Invited Lectures
Ph.D. Filomena Barreiro
IPB and LSRE-IPB Bragança, Portugal
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB)
Filomena Barreiro has graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1990, at the Engineering School of the University of Porto (FEUP). In 2000, and also at FEUP, she obtained the Ph.D. She joined the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) in 1995 where she is Adjunct Professor at the Chemical and Biological Department (DTQB). Since 2000, she is a member of the research staff of the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering (LSRE). Her main research interests are synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials with special emphasis to polymeric materials from renewable resources.
Ph.D. Mary Lopretti, Uruguay
Laboratorio UdelaR, Uruguay
She currently is a researcher at the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and is a teacher of the Master of Biotechnology.
Ph.D. Redouane Borsali
CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble, France
CNRS Research Professor (DR1 –Director of Research 1st Class) • Director of Institute CARNOT “POLYNAT” – 5 laboratories in Grenoble (300 persons) • “Physico-Chemistry & Self-Assembly of Glycopolymer” Group Leader @ CERMAV (15 to 20 persons) • Director of CERMAV, Grenoble, CNRS Laboratory – 2007-2015 • Member (Appointed) of the CoNRS – Section 11 – 2008-2012 • Expert in Panels: ANR, AERES, 7 PCRD/H2020, NSF, FWO (Research Council Flanders), Czech Academy of Sciences, Brazilian Science Agencies: CNPq & Capes • Phd in Polymer Sciences earned from Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg (1988) • HDR/Priv. Doz Polymer Sciences earned from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (1992) • Post-doc: Max-Planck Institute MPI-P (Mainz), 2 years 1989-1990 • Visiting Professor at Stanford University (Chem. Depart. CA, USA) (2 years) 1997/98 • Visiting Scientist at IBM (Physics Dept, Almaden, San José, CA, USA) (1 year) 1996 • Polymer Physical-Chemistry Group Leader at LCPO, Bordeaux (2000-2006) • More than 220 peer-reviewed papers, 10 reviews and 4 edited book • More than 140 conferences (more than 60 International invited Conferences) • Supervisor of 15 Post-docs, supervisor or co-supervisor of 30 Phds • Organizer and Co-organizer of 13 International Meetings on Polymers and Colloids.
Ph.D. María Auad
Auburn University, USA
Polymer and Fiber Engineering,
Her research interests include polymer material science, polymer nanocomposites, flow behavior of polymers, control of microstructures & nanostructure in materials, self-assemblies, interpenetrating polymer networks, shape memory polymers, polymers for structural & biomedical applications.
Ph.D. Ignacio Moreno Villoslada
Universidad Austral de Chile
Laboratorio de Polímeros, Instituto de Ciencias Químicas, Facultad de Ciencias, VALDIVIA, CHILE.
Doctorado en Ciencias con mención en Química. Con estancia en prácticas y trabajos de investigación en diferentes centos de investigación en todo el mundo. Ha recibido premios y distinciones a lo largo de su carrera, entre ellos: Premio mejor presentación modalidad poster en VII Coloquio de Macromoléculas (CM-7), Termas de Catillo, Parral-Chile. 03-06 de Diciembre de 2014, “Geles de alginato de calcio como sensores de
cloro: modelamiento de su decoloración y sus posibles aplicaciones”. Docente académcico en universidades diferentes a UACH.
Ph.D. Catalina Ruiz Pérez
Universidad de La Laguna, Ciencia de materiales, Tenerife, España
Es miembro del Laboratorio de Rayos X y Materiales Moleculares (MATMOL) que tiene como objetivo la determinación estructural de monocristales mediante técnicas de difracción de rayos X, de neutrones y de sincrotón. Así como el diseño de nanomateriales e ingeniería de materiales multifuncionales. Pertenece al equipo de investigación del Proyecto Estructurante en Nanociencia, Nanotecnología y Materiales Avanzados (NANOMAC). Actualmente es Profesora Titular en el Departamento de Física Fundamental II de la Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife-España.
