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John E. Pace, PE, is the Owner and Principal of Chemical Process Solutions PLLC, specializing in process development and process design services for the chemicals and plastics industries. He received his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a registered professional engineer in West Virginia, Ohio, and Michigan. He has forty-five years of experience in chemicals and plastics process development, working for Dow-Badische, Borg Warner Chemicals, General Electric Plastics, and SABIC, before retiring in 2014 as a SABIC Research Fellow.Read more
Dr. Brendan Mack is currently a Senior Research Investigator in the Development Engineering group of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Mack received his PhD in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied new drug delivery modalities under Mark E. Davis. Dr. Mack’s current work focuses on small molecule pharmaceutical process development, where his area of focus is using statistical experimental design, data visualization, quantitative data analysis, and predictive modeling to drive rapid decision making....Read more
Dr. Clara Gomez is an Engineer Scientist at Coanda Research and Development Corporation in Vancouver, BC. Where she leads the Mixing and Tailings technical teams. She holds a MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. With over 12 years' experience in applied and academic mixing research, Clara is a specialist in the analysis of complex non-Newtonian fluids mixing problems, industrial mixer designs and scale-up from laboratory to field. She is the current Vice President of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) where she also serves on the education...Read more
Jason Giacomelli is a Research and Development Engineer at Philadelphia Mixing Solutions Ltd. where he is responsible for running pilot-scale experimental programs for both internal product development and process development on behalf of customers. He also runs computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models to support these programs.
He is a Member of AIChE and works with the local chapter to help with Community Outreach programs such as the Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Festival in Washington DC. Jason has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rowan University and is...Read more
Mr. Gadkari is a Program Manager at Battelle with over 25 years of diverse experience in development, transfer, commercialization, and integration of sustainable and innovative industrial products and process technologies for clients in the United States and Asia. Mr. Gadkari specializes in assessing business value of technology insertion initiatives and helps clients integrate innovative technology solutions to improve productivity and reduce environmental and energy footprint of their products and industrial processes. Since January 1999, Mr. Gadkari had provided technical leadership and...Read more
Dr. Wincure has dedicated his career to understanding, developing, and explaining process modeling and software tools for chemical engineering. Prior to joining ProSim, Inc. as a Technical Sales Engineer, he worked in software development for five years during the “internet boom” in Toronto, Canada, and then for five years at Heat Transfer Research Inc (HTRI) in Texas. He has both a PhD and Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, where he also completed two separate Bachelor’s degrees: one in Chemical Engineering, and the other in Biology. As...Read more
Pieter Schmal is a Principal Application Engineer at PSE and the Head of PSE Academic. He is based in PSE’s NJ office in the US. He has an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the TU Delft in The Netherlands on large-scale dynamic modelling. He has over 20 years of modelling experience. After his Ph.D. he did 2 post-docs on heat-integrated distillation control and optimization with a visit to NTNU in Norway. He had his own consulting company from 1998-2008 that focused on commercializing a new separation technique. In 2008 Pieter joined PSE as a consultant in London, UK. In...Read more
