reLFT: a sustainable approach to upcycle thermoplastic composite waste About Dr. Marc Huisman Dr. Marc Huisman is Program Manager at Brightlands Materials Center. He started his career at the Institute for Composite Materials in Kaiserlautern, Germany, with research and development in the field of crashworthiness of thermoplastic composites. Then, he worked 17 years atRead more
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About Prof. Dr. Ir. Remko Akkerman After receiving his engineer’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 (on turbomachinery), Remko Akkerman received his Ph.D. in viscoelastic flow simulations in the group of prof. Huétink in 1993 at the University of Twente. He started working as an assistant professor in the chair of Engineering Design in PlasticsRead more
About Dr. Charlotte Kjellander Charlotte Kjellander received her MSc in Chemical Technologies in 2001 from Lund Institute of Technologies, Lund University, Sweden, including studies at EPFL, Switzerland, and her Ph.D. in Materials Sciences in 2006 from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Professional interests include materials research of organic and polymeric materials for opticalRead more
Engineering in Precision Medicine About prof. Ali Khademhosseini Ali Khademhosseini is currently the CEO and Founding Director of the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation. Previously, he was a Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering and Radiology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) where he also served as the Founding Director of the Center forRead more
Conducting polymers and an electrospun polymer device for orthopaedic tissue repair About Prof. Sarah Cartmell Sarah’s interdisciplinary research area focuses on creating a paradigm shift in healthcare treatments. Her research is in the area of orthopaedic tissue engineering, wound care treatments and more recently, translating the 3D tissue growth techniques to cancer research for earlyRead more
About Dr. Oren Scherman Oren Scherman is a native of Norman, Oklahoma (USA). He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with a BA in Chemistry in 1999, he then moved to Pasadena, California, where he completed a PhD in 2004 in olefin metathesis and controlled polymerisation under the supervision of Professor Robert H. Grubbs at the California InstituteRead more
Digital and green transformation of industrial polymer value chains INPRO, Berlin, Germany About Dr.-Ing. Gerd Esser Along with an awesome team of experienced innovation managers, highly motivated digital developers and specialized experts at inpro, I try to contribute in making industrial engineering and production processes better and more efficient. The inpro innovation company isRead more
Polymer based bioengineered organs Full Professor, (Bio)artificial organs, Department of Biomaterials Science and Technology, TechMed institute – Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands About Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Stamatialis Education/training University of Athens – Greece, date: 05/11/1989, main subject: Chemistry. Doctorate/PhDUniversity/College of Higher Education: University of Athens – Greece –Read more
Synthetic extracellular matrices based on supramolecular polymers Patricia Dankers is professor in Biomedical Materials & Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She studied chemistry in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her PhD studies were performed at TU/e, on supramolecular biomaterials (2006). She worked for SupraPolix, and the University Medical Center, Groningen. Her second PhDRead more
Head of the Chair of Chemical Process Engineering (AVT.CVT). About Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Wessling Since 2010 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Wessling is the head of the Chair of Chemical Process Engineering (AVT.CVT). The coreresearch field of the chair focuses on the development and application of membrane technology for current globalchallenges, particularly hybrid processes and electrochemicalRead more