Ph.D. Fernando Langa de la Puente
Área de Química Orgánica, Facultad de CC. Ambientales y Bioquímica, España
Doctor en Química por la Universidad Complutense (1981). Ha sido investigador postdoctoral en la Universidad de Dundee (Gran Bretaña) durante 1985-87 y profesor visitante en las universidades de Orsay (Francia) en 1993 y UCLA (USA) en 1997. En 1991, se incorporó a la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), como Profesor Titular, donde es Catedrático desde 2002. Es actualmente director del Instituto de Nanociencia, nanotecnología y Materiales Moleculares de la UCLM y Presidente del Grupo especializado en Nanociencia y Materiales Moleculares de la Real Sociedad Española de Química. Miembro de la Real Sociedad Española de Química, de la American Chemical Society y de la Electrochemical Society. Es también coordinador de la UCLM del Máster y del Doctorado interuniversitarios en Nanociencia y Nanotecnología Molecular (Mención de Excelencia, BOE de 20/10/2011). Es autor de más de 140 trabajos de investigación y capítulos de libros. Coeditor del libro “Fullerenes: principles and applications”, editado en la serie Nanoscience & Nanotechnology de la Royal Society of Chemistry (2nd ed. 2012). Tiene actualmente un factor h= 30, habiendo recibido sus publicaciones más de 2500 citas.
Ph.D. Patricia Vázquez
Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias Aplicadas “Dr. Jorge J. Ronco” (CINDECA-CCT-CONICET), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Ph.D. in Chemistry in the University of San Luis (1992). She’s been a postdoctoral researcher in the Universita degli Studio di Bologna (Italy) and Lille University of Science and Technologyde (France), during 1994 and 1996. In 1995, she was incorporated to CONICET as Assistant researcher. She is responsible for the group of Advanced Materials for Catalytic and Biotechnological Applications, using the principles of Green Chemistry. Among her received awards stand the Designation as Member of the Green Chemistry Committee of the International Union on Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in July 2008; Distinction “Gdor. Enrique Tomás Cresto 2010”, awarded by the Honourable Senate of Argentina; Award from the Argentinian Foundation of Nanotechnology (FAN) to best work in Research with Nanoestructured Materials, in 2013; and the Distinction given by the Honourable Chamber of Deputies of Mendoza (Argentina) for the divulgation activities, 2014.
Author of more than 120 papers, 10 chapters of books, more than 300 presentations of congress and also editor of “Química Verde: la catálisis como pilar fundamental” (2014), doing various translations Portuguese-Spanish and Italian-Spanish in her expertise area, green chemistry.
Ph.D. Leslie Cizmas
Texas A&M University
Research Interests
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Occurrence and toxicity of drinking water contaminants
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Health effects of complex mixtures
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Chemical exposure assessment in underserved communities
Teaching Interests
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Environmental Toxicology
Awards:
Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health Award for
Excellence in Education and Teaching, Jan. 20, 2012.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Toxicology Training Grant
Fellowship, Sept., 2001-Aug., 2003.
Inducted into the Texas A&M Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi,
April, 2003.
George T. Edds Award, Outstanding Graduate Student in Toxicology, Texas
A&M University, May, 2001.
Inducted into the Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta, Feb.,
2001.
Ph.D. Virender K. Sharma
Texas A&M University
Environmental and Occupational Health
Chemistry and applications of ferrates (VI, V, and IV) (inactivation of virus, bacteria, and toxins in water and air and removal of emerging contaminants such as antibiotics, estrogens and toxic metals in water).
Formation, fate, and toxicity of silver and gold engineered and natural nanoparticles in aquatic environment.
Applications of ferrites to destroy toxins and pollutants under solar light.
Some Awards:
Certificate of Merit - Awarded by American Chemical Society (Division of Environmental Chemistry),
for co-authorship of the Oral Paper titled “Mechanism of the Formation of Silver Nanoparticles in the
Aquatic Environment” at 247 th National Meeting in Dallas, Texas, 2014
Excellence in Review Award – Environmental Science & Technology, 2012
Paper Review Award – Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, 2010
Faculty Excellence in Research Award – Florida Institute of Technology, 2008
Faculty of the Year Award – Awarded by Student Affiliation of the American Chemical Society, 2008
Outstanding Chemist Award – Orlando Section, American Chemical Society, 2006
Nomination - Florida Tech Faculty Excellence Research Award, 2006.
