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Title: The age of methanol and hydrogen economies. The conversion of green-house gases CO2 and methane1. The influence of alcohol reaction kinetics in gas phase and liquid phase on size-controlled Pt nanoparticles

Biography: Gabor A. Somorjai has been a leader in the field of Catalysis for more than 45 years. He has published almost 1200 papers and 4 books. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960 and he was appointed to the faculty there in 1964. Since then, he has won just about every honor in his field. In 2011 he was the recipient of the Honda Prize, the ENI New Frontiers of Hydrocarbons Prize and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He has received the Priestley Medal (2008), the National Medal of Science (2002) the Wolf Prize (1998). Somorjai became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1979 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983.

Title: The Discovery of New Benzimidazole Oomycete Fungicides

Biography: Chris Urch is a research chemist by profession. He holds a BA and PhD from Cambridge University and has worked in chemical research for over 30 years. This has been in both the pharmaceutical and agrochemical fields.

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Title: A keyhole plasma arc welding technology and its physical mechanism

Biography: Yan Li is an Associate Professor and works at the College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUP), China. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. He joined the Department of Process Equipment at CUP as a Lecturer in 2015. Since 2018, he became an Associate Professor at CUP. His research interests are focused on Plasma arc welding technology, Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, Electro-magneto-thermal-mechanical effects and Energy saving in the industry.

Title: Intriguing Aspects of Non-innocent Ligands in Transition-Metal Catalyst

Biography: Professor Hall obtained his B. S. degree in Chemistry from Juniata College. Following his Ph. D. work with Richard Fenske at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he was awarded an AEI postdoctoral fellowship in theoretical chemistry at the University of Manchester, England, where he studied with Ian Hillier. Professor Hall’s career at Texas A&M University began in 1975 when he accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and Professor in 1983. He served as Head of the Department from 1986 to 1994, and as Executive Associate Dean in the College of Science from 1997 to 2017. He founded and has directed the Laboratory of Molecular Simulation since 1997 and was named Davidson Professor of Science in 2004.His research interests are directed toward understanding chemical structures, reactions, and catalysis through state-of-the-art quantum calculations. Applications transition-metal activation of carbon-hydrogen and carbon-carbon bonds, and biocatalysis by metalloenzymes are among his current interests. He has served on the editorial advisory board of the Organometallics and Theoretical Chemistry Accounts; and on the Advisory Board of the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis an EFRC center at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Title: Synthesis of Vinyl Acetate over Pd-Cu/ZrO2 nanostructured based catalysts

Biography: MARTIN SCHMAL is professor since 1970, became Full Professor in 1985 and Emeritus since 2008 at the Chemical Engineering Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and professor at the University of São Paulo since 2014 – He graduated Chemical Engineering at the Engineering Faculty of the Catholic University of S. Paulo( 1964), Master Science degree - 1966 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/COPPE, Brazil, Doktor Ingenieur degree (Dr.Ing.) at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (1970). He specialized at the Institut du Recherche sur la Catalyse (1981), Lyon, France and University of Karlsruhe , 1983, Germany.

Title: Identification of volatile organic compounds from human skin and its relevance on the behavior of insects of medical importance

Biography: Diva Tavares is a Professor at the Medical School of the Christus University Center (UNICHRISTUS), Brazil. She is a biologist (graduated from the Federal University of Ceará – UFC), studied mangrove ecology during the graduation and also during the Master course, where she obtained a Master Degree on Ecology and Natural Resources (UFC). Her PhD is in Experimental Pathology and it was obtained at the Gonçalo Moniz Research Institute – IGM, from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – FIOCRUZ. She has experience in chemical ecology of phlebotomine sandflies, vectors of leishmaniasis, with emphasis on Tegumentary American Leishamaniasis.

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Title: Unlocking Catalytic Powers of Nonprecious Nanomaterials

Biography: Huijun Zhao obtained his PhD in Chemistry (1994) from the University of Wollongong, Australia. He held Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow positions during 1994-1997 in the University of Wollongong and University of Western Sydney. He took a Lecturer position at Griffith University in 1997 and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer (2001), A/Professor (2003), Chair Professor of Griffith Commercialization Laboratory (2005). He currently holds a professorial position in School of Environment and Science and is the Direct of the Centre for Clean Environment and Energy at Griffith University. He is also the Director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Zhao has won a number of awards such as The R.H. Stokes Medal and University Research Leadership Award, and is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). He has expertise in energy and environmental nanomaterials, water source control and management system, field-based sensing technologies and aquatic environmental quality assessment. One of his current pursuits is to explore new means to unlock the catalytic powers of nonprecious materials as high performance catalysts for important catalysis reactions. Prof. Zhao has published over 400 refereed journal papers that attracted over 22,000 citations and earned him an H-index of 78. He has also gained 68 international patents within 8 world-wide patent families in functional nanomaterials & nanotechnology, photoelectrocatalysis and environmental monitoring systems.

