Dr Helene Jeske
Postdoctoral Researcher
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Joining and Welding

Dr Helene Jeske was born in Temirtau (Kazakhstan) in 1981. She studied Chemistry at the University of Brunswick – Institute of Technology and received her Ph.D. degree in 2012 at the research organization Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI with a main focus at reactive halogen-free high-performance fire retardant coatings. Since 2016 she is postdoc at the Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forests and Fisheries. Her main research project is in the field of biobased 2-component epoxy resin systems as binder in lithium-ion batteries.

Souman Rudra
Associate professor
University of Agder

Souman Rudra is currently working at the University of Agder, Norway as an associate professor since 2013. He conducts research and teaching within renewable energy technology – related to biomass conversion process and thermal energy systems and analysis of energy conversion systems in general. He has his expertise in design, modeling, and simulation of the different energy system specially bio-energy system. He has been working in Hydrothermal liquefaction technologies for several years and also supervising PhD students in this field. Several articles have been published in this area. Energy and exergy analysis, LCA analysis have also done for several of his designed energy systems. Based on those analyses, he has proposed a quad-generation model for producing power, heat, cooling, and SNG (synthesized natural gas) for the Danish energy system.

Dr Abdeen Mustafa Omer, (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Associate Researcher
Energy Research Institute (ERI)

Dr Abdeen Mustafa Omer (BSc, MSc, PhD) is an Associate Researcher at Energy Research Institute (ERI). He obtained both his PhD degree in the Built Environment and Master of Philosophy degree in Renewable Energy Technologies from the University of Nottingham. He is qualified Mechanical Engineer with a proven track record within the water industry and renewable energy technologies. He has been graduated from University of El Menoufia, Egypt, BSc in Mechanical Engineering. His previous experience involved being a member of the research team at the National Council for Research/Energy Research Institute in Sudan and working director of research and development for National Water Equipment Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Sudan. He has been listed in the book WHO’S WHO in the World 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010. He has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 200 review articles, 15 books and 150 chapters in books.

Dr Yannick Krauke
Application Specialist
KNAUER

Dr Yannick Krauke, born on 13.01.1980 in Berlin.
2014 – 2017: Lead scientist of KNAUER company for the EU Valor Plus project
Since 2014: Application specialist at KNAUER Wissensachaftliche Geräte GmbH (Berlin, Germany), working areas mainly preparative liquid chromatography and continuous chromatography such as simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatography
2010 – 2011: Post doctoral research at ILBC GmbH (Potsdam, Germany) – Expression and purification of antimicrobial peptides from E.coli cultures
2006 – 2010: PhD fellow at Czech Academy of Science, subscribed as student at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)– working on alkali metal cation membrane transporters in yeast cells – PhD in Molecular and cell biology
2000 – 2005: Diploma student in Biology at “Freie Universität” in Berlin, major in microbiology, diploma thesis performed at “Robert Koch Institut” in Berlin

Prof. Patricia Harvey
Professor
University of Greenwich

Prof. Patricia Harvey is Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Algae Biotechnology, and a senior expert in bioenergy value chains and the water-food-energy nexus, with particular focus on the use of algal and non-food plant systems for the capture of CO2, use of non-potable water and production of green chemicals and biofuels. Highly experienced in working effectively with European and international collaborators and in managing large complex, multi-partner commercially focused/donor-funded R&D projects under the EC‘s Framework Programmes. Examples of projects: The CO2 microalgae biorefinery: D-Factory (EU-funded); Macrobiocrude (UK-funded); Non-food bio-oil supply chains in South Africa, Namibia and Ghana to create sustainable, non-food supply chains (EU-ACP-funded); Ecotec21 which installed novel, biofuel-fired CHP technology at the University of Greenwich using biooils and glycerol (EU-Interreg); Tuning algae for biofuel profitably (NERC, Innovate UK). Contributed to the Scientific Opinion Food from the Oceans delivered by the Scientific Advisory Mechanism High Level Group of Advisors to the European Commission, to inform Policy Change; co-organized EU conference Algae Biorefineries for Europe 2017.

