Speakers
Marc-Olivier Coppens University College London, United Kingdom
Marc-Olivier COPPENS is Ramsay Memorial Professor in Chemical Engineering at UCL, since 2012, after professorships at Rensselaer and TU Delft. Having served as Head of Department of Chemical Engineering for 8 years, he is, since 2021, Vice-Dean for Engineering (Interdisciplinarity, Innovation) at UCL. He directs the UCL Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering (CNIE), which was granted “Frontier Engineering” (2013) and “Progression” (2019) Awards by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He is most recognised for pioneering nature-inspired chemical engineering (NICE) over the past 25 years and developing a systematic nature- inspired solution methodology to accelerate innovation and address Grand Challenges, associated to sustainable development. He has published >170 peer-reviewed journal articles and has delivered >50 plenaries, keynotes and named lectures. He is Fellow of IChemE, AIChE, RSC, Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (Germany), Qiushi Professor at Zhejiang University (China), Scientific Council Member for IFP Energies nouvelles (France), and serves on advisory and editorial boards, including Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification. www.ucl.ac.uk/nature-inspired-engineering/people/leadership-team/prof-marc-olivier-coppens
Heather Kulik Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Professor Heather J. Kulik is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. She received her B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the Cooper Union in 2004 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 2009. She completed postdoctoral training at Lawrence Livermore and Stanford, prior to joining MIT as a faculty member in November 2013. Her research in computational catalysis and materials science has been recognised by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award and Director’s fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, the AAAS Marion Milligan Mason Award, the Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship and a Sloan Fellowship in chemistry, among others. cheme.mit.edu/profile/heather-j-kulik/
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