Plenary and Keynote Speakers

Five plenary lectures of a wide ranging nature will be given by speakers of international standing on highly topical subjects relevant to the field of chemical and process engineering as broadly defined. Ten or more keynote lectures of a more focused nature will also be presented by internationally recognized speakers as part of the parallel sessions. Below is the list of currently identified plenary speakers and keynote lecturers.

Plenary Speakers:

• Professor Andrew Hopkins (School of Social Sciences, ANU) - Why BP Failed to Learn the Lessons: The Texas City Refinery Explosion
• Professor Jinghai Li (Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Real-Time Simulation of Chemical Processes - Dream or reality?
• Dr David Mills (Ausra) - Concentrating Solar Thermal Power
• Professor Hans Müller-Steinhagen (Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center, Stuttgart, Germany) - Fuel Cells with Wings
• Mr Andrew Stock (Origin Energy) - The role of technology and policy in increasing the competitiveness of Australia’s renewable and low emission energy resources
• Dr Ziggy Switkowski (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) - Climate Change and Nuclear Energy

Keynote Speakers:

• Professor Rose Amal (School of Chemical Sciences & Engineering, UNSW) - Harnessing Solar Energy: From Clean Water, Fresh Air, Super Surfaces to Renewable Energy
• Dr Tom Beer (CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research) - Biofuels: Hope, Hype or Happiness
• Professor Suresh Bhargava (Applied Sciences, RMIT University) - The Way Forward for Australia's Uranium Industry: Gaining an Improved Understanding of the Science of Uranium Extraction
• A/Professor Sankar Bhattacharya (Monash University) - Cleaner Coal Technologies: Developments and Challenges for Scientific and Engineering Communities
• Professor Barry Brook (Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide) - Sustainable Energy Solutions for Successful Climate Change Mitigation
• Professor Xiao Dong Chen (Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University) - Food Fantasies from Chemical Engineers
• Dr Paul Cleary (CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences) - Application of particle methods for modelling particulate and fluid flows in industrial processes
• Che Cocktatoo-Collins (Santos - Industry Best Practice and Innovation) - Valuing Indigenous Influence, Valuing My Company
• Professor Justin Cooper-White (Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland) - Biomicrofluidics: From Measuring the Elasticity of Biofluids to the Creation of Microenvironments for Stem Cell Expansion, Artificial Vessel Generation and Controlled Tissue Genesis
• Professor Peter T. Cummings (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USA) - Computational Nanoscience and the Interplay Between Experiment and Theory
• Dr Geoff Dumsday (CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering) - White Biotechnology: The Next Industrial Revolution?
• Professor Paul Lant (University of Queensland) - Life Cycle Assessment of the Gold Coast Urban Water System – Lessons Learned
• Professor Milton Hearn (ARC Special Research Centre for Green Chemistry, Monash University) - Green Chemistry and Molecular Sustainability: It's Time to Get Serious
• Dr Anita Hill (CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering) - Pore design in membranes
• Mr Barry Hooper (CO2 CRC) - CO2 Reduction - The CCS Story
• Associate Professor Tong Lin (Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation Institute for Technology Research and Innovation - Deakin University) - Towards Intelligent" Miniature Reactor using Magnetic Liquid Marbles
• Professor David Lowe (Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney) - Remote labs: improved learning, greater flexibility, higher quality, and lower cost - achieving it all!
• Professor Mehmet Sarikaya (Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington) - Molecular Biomimetics: Genetically Design Peptide-based Molecular Materials and Systems for Technology and Medicine
• Dr Jerome Werkmeister (CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies) - New Designed Materials and Technologies for Tissue Repair
• Professor Brent Young (The University of Auckland) - Modelling and Simulation: Putting the Process back into Control
• Professor Dongke Zhang (University of Western Australia) - How far and how fast can bioenergy go?
• Professor Ganapati D. Yadav (Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai (formerly UDCT/UICT) - Selectivity Engineering in Development of Green and Benign Catalytic Processes
• Stephen Grano - (Institute for Minerals and Energy Resources, The University of Adelaide) - Future trends in flotation research: Opportunities and pitfalls