Dr Ir. L. (Bert) van de Beld
Chief Technology Officer/Coordinator
Biomass Technology Group BV

Dr Ir. L. (Bert) van de Beld  (male) studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He joined BTG in 1995 and was appointed as CTO in 2002. He was involved in several projects on the thermochemical conversion of biomass in energy, fuels and chemicals including torrefaction, pyrolysis, HTL and gasification. Currently, he is a.o. the coordinator of the EU funded project Bio4Products concerning the production of biobased products from fast pyrolysis oil.

Gerhard Muggen
Managing Director
BTG Bioliquids BV

Gerhard Muggen is managing director and shareholder of BTG Bioliquids BV (BTG-BTL) and joined BTG-BTL in 2008. As managing director he is responsible for the strategy of BTG-BTL and the worldwide marketing and sales. Gerhard has been working for Holec, Wartsila Diesel and Stork Thermeq the last 20 years. Gerhard worked for Stork Thermeq for 8 years as Sales manager and the last four years as Vice President Marketing and Sales. In the last job he was responsible for the international marketing and sales department and directly involved in the marketing and sales in China, India and Russia. Gerhard was also responsible for organizing and initiating new developments and marketing new technologies.

Vitor Verdelho Vieira
General Manager
European Algae Biomass Association

Vitor Verdelho Vieira is mentor of several companies that he co-founded with partners in different sectors. He started his first biotech company Necton, SA – www.necton.pt in March 1989, now a European leader in the production and sale of traditional sea salt and fleur de sel, as well as the production of microalgae for aquaculture and cosmetics. He is also co-founder of A4F – Algae for Future, SA – www.a4f.pt an international reference company in the sector of microalgae technologies. One of his main interests is algae biomass biorefinery. He is currently the President of EABA the European Algae Biomass Association, with headquarters in Florence, Italy. His business experience is wide and ranges from engineering consulting and real estate to biotechnology and medical devices. In the different companies, he developed and participated in more than 40 R&D projects (more than half related with algae biomass) along the last 25 years and interacted with more than 200 different organizations in Europe. Between 2000 and 2015 he has been involved in the management of SpinLogic the entrepreneurship programme and business Incubator from the Catholic University in Porto, where he followed and supported more than 200 startup projects. He is presently visiting professor in Católica Porto Business School and School of Arts in Catholic University in Porto, Portugal. He has a background in Physics from the Porto University Sciences Faculty and established his management knowledge through through consulting experience and more than a dozen specialized training courses in Portugal and abroad in the last 30 years. See: https://pt.linkedin.com/in/vitorverdelho 

Jean-Louis Roux Dit Buisson
Founder
NeoCarbons

Jean-Louis has 25 years of experience in developing and growing technology based companies covering materials and processes and health care industries.
Jean-Louis has held responsibilities as CEO, M&A, Finance, Marketing, Sales, R&D management and Production in large groups, start-ups and SMEs.
Jean-Louis holds an MBA from Insead, an MSc in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an Engineering degree from ENSCP Paris-Tech.

Dennis Chafiâ
Business Development Manager, Chemicals and Renewable Business
G.I. Dynamics

Dennis Chafiâ studied Organic Chemistry in Leiden, The Netherlands. After his studies, he joined G.I. Dynamics in the role of Business Development manager Chemical & Renewable Business, being responsible for initiating the implementation of commercial scale biorefineries around the globe. G.I. Dynamics is currently involved in several biorefinery projects globally, including but not limited to Turkey, South Africa and Europe. G.I. Dynamics furthermore participates in URBIOFIN, a project under BBI-JU, in which several value products will be produced from Municipal Solid Waste. Dennis Chafiâ had several political functions as well, among others Vice President of CDJA, and City Council Member in the municipality of Westland.

Cyrille Pauthenier 
Founder & CEO
Abolis Biotechnologies

Cyrille Pauthenier, PhD. graduated from École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, Master in System and Synthetic Biology in Paris-Saclay University and a doctorate in metabolic engineering at Paris-Saclay University. In 2014, he co-founded Abolis Biotechnologies, with the aim of bringing state-of-the-art methodologies in metabolic engineering for the development of new micro-organism capable of producing any arbitrary chemical molecules using fermentation of renewable resources.