Nomination - Florida Tech Faculty Excellence Research Award, 2001.
Ph.D. Mirta Aranguren
Head of Ecomaterials Group, Institute of Research in Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA) Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Fac. Ingeniería, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Chemical Engineering. Vice Head of the Chemical Engineering Department, Univ. Nac. de Mar del Plata, Arg. Vice Head of INTEMA, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Awards: Iberoamerican Award to the Innovation and Enterpreneurship, (group award, 2010) for the project "Starch-starch nanocomposites for packaging" (Euros 20,000 and certification). John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, for career scientific achievements and to carry on "Nanocellulose reinforced smart polyurethanes" (colab. with ML Auad). IFS/King Baudouin Award for excellence in the scientific quality of the IFS (International Foundation for Sciences, Sweden) supported research project, 1996. International research grants: from TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy) in 1993 and 1998, and from IFS (International Foundation for Sciences, Sweden) research grants in 1992 and 1997.
Ph.D. Alessandro Gandini
São Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Brasil
The Chemical Modification of Natural Polymers by the Diels-Alder Reaction
IQSC/USP
For the past 56 years Alessandro Gandini has conducted research and taught chronologically in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Cuba, Canada, France, Brazil, and Portugal, and now in France and Brazil, with invited professorships in numerous other countries. Polymer chemistry, photochemistry, and surface science have dominated his professional interests, with a progressively growing involvement in polymers from renewable resources, a topic he was one of the first to investigate and promote.
Ph.D Arantxa Eceiza
Chemical Engineering in Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department
Arantxa Eceiza is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU) at the Engineering School of Gipuzkoa, Spain. She graduated in Chemistry from the UPV/EHU and carried out her PhD under the supervision of Prof I. Mondragon. She is since 1991, member of the ‘Materials + Technologies’ Research Group, founded by Prof I. Mondragon in 1987. Her research activities focus on polymeric (bio)(nano)materials, mainly polyurethanes (thermoplastic, thermoset, rigid-flexible foams, waterborne) and polymeric matrices based on renewable materials (starch, gelatins, hemicelluloses, biobased polymeric precursors) and their nanocomposites with cellulose nanofibres and nanocrystals, bacterial cellulose, chitin nanocrystals, inorganic and metallic nanoparticles and carbon nanostructures, and also polymer brushes and functional (bio)(nano)materials.
Ph.D. Aleksander Prociak
Polymer technology, Poland
Aleksander Prociak received his degree in Chemical Technology at the Cracow University of Technology in 1987 and started to work at Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology. Since 1989 he has carried out research in the field of polyurethane foams blowing with environmental friendly agents. He achieved his PhD and DSc respectively in 1997 and 2010. Currently, he is associate professor at Cracow University of Technology. He has 28 years of research experience in polymer technology, especially in different kind of polyurethanes (rigid and flexible foams, elastomers, coatings, adhesives) as well as in the application of environmentally friendly components to polyurethane systems (renewable raw materials, blowing agents, recycling products). Moreover, he has been involved in the works of the microwave irradiation application in the synthesis and recycling of polymer materials. His recent work has concerned the relationships between structure and properties of cellular materials, especially polyurethane foams modified with bio-based components.
Ph.D. Carolina Salvador-Morales
Bioengineering Department George Mason University
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Drug Delivery at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Langer Lab). Research areas: Drug delivery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital- Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts, Institute of Technology (Langer Lab).Research areas: Drug delivery and Immunoengineering.
Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry-Material Sciences at the University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom, Ph.D. Thesis entitled “Study of the interaction between immune system proteins and carbon nanotubes. Supported by a Fellowship from the British Council and the National Mexican Council for Science and Technology
Master of Science, Biochemistry at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. M.Sc. Thesis entitled “Study of the interaction between carbon nanotubes and proteins. Supported by a Fellowship from Media Lab Europe, the European Research Partner of MIT Media Lab Research Assistant at Media Lab Europe. Dynamics Interactions.
Bachelor of Science, Physics, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, B.Sc. Thesis entitled “Expression of P53 protein after exposure to ionizing radiation.
