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Michal Lotem

Professor of Clinical and Radiation Oncology in Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem Israel. Head of the Melanoma and Cancer Immunotherapy Center. Active clinician researcher.  Focusing on discovery of new immune checkpoint receptors and TCR-T adoptive cell transfer development. ...Read more

Nandkishor K. Nere

Nandu is a head of Center of Excellence for Isolation and Separation Technologies (CoExIST) which is responsible to develop robust crystallization, filtration and drying processes for all the small molecules of AbbVie. He has been a founder head of the AbbVie wide Cross-Functional Modeling forum (CMF) meant to provide modeling-based process solutions to both the small and large molecule pipeline and commercial assets. Nandu also leads Enabling Technology Consortium’s Crystallization Group. He carries 10+ years of industrial experience and is author of 40+ research publications and book...Read more

Babu Chalamala

Dr. Babu Chalamala is Manager of the Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department at Sandia National Laboratories.

Prior to joining Sandia in August 2015, he was a Corporate Fellow at SunEdison (formerly MEMC Electronic Materials) for five years, where he led R&D and product development in grid scale energy storage. Before that, he founded two startup companies commercializing large format lithium batteries and digital x-ray sources. Earlier, as a research staff member at Motorola, Research Triangle Institute, and Texas Instruments, he made contribution to the development of...Read more

Shannon M. Bragg-Sitton, Ph.D.

Dr. Bragg-Sitton is the Lead for Integrated Energy Systems (IES) in the Nuclear Science & Technology Directorate at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Within this role, Shannon serves as the co-Director for the INL Laboratory Initiative on IES, which includes focus areas for thermal energy generation, power systems, data systems, and chemical processes/industrial applications. Shannon is also the INL lead for the DOE Applied Energy Tri-Laboratory Consortium, which includes INL, the National Renewable Energy Lab, and the National Energy...Read more

Anahita Khanlari

Anahita Khanlari, PhD, is a research engineer at Nalco Water, a division of Ecolab. She received her PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Kansas (KU) in 2014. At KU, she specialized in hydrogels and water-soluble polymers. After graduation, she joined Nalco Water’s downstream petrochemicals division. During the past six years, she has managed projects in primary olefins, acrylic acid, acrylonitrile, and other reactive monomers. In her current position, she is also responsible for training, sales and marketing support, and leading technical trials. She has authored multiple...Read more

Jessica Burgin

Jessica Burgin is a senior account manager at Nalco Water, a division of Ecolab. She received her BS in chemical engineering from Lamar Univ. in 2005 and began her career at Nalco upon graduation. During her 15 years with Nalco Water, she has managed process and water treatment accounts in ethylene plants and refineries. Burgin joined the Nalco Chemical Process Industries marketing team as a sales technical specialist in 2018, supporting ethylene and reactive monomer customers across the Gulf Coast. She has co-authored papers for the Ethylene Producers Conference (EPC).Read more

Debby M. Rossana

Debby Rossana, PhD, is a senior industrial technical consultant (ITC) at Nalco Water, a division of Ecolab. She received her BS in chemistry from Stockton Univ. in 1979 and her PhD in organic chemistry from Duke Univ. in 1983. She began her industrial career at DuPont in 1983, where she held positions in research, technical service, and sales. In 1993, she joined Nalco Water as a sales representative. During her 27 years with Nalco Water, she has held positions in sales, management, marketing, and business development. Currently, in her role as an industry technical consultant (ITC),...Read more

May Yen

May Yen, PhD, is a mechanical engineer in the Exponent, Inc., thermal science practice (Email: myen@exponent.com). She specializes in multi­dimensional modeling and computational analysis of complex systems, including industrial equipment, combustion systems, energy storage, and fluid and heat transfer equipment, focusing on failure analysis and fire and explosion investigations. Yen has a background in combustion, heat transfer, thermo­dynamics, and fluid dynamics, and she has experience in consequence analysis associated with flammable releases and...Read more

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