Plenary Speakers
Blaz Likozar
National Institute of Chemistry
Slovenia
Blaz Likozar
National Institute of ChemistrySlovenia
Biography
Prof. BlaZ Likozar is a head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), leading the programme “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, as well as numerous research projects (15 H2020 / 50 in Horizon Europe alone). His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena and chemical kinetics. He worked at the University of Delaware in 2014–2015 as a Fulbright Program researcher. He has authored >400 articles, was cited >10000 times, having a h-index of 61. He is also involved in many industrial projects, amongst others, with TotalEnergies, Evonik Industries, UPM, Novartis, Carbon Recycling International… He is a recipient of Pregl and Zois awards.
Speech Title
Multi-scale Modelling-supported 3D Printing in Catalysis
Vladimir Chigrinov
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
Vladimir Chigrinov
Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong
Biography
Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 333 journal papers, more than 718 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 50 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018
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Lawrence Murr
University of Texas
USA
Lawrence Murr
University of TexasUSA
Biography
Lawrence Murr currently works at the Department of Metallurgical ,Materials Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering,University of Texas at El Paso.; W. M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation, University of Texas at El Paso. Lawrence does research in Bioengineering, Materials Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering. Their current project is '3D printing/additive manufacturing; implant studies/trials
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