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Masayuki Horio

Professor Masayuki Horio has long been a leading researcher in both theoretical fundamentals and applications of Fluidization Engineering, which is one of the multidisciplinary sub areas of Chemical Engineering providing a key innovation principle, ‘fluidization’, in catalytic cracking, solid fuel combustion/gasification, catalytic process for chemical feed-stocks, gas phase polymerization, silicon production, waste incineration and/or drug design, having a strong relationship with fluid mechanics, particle/powder technology and reaction/reactor engineering.

He has quite wide R&...Read more

Alberto Di Renzo

Alberto Di Renzo graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2000 and earned a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering in 2004 from the University of Calabria (Unical). After visits to various institutions in the UK, from 2005 he serves as Senior Lecturer in numerical methods and process dynamics and control at Unical. Research interests have ever since been in developing fundamental understanding and the building blocks of advanced DEM and DEM-CFD modelling. His main contributions have been in progressing frictional-elastic contact models, drag force with four-way coupling and heat transfer....Read more

Raffaella Ocone

Prof Ocone obtained her first degree in Chemical Engineering from the Università di Napoli, Italy and her MA and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, USA. She holds the Chair of Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University (HWU) since 1995. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2007 she was conferred the title of Cavaliere (Knight) of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity from the Italian...Read more

Jesse Zhu

Jesse Zhu is a Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair at Western University (formerly known as the University of Western Ontario), in London, Canada.  Since 1983, he has worked on many areas of fluidization and particle technology including several years at Shell in the Netherlands.  With 400+ journal publications, 50+ patents, and over 200 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows supervised, he has worked on a very wide range of R&D projects, many from the industry.  In addition to fundamental research, he is particularly active in technology...Read more

Mikio Sakai

Dr. Mikio Sakai is currently Associate Professor in the Resilience Engineering Research Center in The University of Tokyo. He earned his Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 2006. Then, he became Assistant Professor in 2007 and Associate Professor in 2008. He has been Visiting Reader at Imperial College London since 2016. He extensively studies modeling of granular flows, multi-phase flows and the heat transfer, and the parallel computation techniques. He is a world-leading professor in computational granular dynamics, and hence has delivered lots of invited lectures in conferences...Read more

Guangwen Xu

Prof. Dr. Guangwen Xu, president, chair professor, and institute director of Shenyang University of Chemical Technology (SYUCT), an adjunct professor of Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He graduated from Tsinghua University for his Bachelor and from Chinese Academy of Sciences for his Doctor in Chem. Eng.  He has worked in 2015-2017 as the director of Southwest Research and Design Institute of Chemical Industry, in 2006-2015 as a professor and a team leader in IPE, CAS, in 1996-2006 in Japan and Germany as, in succession, a NEDO industrial...Read more

J. Ruud van Ommen

Prof. J. Ruud van Ommen obtained his PhD degree in Chemcal Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2001. Currently, he is a full professor, leading the Product & Process Engineering group at Delft University of Technology. He has been visiting professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) and the University of Colorado (Boulder, USA). In recent years, he expanded his research from chemical reactor engineering to the scalable production of advanced, nanostructured materials. In 2011, he started an ambitious program (funded by an ERC Starting Grant) to...Read more

Hervé Neau

Hervé Neau manages a numerical simulation support team in a French research laboratory: Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse. He is also in charge of the IT department dedicated to computing and data at the scale of Toulouse INP University. Through these structures, he and his teams help PHD students and researchers to perform numerical computations, to access massively parallel computing resources (HPC) and to handle produced data. Hervé Neau joined the CNRS as a Research Engineer after a fluid mechanics engineering formation at ENSEEIHT. He is a specialist of scientific...Read more

Ji Xu

Ji Xu is an associate professor of chemical engineering at Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences where he also received his PhD. He is mainly engaged in multi-scale method to realize the virtual process engineering, especially for the gas-solid flow. His work includes establishment of high performance computing methods, including algorithm design of CPU/GPU coupled large-scale parallel computation of discrete particle methods, e.g. molecular dynamics (MD) and discrete element method (DEM)....Read more

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