Title: Global Modeling of Drill String Dragging and Buckling in 3D Curvilinear Bore-Holes

Biography: Olena Andrusenko is at the moment a senior lecturer at the Department of Mathematics of the National Transport University. She was born in Poltava region (Ukraine). She graduated from the Department of Differential Geometry of the Kharkov National University in 2003 and she obtained her PhD degree in 2014. Directions of her scientific activity are associated with the problems of mathematic simulation of drill-string deforming in hyper deep curvilinear bore-holes and analysis of their emergency states.

Title: Use of dendrimers in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

Biography: Christophe V. Deraedt received his master’s degree in nanoscience, life science, and chemistry in 2011 at the University of Bordeaux 1. He worked on the synthesis and uses of green nanoreactors (dendrimers and polymers) for catalysis of reactions including C−C bond formation and transformation, CuAAC “click” reactions, and hydrogenation chemistry for his Ph.D. with Prof. Didier Astruc. In 2016, he started a postdoctorate in the group of Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai on the heterogenization of homogeneous catalysts. His main work involved synthesis and use of metallic nanoparticles stabilized by dendrimers and supported on silica for C−C, C−H bond activation, and dehydrogenation reactions. After one year as a temporary researcher/teacher (ATER) at the University of Bordeaux in the group of Prof. Frederic Castet, in January 2019 he joined the group of Jean-Pierre Djukic at the University of Strasbourg as a CNRS researcher. His work is now focused on the C-H and Si-H activation.

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Title: Adsorption of Cu (II) ions from aqueous solution using pyridine-2,6-Dicarboxylic acid cross-linked chitosan as a green biopolymer Adsorbent.

Title: Adsorption of Cu (II) ions from aqueous solution using pyridine-2,6-Dicarboxylic acid cross-linked chitosan as a green biopolymer Adsorbent.

Title: Multi-objective optimization (MOOP) of biodiesel production from waste cooking oil via response surface methodology (RSM)

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Title: Mineralogical and geochemical studies of oil shale deposits in the cretaceous/paleogene succession at quseir area, Egypt

Biography: Mohamed A .K. Barakat has completed his PhD from the College of Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA (in 1985). His Post-doctoral studies focused on the main sediment logical and geochemical characteristics of the oil fields in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. In 1995, he is elected as an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He published more than 45 research papers and 39 unpublished scientific reports covering various fields of structural geology, groundwater, hydro- geochemistry and pollution studies. From 1997 to 2005, he acted as a Professor of Geology, Geochemistry, Hydrogeology and Head of the Drilling dept. of the Higher Institute for Water Affairs (Libya). From 2005 to present, he has been working as a Professor in Geology and Sedimentology in The Exploration Dept. EPRI. He participated as a Speaker in International Geological Conferences held in across the world (Japan, France, Dubai, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon, and USA). He is an active member in the following scientific societies: The Geological Society of Egypt, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), The Sedimentological Society of Egypt, The New York Academy of Sciences and The International Union of Geological Sciences, Kyoto, Japan.

Title: Mineralogical and geochemical studies of oil shale deposits in the cretaceous/paleogene succession at quseir area, Egypt

Biography: Mohamed A .K. Barakat has completed his PhD from the College of Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA (in 1985). His Post-doctoral studies focused on the main sediment logical and geochemical characteristics of the oil fields in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. In 1995, he is elected as an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He published more than 45 research papers and 39 unpublished scientific reports covering various fields of structural geology, groundwater, hydro- geochemistry and pollution studies. From 1997 to 2005, he acted as a Professor of Geology, Geochemistry, Hydrogeology and Head of the Drilling dept. of the Higher Institute for Water Affairs (Libya). From 2005 to present, he has been working as a Professor in Geology and Sedimentology in The Exploration Dept. EPRI. He participated as a Speaker in International Geological Conferences held in across the world (Japan, France, Dubai, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon, and USA). He is an active member in the following scientific societies: The Geological Society of Egypt, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), The Sedimentological Society of Egypt, The New York Academy of Sciences and The International Union of Geological Sciences, Kyoto, Japan.