Plenary Speakers Philip Jessop
Dr. Philip Jessop is the Canada Research Chair of Green Chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and the Executive Research Director of Forward Water Technologies Inc. After his Ph.D. (British Columbia, 1991) and a postdoctoral appointment (Toronto, 1992), he was a contract researcher in Japan working for R. Noyori (Nobel Prize 2001). As a professor at the University of California-Davis (1996-2003) and since then at Queen’s, his research interests include green solvents, biomass conversion, and the chemistry of CO2 and H2. Distinctions include the NSERC Polanyi Award (2008), Killam Research Fellowship (2010), Canadian Green Chemistry & Engineering Award (2012), Eni Award (2013), a Canada Research Chair Tier 1 (2013 to 2027), the NSERC Brockhouse Prize (2019), and Fellowships in the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He served as Chair of the Editorial Board for the journal Green Chemistry (2017-2022), has chaired three international conferences, and helped create GreenCentre Canada, a National Centre of Excellence for the commercialization of green chemistry technologies. Forward Water Technologies Inc. is a spin-off company based upon Dr. Jessop’s switchable solvents. His Tiktok video series “Jessop’s Which Is Greener?” reaches tens of thousands of viewers. Annamma Anil Odaneth Annamma Anil Odaneth was born in Mumbai, India, in 1972. She received her PhD under the guidance of Prof Arvind Lali at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai in Affinity Separations for Biomolecules. She spent the next two years in the same lab working on different hydrolytic and synthesis reactions using Hydrolase enzymes. In 2009, she was selected as the UNIDO fellow and spent some time at Trieste, Italy and worked on computational modelling of enzyme-substrate reactions. She was later appointed as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and started to work on enzymes in biofuels from agri-wastes. Efficient processes for protein extraction, triglyceride production from sugars, etc. were developed in her laboratory and are being evaluated by industry for commercialization. She currently works as the Group leader for Biotechnology at UPL Ltd, formerly United Phosphorus Limited, is an Indian multinational company that manufactures and markets agrochemicals, industrial chemicals, chemical intermediates, and specialty chemicals, and offers pesticides. Her current interests include sustainable enantioselective biocatalysis and enzyme-metal hybrid catalysts for organic synthesis.
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