Ph.D. Ugis Cabulis
Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (IWC)
Polyurethane chemistry and technology; Polyurethanes from renewable raw materials; Cryogenic insulation.
Dr. Ugis Cabulis graduated Latvian State University and since 1986 he has worked in the polyurethane industry for more than 25 years, covering all aspects: from R&D to practical coordination of National and International research projects. Today he is Director of Institute and Head of Polymer Laboratory. IWC is a State R&D Institute providing research and testing in the field of wood and wood component chemistry and technology, polymer chemistry and biotechnology. In the field of polyurethane Polymer laboratory of IWC is a leading team in Baltic. This position has been achieved by a number of internal and nationally funded research programs, such as EU FP7 projects FORBIOPLAST (www.forbioplast.eu), BIOCORE (www.biocore-europe.org), BIOPURFIL and ERA-NET Matera project BBPM (www.bbpm.pk.edu.pl) There are 2 main topics of Polymer laboratory: polyurethanes from renewable raw materials and rigid polyurethane foams as cryogenic insulation.
Ph.D. Itza Mendoza-Sanchez
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Itza Mendoza-Sanchez received the B.S. degree in civil engineering from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2007. Her research interests include mathematical and experimental modeling of coupled physical, chemical and biological processes that affect transformation and transport of chemicals in soil and groundwater environments.
Ph.D. Andrea Lazzeri
Ingeniería Química del Departamento de Ingeniería Química y del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
Graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Pisa in 1982.
Joined the University of Pisa in 1984 as research associate, after serving in the Navy as junior officer at the Naval Academy in Livorno.
Completed his PhD at in 1991.
Lecturer of Materials Science since 1991.
Associate Professor of Materials Science since 2002.
Visiting scientist at MIT (February 1999 - March 2000).
Lecturer of Materials Science and Engineering for second year Chemical Engineering students.
Lecturer of Materials Science and Engineering for second year junior officers of the Naval Academy in Livorno.
Specialisations:
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Rubber toughening of plastics.
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Deformation and fracture of polymers blends and composites.
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Microwave CVI of ceramic matrix composites.
Ph.D. Oscar Rojas
Académico Escuela de Química, (UNA), Costa Rica
Licenciatura en Química Industrial de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica,Maestría del Free University de Berlín y un PhD de la Universidad de Postdam, Berlin, Alemania.
Ph.D Róger Moya
Instituto Tecnológic de Costa Rica
Investigador, adscrito al Centro de Investigación en Integración Bosque-Industria (CIIBI), de la Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal del TEC. Trebajos en la identificación de muestras de madera de especies forestales. Ha trabajado en proyectos de la investigación en el desarrollaron fue el de melina (Gmelina arborea), especie que actualmente es muy conocida tanto desde el punto de vista de material biológico, como de su industrialización. También desarrollaron estudios sobre teca (Tectona grandis), pero en menor escala. Trabajos en protección de la madera del ataque de insectos y hongos propios de nuestro clima.
Ph.D. Sergio Madrigal
National Center for Biotechnology Innnovations (CENIBiot), CeNAT, Costa Rica
Investigador asociado, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Investigación en el desarrollo de biomateriales basados en interacciones biopolímero-proteína y nanomedicinas conjugadas biopolímericas (01/2008 - 06/2009). - Desarrollo de parches de liberación controlada para la administración sistémica de fármacos. (Proyecto Fondo del sistema 2007 - Director) - Diseño de formas farmacéuticas innovadoras basadas en matrices biopoliméricas obtenidas a partir de biomasa. (Proyecto UNA - Director). - Obtención soportes compuestos para ingeniería de tejidos basados en matrices compuestas de quitosano y colágeno. (Proyecto FEES 2006 - Investigador). - Estudio a nanoescala de las interacciones entre vesículas lipídicas y superficies sólidas de biomateriales (Proyecto FEES 2008 - Director). - Producción de matrices poliméricas a partir de desechos de animales acuáticos para uso en ingeniería de tejidos (Proyecto FEES 2008 - Investigador). - Director y co-director de más de 10 trabajos de graduación a nivel de grado en Química Industrial, Farmacia y Biotecnología. - Premio Jóvenes Investigadores 2009 (Química-Física), Fundación General, Universidad de Valencia, España.