The Sustainable Gas Institute and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College are jointly hosting a lunchtime seminar about the current status of biofuels in Brazil with three expert speakers. A small buffet lunch will follow the talks at 13.40.
Talks
– The Brazilian sugarcane industry: challenges and perspectives – Prof Celma de Oliveira Ribeiro
– The product portfolio mix in the sugarcane industry – Prof Claudio Oller Nascimento
– From waste-to-value: The bright future of lignin in biorefinery – Dr Roberto Rinaldi
This event will be introduced by Dr Adam Hawkes, Co-director of the Sustainable Gas Institute.
Registration
Please register on Eventbrite: https://biofuels_in_brazil.eventbrite.co.uk
Speaker’s bios
Prof Claudio Oller Nascimento
Claudio Augusto Oller Nascimento has been Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic, School University of Sao Paulo, since 1990. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Salford University, UK (1982). He pursued a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo. He has been working in mathematical modeling (chemical and photochemical process) and in the last years his investigations focusing in biotechnological problems (bioenergy, bioremediation, bio-process, biosynthesis of nanoparticles) He Coordinates many projects sponsored by industry (ex. Petrobras, Vale, Alcoa Foundation) and by Brazilian Research Agencies (ex. Fapesp, Cnpq, CAPES) He has been coordinator of Chemical Engineering in FAPESP (State of Sao Paulo Research Agency) and CNPq Federal Research Agency.
Prof Celma de Oliveira Ribeiro
Celma O. Ribeiro is Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of São Paulo (USP). She completed her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and undergraduate studies in Computer Science. She is the Coordinator of the Board of Graduate Studies in the Industrial Engineering Program – Polytechnic School – University of São Paulo since 2015. Her research interests lie in the area mathematical modelling applied to Energy Economics, supply chain and financial markets. Celma has collaborated with researchers from different areas and has published some of the findings of her research about sugarcane industry and electricity markets in Energy Economics, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Energy Policy.
Dr Roberto Rinaldi
Roberto Rinaldi studied Chemistry at the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil and received his PhD in 2006. A year later, he joined the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung as postdoctoral research fellow where he became a Junior Group Leader in 2009. In 2010 he received the prestigious Sofja-Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, allowing him to launch his independent research group and develop outstanding research on lignin valorisation. For his contribution to advanced concepts for dissolution and deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass, he was awarded the Willi Keim Prize 2014 given by the Advanced Fluids Subject Division of ProcessNet (an initiative of DECHEMA and VDI-GVC). He was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London in 2015 and he has since established his research group (Tomorrow’s Chemical Technologies Lab) and published a number of papers in leading international journals including among others Angewandte Chemie and ChemSusChem. More recently, he was invited to join the International Advisory Board of the journal ChemCatChem and appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.