Plenaries

 

 

Philippe Boisseau is President of Total’s Gas & Power business. He graduated from France’s Ecole Polytechnique and is an engineer in the Corps des Mines. He began his career in 1986, serving in a variety of French government ministries before joining the staff of the Minister of Defense in 1993. Mr. Boisseau came to Total in 1995 as Crude Oil Supply Manager, Total Refining and Marketing, based in Denver, Colorado. He served as Products Trading Manager, Europe in the Refining Division from 1997 to 1998, when he became Strategic Planning Manager for Argentina in the Exploration & Production division.

He was appointed General Manager of Total Austral, the Group’s Argentine subsidiary, in 1999. He was President of Total Exploration & Production’s operations in the Middle East between 2002 and 2006 and he has been a member of the Management Committee since January 2005.

 

 

Greg Lewin, President, Shell Global Solutions International BV; Executive Vice President, Shell Downstream.

Greg Lewin was appointed President of Shell Global Solutions in 2003. Shell Global Solutions is one of Shell's technology focussed organisations. It provides business and operational consultancy, technical services, licensed technologies and research and development expertise to the energy and processing industries worldwide.

Born in Mildura, Australia, he graduated in Chemical Engineering from Melbourne University before joining Shell in 1975. He undertook an MBA at Melbourne University, graduating in 1984. He subsequently worked in Shell Australia’s retail and manufacturing businesses before joining the East and Australasian Regional Organisation in London, where he worked specifically on Japan and Korea.

For three years from 1992, Greg was Manufacturing and Supply Director for Norske Shell, based in Stavanger, Norway. In 1995, he took up a management position in The Hague in the Netherlands, and during the transformation of the Shell Group’s Manufacturing and Marketing technical, advisory and research organisations into Shell Global Solutions, became Vice President responsible for Services, Consulting and Business Development. Greg is a Fellow and a Past President of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (2006-7).

 

 

Dr. Hong Dingyi holds a chemical Dr. Degree from University Hamburg, Germany, in 1991, and before graduated from Beijing Technology University, Department of chemical engineering, China. Dr. Hong has a wide experience in petrochemical production and technology R&D, worked as Director of Research Institute of Yanshan Petrochemical Complex, Sinopec, Vice President of Daqing Petrochemical Complex, Sinopec, Director of Science and Technology Development Department, Sinopec; presently, he is Director of the General Office of the Science & Technology Consulting Committee, Sinopec, and Secretary General of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China(CIESC).

 

 

Jean-Pierre Brunelle graduated in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Nationale des Pétroles & Moteurs in Paris and made a thesis in Heterogeneous Catalysis at the French Institute of Petroleum. He spent all his career in R&D at Rhodia . He took several RD Director positions during the last twenty years in the fields of Organic Intermediates & Inorganic Specialties and has been appointed Process Innovation Director of Rhodia in 2006.

Rhodia is an international chemical company resolutely committed to sustainable development. Leader in its businesses, the Group aims to improve its customers’ performance through the pursuit of operational excellence and its ability to innovate. Structured around six Enterprises, Rhodia is the partner of major players in the automotive, tire, electronics, perfume, health & beauty and home care markets. The Group employs around 15,500 people worldwide and generated sales of €5.1 billion in 2007. Rhodia is listed on Euronext Paris.

 

 

W. Mark Saltzman’s research interests include drug delivery to the brain, materials for vaccine delivery, and tissue engineering; he has published over 150 research papers, 3 books, 2 edited books, and 10 patents in these fields. He graduated with distinction from Iowa State University, in 1981with a B.S. in chemical engineering and pursued this graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned an M.S. in chemical engineering in 1984 and a Ph.D. in medical engineering in 1987. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 1987 as assistant professor of chemical engineering and was promoted to professor in 1995. In 1996, he became professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University and, in 2001, he was named the first holder of the BP Amoco/H. Laurance Fuller Chair in Chemical Engineering.

