorption processes, thermoelectric heat pumps or energy for buildings. More recently, her research activities focus on a fundamental strategy based on thermodynamic analysis, transfers intensification and energy systems optimization.

Dr. Davis L. Ford is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, and a Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. He is practicing environmental engineer with over forty-five years of experience in the field. In addition, he serves on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin as an adjunct professor, has published more than one hundred technical papers, has co-authored or contributed to ten textbooks, and written two biographies and co-authored one children’s book. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in countries of Europe, South America and Asia. Ford received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University and his master and doctorate degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of both Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M. Ford was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has served as president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and chairman of the Academy Ethics Committee. His honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon. Ford serves on the Board of a publicly-owned oil and exploration company (CWEI, NASDAQ) and the Board of the Texas A&M University Press.

He is interested in Chemical, Petroleum & environmental issues & especially in environmental researches he got over forty-five years of experience in the field.

Dr. Mohammad Javad Parnian is currently a researcher at the University of Calgary. He obtained his Ph. D in Chemical Engineering at Chemical Engineering Department of IUST. He previously was a researcher at Center for Fuel Cell and Batteries, University of Delaware. He published different research works in high-quality international research journals and different international conferences.

His research fields are electrochemical energy conversion and storage, membrane engineering, catalyst engineering, renewable energy, and separation process.

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

Fawzi Banat is a Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute (PI). After obtaining his chemical engineering Doctorate at McGill University, Canada, in 1995, he taught at several universities before joining the PI in 2011. He has published over 120 papers in reputed journals and served in many scientific committees.

fundamentals of multi-component mass transfer, membrane separations applied to desalination and wastewater treatment, renewable energy and gas treatment.

Prof. Lingai Luo is the first class research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratoire de Thermocinétique de Nantes (LTN), France. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in thermal engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and her Ph.D. degree in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. Her previous academic appointments include Assistant Professor at INPL, Associate Professor at University of Nancy I, and later at INPL. From 2003 until 2012 she was a Full Professor at University of Savoie, France. From 2007 to 2012, she was the director of Laboratory of design optimization and environmental engineering (LOCIE) of CNRS and University of Savoie. She was the cofounder and coordinator of Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering (1998–2006) and was the head of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (2008-2013) of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was the scientific director of French National Research Agency (ANR)’s energy department. She is also an invited professor at 5 Chinese universities/institutions, and Leuphana University at Lüneburg, Germany. Professor Lingai Luo has published and presented extensively, contributing more than 100 journal articles, one book and more than 120 international conference papers (29 as invited speaker).

Prof. Luo is mainly engaged in the intensification of heat and mass transfer and shape optimization in different energy components, systems and processes. Her research covers a wide range of topics in thermal, process and energy engineering, including combustion in fluidized bed, energy balance analysis of industries, solar refrigeration machines, adsorption and absorption processes, thermoelectric heat pumps or energy for buildings. More recently, her research activities focus on a fundamental strategy based on thermodynamic analysis, transfers intensification and energy systems optimization.

Dr. Makhmud Kharun serves as an academician since September 2001. At the past, he served as a Civil Engineer in verious construction projects in Singapore and Malaysia. He completed his Master of Science in Civil Engineering in 1992, and received his PhD in 2005 from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Construction Materials, Construction Technology, Structural Engineering etc. are the main fields of his research. He has published more than 30 research papers published in peer reviewed international journals. He is reviewer of some renowned Scopus and Web of Science indexed international journals published by Springer, Elsevier etc.

The aim of the study is to identify the features of the influence of petroleum products with different viscosity on the physical and mechanical properties of concrete and to offer a quantitative assessment of the reliability of load-bearing structures on the index of mechanical safety.

Dr. Davis L. Ford is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, and a Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. He is practicing environmental engineer with over forty-five years of experience in the field. In addition, he serves on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin as an adjunct professor, has published more than one hundred technical papers, has co-authored or contributed to ten textbooks, and written two biographies and co-authored one children’s book. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in countries of Europe, South America and Asia. Ford received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University and his master and doctorate degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of both Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M. Ford was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has served as president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and chairman of the Academy Ethics Committee. His honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon. Ford serves on the Board of a publicly-owned oil and exploration company (CWEI, NASDAQ) and the Board of the Texas A&M University Press.

He is interested in Chemical, Petroleum & environmental issues & especially in environmental researches he got over forty-five years of experience in the field.

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 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. 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.