Prof.  Donato Alexandre Gomes Aranda

Chemical and Biochemical Processes Engineering (EPQB), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-909, Brazil.

Research Interests: biomass; biofuel production; biomass conversion; lignocellulosic conversion; hydrolysis; biodiesel production; ethanol production; green technology; renewable energy technologies; pyrolysis.

Prof.  Néstor Escalona Burgos

• 1. Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Bioprocesos, Escuela de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.
• 2. Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química y de Farmacia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.

Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; characterization of materials; valorization of biomass derivatives; production of hydrogen from biomass derivatives.

Prof.  Nico Fischer

Catalysis Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.

Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; Fischer-Tropsch; synthesis gas chemistry; materials characterization; In situ characterization; CO2 activation/utilization.

Prof.  Gil Garnier

Bioresource Processing Research Institute of Australia (BioPRIA), Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.

Research Interests: surface, colloids and interfacial phenomena; polymer physics; biomedical applications and biodiagnostics; nanocellulose materials and processing; advanced polysaccharide materials (hydrogels, nanofilms, composites); wood polymers and their derivatives; paper science and engineering; biorefinery, green chemistry and sustainable processes; nanotechnology; advanced material, thin films and interface characterization; functional paper and bioactive paper.

Prof.  Volker Hessel

School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.

Research Interests: bioprocessing; bioproduction and bioproducts; chemical engineering design; fertilisers and agrochemicals; industrial chemistry; manufacturing processes and technologies; medicinal and biomolecular chemistry; organic chemistry; organic green chemistry; sustainability accounting and reporting.

Prof.  Tatiana Klimova

Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico.

Research Interests: nanostructured materials; catalytic nanoparticles; hydrodesulfurization; hydrodeoxygenation; biofuels; photocatalysis.

Prof.  Blaž Likozar

Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), Hajdrihova 19, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysis materials; modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics; transport phenomena and chemical kinetics.

Prof.  Piyasan Praserthdam

Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.

Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; catalyst deactivation; metallocene.

Prof.  Vincenzo Russo

Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia, IT-80126 Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: reaction engineering; kinetics; catalysis; reactor design and modeling; adsorption.

Dr.  Irina L. Simakova

Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering (TKR), Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre (PCC), Åbo Akademi University, Turku-Åbo FI-20500, Finland.

Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysts; nanocatalysts and catalytic processes; kinetics and reaction mechanism.

Prof.  Chunshan Song

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin NT 999077, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; chemicals and fuels; desulfurization; chemical engineering; CO2 capture; CO2 conversion; clean energy.

Prof.  Akshat Tanksale

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.

Research Interests: syngas conversion; CO2 utilisation; nanomaterials; heterogeneous catalysis; biofuels and biochemicals; green chemistry; catalytic and enzymatic depolymerisation of biomass; hydrogen production and storage; photocatalysis for water splitting and purification.