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Venkat Bhamidi

Venkat Bhamidi is an experienced career scientist with a strong research background in organic and biomolecular phase transformation phenomena, crystallization, and chemical process engineering. He received his Ph. D. in chemical engineering from the University of Toledo and has conducted post-doctoral research at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has over 20 years of R&D career with research institutions, pharmaceutical, chemical, and oil & gas industries. He is skilled in aspects of process development through experimental research and modeling, and in translation of...Read more

Laura Schultz

Mike DePierro

Mike DePierro is a Principal Research Scientist working in the Silanes & Hybrids Process R&D group in Midland, Michigan. He joined Dow in 2010 and has led various organosilane and organosiloxane process development projects. He previously led the Silicones Process IP team as well as the Organosilanes ICM team. He also led the Process Chemistry Community of Practice as well as the Specialty Siloxanes Tech Center program, overseeing process development activities and significant expansion of several organosilicone products. Prior to joining Dow he was employed with General Electric...Read more

Mark Bauer

Ryan Schafer

Nasser Al Azri

I graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University in 2017 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. I joined Lubrizol right after that as a Process Innovation Engineer in Wickliffe, Ohio. My work focuses on developing and executing new and novel process technologies and converting the production of specialty chemicals from large volume batch reactors to much smaller continuous reactors in order to increase safety, efficiency, and sustainability, while reducing capital and operating costs using concepts such as process...Read more

Aurelio Stammitti

Dr. Stammitti is originally from Venezuela, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in chemical engineering. He was an assistant professor there for 7 years, specializing in thermodynamics and heat transfer. In 2013 moved to Canada and obtained hid PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Toronto in 2019. During his PhD Dr. Stammitti worked on several projects for processing bitumen from the Alberta Oilsands and proposed an emulsion-based technology for in-situ recovery. He was teaching assistant for thermodynamics and heat transfer courses and received the departmental...Read more

Yuan Li

Dr Yuan Li is a process development engineer at Corteva. Her expertise are process simulation, thermodynamic modeling, and process scale up. She worked at Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in Systems Assessment Center before she joined Corteva. Her research mainly focused on evaluating the environmental impact of various sustainable biofuel productions with various feedstocks, such as energy crops and waste stream. She got her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University in 2021. Her dissertation is about thermodynamic modeling development for electrolyte and...Read more

Alejandra Peralta

Alejandra is a Senior Chemical Engineer with 17+ years of experience in the process simulation software industry.  She joined Chemstations in 2006 and has been with the technical support team since.  Helping existing and prospects customers be successful in simulated different projects in different types of industries. Alejandra joined AIChE in July 2006 and has been an active participant in multiple presentations and papers.  Alejandra is originally from Maracaibo, Venezuela where she received a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering.  Alejandra considers Houston, TX...Read more

Tyler Davis

Tyler Davis was born Nashville, Tennessee. After obtaining his B.S. in biochemistry from Lipscomb University, he entered graduate school at Vanderbilt University to study organic chemistry. There he joined the laboratory of Professor Jeffrey Johnston. During his studies at Vanderbilt, he helped develop novel asymmetric organocatalysts and applied them to the synthesis of chiral nonracemic amines of medicinal importance. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he moved to Fort Collins, Colorado for postdoctoral studies at Colorado State University. There he joined the laboratory of Professor Tomislav...Read more

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