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April 2019

Digitization

This session will feature speakers on the topic of Digitization in Process Development.

Session Chair:

  • Wolfgang Falter, Deloitte

*All session and speaker information is subject to change pending finalization

Process Intensification

Session Chairs:

  • Bastian Arendt, The Dow Chemical Company

Session Description:

Modeling & Data Analytics in Process Optimization

Session Chairs:

  • Thomas Froese, atlan-tec Systems GmbH

Session Description:

Creating a Baseline for Lifelong Learning in Engineering Education

Session Chairs:

  • Anna Wolna, Chemstations Europe

Session Description:

Process Optimization

Session Chairs:

  • Armin Fricke, Chemstations Europe 

Session Description:

Process Development Symposium - 2019 - Merck & Co., Inc.

Paul Yelvington

Paul Yelvington is the Chief Technology Officer of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute. Paul’s expertise includes combustion, alternative fuels, engines, biomass conversion, applied spectroscopy, reactor piloting, techno-economic analysis, technology transfer, product development, and project management. He also specializes in the use of advanced simulations and controls to improve the efficiency of practical energy conversion devices.Read more

Francisco Guzman

Francisco started at Merck in 2013 as part of the competitive Merck Manufacturing Development Rotational Program,   gaining experience across late stage drug product development, procurement, and drug substance development.   Currently he is working in the Chemical Engineering Research and Development Project team in Rahway, New Jersey.  He is responsible for the development, scale-up, and commercialization of drug substance processes, from initial introduction during phase I clinical trials through to launch.  Francisco has leveraged the experience he gained...Read more

Brian Goodfellow

Brian Goodfellow is currently an Associate Research Scientist at The Dow Chemical Company in Olefins, Aromatics, and Alternatives R&D. Brian joined The Dow Chemical Company in 2012 where he worked in the Chemical Science function of Core R&D for 6 years focusing on inorganic materials and heterogeneous catalyst. During this time he led materials research efforts in a variety of optoelectronic technologies and catalytic processes for light olefins. In 2018 he joined the Olefins, Aromatics, and Alternatives R&D group where he is now focusing on the development of Fluidized...Read more

Ekaterina Semenova

Ekaterina graduated from the Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University. As a pre-doctoral fellow, she studied the genetic diversity of microbes from Lake Baikal and received her PhD in Genetics at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Ekaterina joined the laboratory of Konstantin Severinov at the Waksman Institute for Microbiology at Rutgers University in 2003. She has been studying different aspects of bacterophage-host interactions, regulation of phage development, and bacterial defense mechanisms such as restriction-modification...Read more

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