Daniel Atala
Daniel Atala is the Manager of the Industrial Division and also Head of Pilot Plant for Process Development (PPDP) at the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE). Atala holds a degree in Food Engineering (1997) at Federal University of Rio Grande, Master in Food Engineering (2000), PhD in Food Engineering (2004) and Postdoctoral in Chemical Engineering (2004-2006), both at Unicamp. Atala has over 10 years of experience in operational and management positions in Research, Development and Innovation in large companies such as BP (British Petroleum), CTC (Sugarcane Technology Center) and Raízen. Atala also has experience in management of technology portfolio for improving production and performance, processes intensification, debottlenecking process, total management of R&D area, experience in technologies development from design to industrial scale, through feasibility assessment and testing in pilot plant.