The company is currently developing a lot of different technology from pathway prototyping to optimized industrial strain construction in house and partners with scale-up and DSP experts in order to cover the entire value chain. Abolis aims at offering to the industry by 2020 a complete service in which, for any arbitrary molecule, we find a metabolic route, demonstrate its functionality and bring the project from the idea to a robust industrial process.

Dr. M.A. Deodhar
Head Of Botany Department
KET’s V. G. Vaze College

1)Name : Dr Mrs Manjushri A Deodhar. 2)Head and associate professor of Botany V G Vaze college,affiliated to Mumbai University. 3)34 years of teaching experience to undergraduate, post graduate students. 4) Guided 15 students for PhD degree in Botany as well as Biotechnology. 5) About 25 international publications. 6) Associated with algal CO2 sequestration project funded by Government of India.

Dr. Laurent ROUMEAS
Researcher (Organic Chemistry)
INRA

Laurent ROUMEAS received his MS degree in Medicinal Chemistry in 2010, then his PharmD, from the University of Strasbourg. He got his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2013 from the University of Montpellier, working on polyphenols in order to open new accesses to natural (poly)phenolic building blocks and fine chemicals without endocrine effects. After several post-doctoral projects, he joined in 2018 the French National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) where he continues his works on the biomass transformation and valorization in various application areas as fully biobased materials and bioactive hemisynthetic molecules.

Professor Monica Delsignore
Assistant Professor
University of Milan Bicocca, School of Law

Monica Delsignore was born in Vercelli, Italy, on 1st December 1974. She graduated in 1998 and took her PhD in administrative law in 2001 with a dissertation on public services. She is now assistant professor (reader) of Administrative Law at the University of Milan Bicocca, School of Law. Her research interests lie in the field of Public and Administrative Law, broadly conceived. She is author of two books on arbitration and market regulation and of several articles and contributions to collective works on various topics of Administrative Law and European Administrative law. She teaches or has taught Environmental Law, Administrative Law, U.S. Administrative Law, Administrative Judicial Proceeding and Sports law. Her current research interests are focused on standing in judicial review and waste legislation.

Dr Ed de Jong
Vice President Development – Renewable Chemistries
Avantium

Dr Ed de Jong graduated at Agricultural University Wageningen, the Netherlands and also defended his PhD thesis at the Agricultural University Wageningen, the Netherlands on the degradation of lignocellulose by white-rot fungi (1993). He has been research associate for 3 years at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada at the group of Jack Saddler, on the use of softwood species for biofuels application. He has been Head of the Department of Fibre and Paper Technology, Food and Biobased Research, Wageningen University & Research Centre, The Netherlands. He joint Avantium in 2007. He is currently VP Development – responsible for Public-Private partnerships of Avantium. In addition he is involved in feedstock selection and pretreatment (Avantium’s Dawn TechnologyTM and Mekong technologies) and Catalytic Biomass Conversion of carbohydrates into building blocks for polyesters such as PEF, an improved replacement of PET. He is also involved in the valorization of side products of the YXY & Zambezi Processes, cq lignins, humins and levulinates. He is part of the management team of the Stichting Topconsortium voor Kennis- en Innovatie – Biobased Economy (TKI-BBE) and he is co-chair of the IEA-Bioenergy Task 42 on biorefineries. He is involved in drafting the annual work program (AWP) or the BBI via the Biobased Industries Consortium (BIC).

Kees W. Kwant
Senior Expert on Bioenergy and Biobased Economy
Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl)

Kees W. Kwant is a Senior Expert on Bioenergy and Biobased Economy at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl). He primarily links researchers and industry to help develop the biobased economy and bioenergy. Kees has a background in Fluid Dynamics and Technology Development from the Technical University Twente. His industry experience includes work at DSM to develop fermentation processes (a large Dutch multinational company active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials), and he was the programme manager of the national solar energy programme of the Netherlands. He has extensive experience in enabling the development of a biobased economy, including the development and implementation of bioenergy in the Netherlands and abroad. Kees holded the Chair of the IEA Bioenergy (www.ieabioenergy.com) Technology Collaboration Programme till 2018 and is the executive member for the Netherlands. He participates in bilateral collaboration on bioenergy between Netherlands and South Africa, Malaysia, Brasil and Ukraine.