Simo Ellila Simo Ellilä is a molecular biologist working as a Research Scientist in the Bioprocess engineering team at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, where he joined in 2011. He has been involved in several EU and industry projects aiming at converting lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol or organic acids. His work has focused mainly…
Artur Yabe Milanez
Orlando Rojas Dr. Rojas is Professor of Bio-based Materials in Aalto University (Finland). Previously, he was Professor in the departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Forest Biomaterials of North Carolina State University (USA). Earlier in his career he was a senior scientist appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Royal Institute…
Martin Mitchell Martin Mitchell is a Business Development Manager for the Biofuels & Derivatives Division at Clariant which is based in Munich, Germany. Martin leads the business development efforts to commercialize the sunliquid® process technology in North America, South America and Asia based out of Des Moines, Iowa – USA. Prior to Martin’s work at…
Mario Murakami Mario Murakami is Principal Investigator at CNPEM (LNLS/LNBio) since 2008 and was the coordinator of the X-ray Crystallography Village from 2008 to 2016. Currently, he is the coordinator of the Molecular Division at CTBE/CNPEM. He is graduated in Engineering at UNESP and doctorate in Molecular Biophysics at UNESP with sandwich period at University…
Marcelo Hamaguchi Chemical engineer, São Paulo University; Master’s degree in Process Control and Simulation, São Paulo University; Doctoral degree in Sustainable Energy Systems, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Twelve years of experience in the Pulp and Paper industry and working with biorefining technologies since 2008. Currently responsible for R&D projects for Valmet in South America.…
Luiz Pereira Ramos Full Professor in Analytical Organic Chemistry at the Federal University of Paraná, with his Ph.D. received from the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada in 1992. Associate Editor of the ACS journal Energy & Fuels and leader of many research activities in the areas of renewable resources and biofuels, with…
Bernardo Silva
Leandro Vieira dos Santos Leandro Vieira is a research scientist at CTBE (Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory). Bachelor in Biological Sciences (2007), Master (2009) in Microbiology at Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) and Ph.D. (2017) in Genetics and Molecular Biology at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He is also a collaborator researcher at UNICAMP. He was…
Rubens Maciel Filho Professor Rubens Maciel Filho. B.S., Chemical Engineer- São Carlos Federal University-1981, Nuclear Engineer- São Carlos Federal University, M.Sc. Chemical Engineering- State University of Campinas-1985,. Ph.D.,Chemical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK-1989. Top Productivity (1A) of National Research Council (CNPQ) since 2000 and Member of Science Academy of State of São Paulo since October…