In 2002, he moved to Yale University as the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, in July of 2002 and, in 2003, he became the first chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Saltzman’s many honors and awards include: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1990); Allan C. Davis Medal as Maryland's Outstanding Young Engineer (1995); the Controlled Release Society Young Investigator Award (1996); fellow of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineers (1997); Professional Progress in Engineering Award from Iowa State University (2000); Britton Chance Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (2000); and Distinguished Lecturer of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2004).

 

 

Gerhard Kreysa, Prof. Dr., is Chief Executive of DECHEMA e.V., The Society of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

He studied Chemistry at the University of Dresden and received his PhD in 1970. He is a prominent figure in the international community with a number of outstanding contributions in the field of Technical Chemistry and Electrochemistry. For example, he developed new concepts for the utilization of electrochemical "packed bed" and "fluidized bed" reactors, which became prominent as the "enViro-cell" for waste water treatment in the process industry. His leading role in the clarification of the "cold fusion" affaire in 1989 should also be mentioned.

In 1985 he was appointed Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Dortmund. His scientific career is marked by a number of awards. To mention few of them, he was recipient of the Chemviron Award in 1980, the MAX-Buchner-Research-Award of DECHEMA and the Castner Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1994, the Wilhelm Ostwald Medal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig in 2006. He obtained many distinctions, e.g., Honorary Doctor of Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) in 1999, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm in 2003, Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 2003, and Honorary Member of the Czech Society of Chemical Engineering in 2006.

Despite the numerous duties and responsibilities of his senior management position, he remains a lively interest in the further development of science and engineering and is highly regarded as an advisor on national and international issues.

 

 

Professor David George Wood spent much of his career at the University of Melbourne where he was Head of the Chemical Engineering Department and in latter years Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

His major research interests have been in the field of mineral processing having developed a new process for “cleaning” coal and spent pot-lining for Aluminium smelters. He has also had a major interest in developments in chemical engineering education.

Professor Wood has made a major contribution in establishing the IChemE in Australia in its current form. He has served as an international member of the Asian Pacific Chemical Engineering Confederation. In 2001 he was the Chair of the very successful 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Melbourne. At this Congress the World Chemical Engineering Council (WCEC) was established and today Professor Wood is the Chair of the Executive of the WCEC.

Professor Wood has given plenary lectures on Chemical Engineering Education in many countries. He is now working with nine chemical engineering departments in China to assist with modernisation of the undergraduate programs for IChemE accreditation. He has recently been appointed as an Honorary Professor at Tianjin University in North East China.

 

 

Professor Jackie Y. Ying received her degrees in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union (B.E., 1987) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 2001). She then pursued research in nanocrystalline materials with Prof. Herbert Gleiter at the Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany. She has been on the Chemical Engineering faculty at MIT since 1992, and was promoted to Professor in 2001. She is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore. IBN is a national research institute, which has grown to over 190 research staff and students under her leadership.

Prof. Ying has authored over 220 articles on nanostructured materials for applications ranging from the synthesis of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals, the efficient use of energy, the control of environmental pollution, the targeted delivery of drugs and proteins, to the generation of biomimetic implants and tissue scaffolds.

Prof. Ying's research awards, include the American Ceramic Society Ross C. Purdy Award for the most valuable contribution to the ceramic technical literature, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Royal Academy of Engineering ICI Faculty Fellowship, American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry, Technology Review Inaugural TR100 Young Innovator Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Allan P. Colburn Award for excellence in publications, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and Chemical Engineering Science Peter V. Danckwerts Lectureship. She was elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina in 2005, and named as one of the "One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era" by AIChE in its Centennial Celebration. Prof. Ying is the Editor-in-Chief of Nano Today, and has served on the editorial boards of 23 journals. She has over 110 patents issued or pending, and has served on the Advisory Boards of 6 start-up companies and 1 venture capital fund.