2^nd International Conference on
Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering

M. R. Riazi has more than 30 years of global teaching and research experience in both academia and industry working on projects related to applied thermodynamics, transport processes, phase behavior, modeling and simulation, oil and gas production and processing, oil spill behavior, coal and fuel processing, biofuels processing and properties, flow assurance, polymer synthesis, and renewable energy. He received both Ph.D. and MSc degrees in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University where he also worked as a faculty member in chemical engineering with projects sponsored by API and US DOE. He is currently the managing director of an oil & gas firm based in Canada and a director of the fuels division of AIChE and chair of the Fuels and Petrochemical Division (FPD) at the AIChE Annual Meetings. He is conducting fuel-related courses for ASTM International. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of IJOGCT journal and has extensive publications including 7 books and 10 book chapters. He has received a Diploma of Honor from the American Petroleum Engineering Society for outstanding services to the petroleum industry, four teachings, and research awards, and is an elected fellow of AIChE. He is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Applied Thermodynamics, Transport processes, Phase behavior, Modeling and Simulation, Oil and Gas production and processing, Oil spill behavior, Coal and fuel processing, Biofuels processing and properties, Flow assurance, Polymer synthesis and Renewable energy

Marta Litter has a doctorate in Chemistry (Buenos Aires University, Argentina), with postdoctoral studies at the University of Arizona, USA. She is a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council and a Full Professor and Consultant at the National University of San Martín (Argentina). She has more than 250 publications in journals, books, and book chapters. She received the Mercosur Prize (2006 and 2011), the Charreau Prize for Regional Scientific-Technological Cooperation, the Prize for Latin American Women in Chemistry (2021), and the Houssay Prize (2022). She was designated pioneer in photocatalysis in Argentina and is a Member of TWAS, ACAL, and the Argentine Academy of Environmental Sciences.

Chemistry, Photo Catalysis, Environmental Sciences

Nikolaos C. Kokkinos is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the School of Science of the International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece. He is the Program Director of MSc in Oil and Gas Technology at IHU. He is in charge of Process Simulation in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Laboratory at IHU; and he holds a researcher position in the Division of Petroleum Forensic Fingerprinting (PFF) at Hephaestus Advanced Laboratory. Dr Kokkinos has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. His research interests among others include applied catalysis and process modeling and simulation of complex substances.

Chemistry, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Forensic Science, Applied catalysis, and process modeling and simulation of complex substances.

Anne M. Gaffney is the Chief Science Officer of Idaho National Laboratory and a Distinguished National Lab Fellow (2014 – present). She has thirty-four years of experience working in the industry inventing and commercializing new technologies for major chemical manufacturing companies including Koch Industries, Lummus Technology, Dow, Dupont, and ARCO Chemical Company. She has authored 155 publications and 256 patents. Dr. Gaffney is also a distinguished Joint Appointment Fellow at the University of South Carolina (2018 – present) where she is the Technical Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis. Some of her recent awards include the 2019 American Chemical Society, Energy & Fuels, Distinguished Researcher Award in Petroleum Chemistry; the 2015 Eugene J. Houdry Award of the North American Catalysis Society; the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Women in Science Inductee, 2014; and the American Chemical Society, Industrial Chemistry Award, 2013. Dr. Gaffney received her BA in chemistry and mathematics from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from the University of Delaware.

Chemistry, Rational Catalyst Synthesis, Chemical products, Energy & Fuels, Petroleum Chemistry, Physical organic chemistry

Osman Adiguzel graduated from the Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received a Ph.D.- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey in Solid State Physics. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post-doctoral research scientist from 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as a research assistant, from 1975-80, at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He shifted to Firat University in 1980 and became a professor in 1996, and He has already been working as a professor. He published over 50 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia at the international and national levels as a participant, invited speaker, or keynote speaker with contributions of oral or poster. He served as the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in the last three years (2014 - 2016) over 20 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by the South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), and other institutes and companies. He joined as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair at 6 conferences held in the first half of 2017. Dr. Adiguzel served as his directorate of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University from 1999-2004. He supervised 5 Ph.D.- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also a Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of the significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates the cooperation of his group and interest in the Powder Diffraction File.

Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction, and crystallography.

T. Joseph Sahaya Anand is an expatriate staff who was born in India on July 30, 1975. As a Physics graduate who completed his UG, PG, and M.Phil in Physics from St. Joseph’s College, affiliated with Bharathidasan University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Hong Kong in 2004. The post doctoral fellowship was awarded by Tohoku University, Sendai Japan during 2004–2005. He is currently a Professor of Materials Science in the Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology. His research interests are concerned with materials synthesis and characterization of Transition Metal Chalcogenides and Intermetallic Aluminides for Electronic / Semiconductor Applications. Published about 8 books and numerous high-impact publications in reputed Journals. He is an active member of the Institute of Materials Malaysia (IMM), the Institute of Physics, Malaysia, the Malaysia Solid State Science Forum, and the International Electrochemical Society.

