Farid Taheri

Canada

Introduction to a Novel Fully-Recyclable, Sustainable and Eco-friendly Lightweight Composite

Zhongwei Guan

UAE

Manufacture and charaterization of thermoplastic composite prepregs with water based resin impregnation technology

Peter Viktor Mercea

Germany

Peter Mercea started in 1977 a physicist career in Romania where he got his Ph.D. in 1986 and worked in R&D institutions until 1992. During this time he has also worked in R&D in Cincinnati/USA and Moscow/Russia. After emigrating to Germany, he has worked  in the Fraunhofer-Institute IVV from Freising. Since 1997 he is Senior Research Scientist at FABES-Research Ltd. Here he coordinates and works in the field of development of modeling tools and software for the calculation of  “mass transfer phenomena” from polymeric materials into various contact media (foods, food simulants, drinking water, cosmetic products, human body and environment).

Roy Shenhar

Israel

Roy Shenhar is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry and Computer Science in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and spent 3 years as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and another year as a Zeff Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Technion. Since 2006 he heads the laboratory for Polymer-Based Nanomaterials Assembly at the Hebrew University, which focuses on developing self-assembly strategies that combine top-down fabrication and bottom-up assembly approaches for photonic and biomedical applications.

Prof. Shenhar is the author and co-author of 55 peer-reviewed publications and 6 patents, serves on the board of the Israeli Polymers and Plastic Society since 2014, and was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Polymer (Elsevier) between 2013-2018.

Savvas G Hatzikiriakos

Canada

Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos obtained his diploma in chemical engineering from the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki (1983), his M.A.Sc. in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto (1988) and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from McGill University. Since 1991 he is been a professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests are in the area of polymer rheology, polymer processing and surface science. He has published over 240 referred journal papers, 115 papers in conference proceedings, 180 conference presentations, five patents and one book on polymer processing instabilities. Prof Hatzikiriakos is a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering as well Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids.

Vistasp M. Karbhari

United States

Hygrothermal Degradation of Pultruded E-Glass Composites

Masaru Tanaka

Japan

Tanaka worked for TERUMO Co. (Leading Medical Devices Company in Japan). In 2000 he moved to Hokkaido University and in 2007 he moved to Tohoku University. His developed medical devices are commercially available in the global clinical market as a world share No.1. He was a Visiting Scientist, at Dept. of New Materials and Biosystems, Max-Planck-Institute (2008-2009). In 2009 he was awarded a full professorship at Yamagata University. Since 2015, he has been at Kyushu University as a full Professor. Thus far, he has published over 230 papers in peer reviewed journals (H-index 61), 50 book chapters, 135 others, 250 patents, over 100 invited talks at International Conferences including Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting. He is a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering and an executive director of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials, and a committee member at IUPAC polymer division, and organized many international conferences as an international advisory board. He received the Japanese Society for Biomaterials Award, the SPSJ Asahi Kasei Award, and the British Council PMI2 Connect-Research Co-operation (UK) Award.