Scientific Committee

Clayton J. Radke University California, USA

Clayton (Clay) J. Radke is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Vision Science at the University California (Berkeley). Dr. Radke’s research focuses on interfacial and colloidal technologies. He has published over 300 research monographs, coauthored one book, three patents, and delivered over 800 technical papers. He has been awarded a number of national and International awards, including the Proctor & Gamble Colloid Chemistry Award of the American Chemistry Society in 2003, the John Franklin Carl Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineering in 2011, the Chemstations Research Lectureship Award of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2013, the University of Washington Alumnus of the Year in 2015, and the Ruben Medal of the International Society of Contact Lens Researchers in 2019. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015. Additionally, he won the physical sciences Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1993, the UCB campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994, the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructor in 2018, and the department teaching award 9 times. Dr. Radke has mentored over 90 graduate students and enumerable undergraduate research assistants.

Janet A.W. Elliott University of Alberta, Canada

Janet A. W. Elliott holds a Canada Research Chair in Thermodynamics, and is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta in Canada. Dr. Elliott obtained her B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science (Engineering Physics Option) and her M.A. Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics. She has served as a member of the Physical Sciences Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency, the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry Executive Committee, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organ Preservation Alliance. She has served on grant selection committees for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Elliott is a member of the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Langmuir, and Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. Dr. Elliott’s research has been recognized nationally in science and engineering by Fellowship in the Chemical Institute of Canada (2015), the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Syncrude Canada Innovation Award (2008), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Doctoral Prize (1998), the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers Young Engineer Achievement Award (2001), the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Young Explorer’s Prize (2002) and Time Magazine’s Canadians Who Define the New Frontiers of Science (2002). Dr. Elliott has also received provincial and University awards including the University of Alberta Teaching Unit Award (2004). As one student put it, “She could convince rocks to study thermodynamics.

Abeltif A mrane University of Rennes,France

  

Biography:
Abdeltif Amrane, full Professor at the University of Rennes 1. (Google Scholar: h-index: 41; citations: 6289 // Web of Science: h-index: 32; citations: 4106). Since approximately 13 years his research is entirely devoted to the development of combined processes for the removal of organic pollutants in effluent wastewaters and gaseous emissions within the CIP team. He has managed 9 PhD theses as thesis director and 3 are in progress; he has also co-managed 6 PhD theses and 2 co-management theses are in progress. He has been involved in several projects as a manager or a participant, as well in international collaborations (Algeria, Belgium, Hungary, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunisia). He has published about 330 international papers including 17 papers in press. He has also published 12 chapter books and has about 130 international and 20 national oral communications.

Stanislaw Dzwigaj Sorbonne University, France

Isabel Oller Alberola Solar Platform of Almería, Spain

Thomas J Webster Interstellar Therapeutics, United States

Sergey Suchkov R&D Director of the National Center for Human Photosynthesis, Mexico

David MacMillan University of California, Berkeley

Morten P. Meldal Technical University of Denmark

Alexey Ekimov The Vavilov State Optical Institute Saint Petersburg, Russia