Biography
Esmaiel Jabbari completed his PhD at Purdue University and postdoctoral studies at Monsanto, Rice University, and Mayo Clinic. He is Full Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at University of South Carolina. He is internationally known for his work on synthesis and processing of nanomaterials for applications in drug delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He received the Berton Rahn Award from the AO Foundation in 2012 and the Stephen Milam Award from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation in 2008. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2013. He has published 250 above books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference proceedings, and presented 260 above seminars at national and international conferences on biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. He has mentored 130+ visiting scholars, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral students, and undergraduate students. He is a member of numerous scientific organizations including BMES, SFB, TERMIS, MRS, EMBS, ACS, AIChE, and AACR.
Research Interest
Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering
Biography
Mike Scurrell is Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Chemical Engineering at the University of South Africa and Emeritus Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He was previously Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Research Associate, UNISA (University of South Africa) , Applied Research Manager, Anglo American Research Laboratories (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, Programme Manager – Catalysis, Division of Energy Technology, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa, Divisional Head – Catalysis, former National Institute of Chemical Engineering, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby (Copenhagen), Denmark. He gained PhD and DSc degrees from the University of Nottingham, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and Chartered Chemist, Member South African Chemical Institute 2000, Member American Chemical Society and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa in 2006.His Research and professional interests include Catalysis and surface chemistry, engineering aspects of catalytic technologies. Synthetic fuels and processes for catalytic production and upgrading of fuels. Direct conversion of natural gas and C1 chemistry, including methanol and DME synthesis, conversion routes to hydrocarbons via methanol and DME, catalytic processing in the petroleum, chemical and energy fields, catalytic processing of biomass, physical chemistry of the solid state and solid state transformation processes, including minerals processing, application of spectroscopic methods to the characterization of the bulk and surface and catalytic properties of solids, novel technologies for the fabrication of microstructures and the processing of solids.
Research Interest
Catalysis and surface chemistry, engineering aspects of catalytic technologies
Biography
Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968.He is the author and coauthor of over 460 publications. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow sixteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.
Research Interest
Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization,Nanotechnology and computational modeling of top-down Nanofabrication,clean and renewable energy,wind energy, solar thermal energy, chemical looping combustion for carbon capture, geological sequestration of CO2, and fuel cell and battery modelling