GREEN TECHNOLOGY, MOBILE TECHNOLOGY, SMART MATERIALS, SMART VEHICLE, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Maged El-Kemary, Professor and a senior group leader at Institute of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. He was nominated the President of Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt (from 2011 to 2019). He developed the University and established 13 New Faculties and Research Institutes as well as two medical hospitals and provided them with advanced Research facilities. Before that, he was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2010 and vice-Dean in 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (1991). he joined the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako, Japan, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan. He had secured several innovation awards and also research grants. His research interests are material science and sensors development

Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Material Science, Sensors development

Karl-Heinz Gresslehner was born on 27.03.1948 in Linz / Austria and completed his PhD in the field of semiconductor physics in 1981 at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. He was working more then 10 years in the industry (semiconductor industry, in environmental protection at the state government Upper Austria) and 24 years as a teacher at a school for higher technical education (HTL). Since 2016 he is a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Upper Austria and was the head of the research group ‘Thermoelectricity’ whereby these research activities were ended on 28.02.2021 by the Dean of the FH Wels Dr. Michael Rabl. Currently, he is a Guest-Professor / Senior researcher at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz / Austria (Center for Surface and Nanoanalytics) researching in the field of spectroscopic ellipsometry on semiconductors and industrial applications of thermoelectricity

Spectroscopic ellipsometry on semiconductors and industrial applications of thermoelectricity

Dr. Laura Gabriela SARBU is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. She received a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry in 2015. During the Ph.D. program she joined several times the Prof. dr. Henning Hopf research team in TU Braunschweig – Germany. She has more than 45 publications in peer-review journals and published 4 books. Also, is editorial board member in several journals such as Advance in Medical and Clinical Research, Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Recerca, Chemical Glycobiology Journal, International Journal Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences - Green Chemistry, Journal of Clinical Research and Reports, Journal of Molecular Biology and Drug Design, International Journal of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy

Chemistry, Petrochemistry, Pharmacology

Gustaaf Schoukens was a professor of polymer technology at the Ghent University (Belgium), Faculty of Engineering, and retired on October 1, 2014. He received his degree in Chemical Engineering from the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) in 1971 where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1978. The subject of his Ph.D. research was “Non-linear viscoelastic behavior of dispersions”. He worked as a senior researcher from 1978 till 2004 in the private industry (Solvay; Central Research Laboratory) in the field of polymerization and polymer processing. In 1994 he obtained the part-time position of lecturer at Ghent University, teaching “polymer processing”. In 2004 he obtained the full-time position of professor at Ghent University teaching all courses concerning polymer technology, including processing and polymerization processes. He is also involved in the courses concerning “environment and sustainable development” in general and teaching the course of “rational use of materials” in particular. Polymer technology in general and polymer processing, including synthetic and biopolymers, in particular, are the main leads in his research program and its publications. The main research topics are now the development of artificial turf for sports applications and the development of biopolymers based on chitin or chitosan with biomedical properties. More recent research is the study of nanostructures, especially nanoparticles obtained by reaction engineering. These nanoparticles are already used in large quantities for the coating of paper and paperboard. I am an expert in the production of monofilaments for artificial sports applications and founded ERCAT (European Research Centre for Artificial Turf).

Polymer Technology, Chemical Engineering, Nanotechnology

Snezana Sevic is a process chemistry specialist at PM Lucas Enterprises. She holds BSc, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the Technological Faculty, University of Novi Sad. Service has 37 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Her main responsibilities include oil and gas-gas condensate treatment process modeling, simulation and optimization, diagnosis of problems resulting from fluid properties; conducting risk analyses, and recommending management and monitoring programs to handle flow assurance issues. Before joining PML, she worked at NIS-GaspromNeft, and Quimica Apollo, and was involved in more than 50 projects in Serbia, Mexico, Kazakhstan, and Russia. She has authored more than 50 papers and a book: Influence of Oilfield Waters on Gas and Oil Production and Transport, and supervised several graduates, master's, and doctoral theses. She has been involved in the SPE E-Mentoring program and serves as the SPE Distinguish Lecturer for the 2018-2019 season.

Oil and gas-gas condensate treatment process modeling, simulation and optimization, diagnosis of problems resulting from fluid properties

Professor Cleveland M. Jones was born in Bahia, Brazil, and graduated in Physics and Economics from Cornell University (USA). He obtained his post-graduate degree in Oil and Gas Engineering, as well as his Masters (Basin Analysis) and Doctoral (MEOR - Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery) degrees in Geology from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Prof. Jones has been an international consultant to the oil industry and is currently a researcher at INOG Member of the Geosciences Advisory Board of NXT Energy Solutions, Inc., of Canada. He publishes extensively on strategic concerns and technological developments in the energy industry. He has coordinated post-graduate courses and held teaching assignments at several educational institutions. He also coordinated an extensive Knowledge Management project focused on environmental and strategic aspects of the oil industry. He is Vice-President of INEB, an institute dedicated to promoting new economy businesses and sustainability, including non-seismic geophysical methods and other environmentally friendly initiatives.

New economy businesses and sustainability, including non-seismic geophysical methods and other environmentally friendly initiatives.