Stankiewicz, Andrzej
Full Professor at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, former Chair of Process Intensification at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and former Director of TU Delft Process Technology Institute. With more than 40 years of industrial and academic research experience he is author of numerous scientific publications on process intensification, chemical reaction engineering and industrial catalysis. He is principal author and co-editor of the world’s first book on Process Intensification.
Prof. Stankiewicz is Editor-in-Chief of Chemical and Process Engineering: New Frontiers (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Series Editor of the Green Chemistry Books Series (Royal Society of Chemistry). He was founder and first Chairman of the Working Party on Process Intensification at the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He was also founder and Chairman the Board of the European Process Intensification Centre (EUROPIC).
Current research interests of Prof. Stankiewicz focus on intensification of catalytic processes using renewable electricity-based energy fields. The research in that area has brought him prestigious Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council.
Li, Chao-Jun
Chao-Jun Li received his B.S. at Zhengzhou University (1983), M.S. at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (1988) and Ph.D. at McGill University (1992, with T. H. Chan and D. N. Harpp). After an NSERC Postdoctoral research term with B. M. Trost at Stanford University, he became Assistant Professor (1994), Associate Professor (1998), and Full Professor (2000-2003) at Tulane University. In 2003, he became a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Organic/Green Chemistry and a Professor of Chemistry at McGill University in Canada. Currently, he serves as the Co-Chair (with Bernard West) of the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Network. His current research efforts are focused on developing innovative and fundamentally new organic reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and have high synthetic efficiency.
Seidl, Peter
Peter Rudolf Seidl - Professor, Graduate Program on Technology of Chemical and Biochemical Processes, EQ/UFRJ (TPQB/EQ/UFRJ), and responsible for the establishment of the Brazilian Green Chemical School (EBQV). Thesis advisor and project coordinator in physical organic chemistry applied to chemical process areas such as petroleum, pharmaceuticals, mineral technology, etc., publishing widely in these areas and holding an international patent on the use of cashew wastes as a raw material. Former President of the Brazilian Chemical Association (ABQ) and active in the organization of meetings and workshops, such as the 1st International Conference on Chemistry of the Amazon (held shortly after Rio 92) and, more recently, the 1st Workshop on Asphaltenes Characterization and Properties held in 2009 and Biorefineries 2010 Recent Advances and New Challenges, held last November.
Chao-Jun Li received his B.S. at Zhengzhou University (1983), M.S. at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (1988) and Ph.D. at McGill University (1992, with T. H. Chan and D. N. Harpp). After an NSERC Postdoctoral research term with B. M. Trost at Stanford University, he became Assistant Professor (1994), Associate Professor (1998), and Full Professor (2000-2003) at Tulane University. In 2003, he became a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Organic/Green Chemistry and a Professor of Chemistry at McGill University in Canada. Currently, he serves as the Co-Chair (with Bernard West) of the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Network. His current research efforts are focused on developing innovative and fundamentally new organic reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and have high synthetic efficiency. Professor Li is currently US Associate editor of the RSC Journal Green Chemistry