Danckwerts Session
Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 11:30, Hall 1
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We are proud that this year's Danckwerts Lecture Prof. Dr. Frances H. Arnold, Design by evolution: engineering biology |
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About Frances H. Arnold
Frances H. Arnold is Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Her main research areas are protein engineering, directed evolution, biocatalysis, biological circuit design, and bioenergy. She is a pioneer in the exciting field of directed evolution and strives to elucidate the principles of biological design. Engineering new enzymes using methods of laboratory evolution for bioenergy, green chemistry, or medical applications is a main focus of her work.
Frances H. Arnold is an internationally highly recognized scientist, and this is reflected by numerous awards and honors for her outstanding work. She is the only woman with the rare honor of being elected to all three National Academies in the United States.
Educated in mechanical and aerospace engineering and in chemical engineering, she is now fascinated by biochemistry and bioengineering - interdisciplinarity is more than just a word for Frances Arnold and her research.
About the Danckwerts Lecture
The Danckwerts Lecture is an annual award lecture donated in commemoration of Professor Peter V. Danckwerts and his contribution made in pursuit of scholarship in chemical engineering. This year's Lecture given by Frances Arnold, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, aptly reflects the intention of the joint ECCE/ECAB congress to foster the interdisciplinary exchange between chemical engineers and biotechnologists.
The Lecture is sponsored by EFCE - the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, AiChE - the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Elsevier, publisher of Chemical Engineering Science.
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Tuesday, September 27, 10:30, Hall 1 Prof. Dr. Jinghai Li, Real-time simulation of chemical processes.
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Professor Li graduated from the Department of Thermal Engineering of the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982. He entered a master's degree program at his alma mater in the same year. He obtained his Ph.D. from the former CAS Institute of Chemical Metallurgy (now the CAS Institute of Process Engineering, IPE) in Beijing in 1987. He conducted his post-doctoral research at the City University of New York and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. After returning to China in 1990, he served as assistant research professor, associate research professor, professor, vice director and director of IPE in succession. In February 2004, he was appointed a vice president of CAS.
Jinghai Li has been engaged in quantitative design and scale-up studies of particle-fluid systems. He proposed a multi-scale approach based on micro-scale of individual particles, micro-scale of particle aggregates and macro-scale of apparatuses, and formulated the variational criterion for the heterogeneous flow structure of particle-fluid systems, leading to the establishment of the Energy-Minimization Multi-Scale (EMMS) model. The model has been extended to calculating radial profiles in particle-fluid systems and defining the critical condition for choking from one steady state to another. In addition, he has made progress in computer-aided experiments in particle-fluid systems, as well as in clean-coal technology.
Jinghai Li currently serves as chair of the Expert Committee on Energy under the National "863" Programme, vice president of the All China Youth Federation and president of the Chinese Society of Particulogy.