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Biocon - Orators
Dr. Thomas J Webster
Dr. Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 121; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 – 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Hebei University of Technology, Saveetha University, Vellore Institute of Technology, UFPI, and others.
Dr. Cristiano Jose De Andrade
Dr. Andrade, a Food Engineering graduate from Federal University of Lavras (2008), received his PhD from UNICAMP in 2016. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory/Dempster USP, he became an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Dr. Andrade specializes in biotechnological processes, including fermentation, bacterial metabolism, and mass spectrometry. He has published 35 scientific articles, 14 book chapters, and holds 2 patents
Dario Puppi
Dr. Puppi graduated with an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2005. She then joined Prof. Emo Chiellini’s research group at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa. She earned her PhD in Biomaterials in 2009 and now works as a Senior Research Fellow in Industrial Chemistry at the same institution. Dr. Puppi has published over 60 research articles in SCI(E) journals, receiving more than 2700 citations (Scopus database).
Dr. Paulo Cesar De Morais
Paulo C. DE MORAIS (H-60), PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology – China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010. 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee.
Dr. Wei Jiang
Tania Limongi is an Assistant Professor at DISAT, Politecnico di Torino. She researches applied physics, biology, biomedical engineering, and materials science. Her projects include drug technology, liposome and vesicle engineering, and biomimetic nanotools. She has authored 4 patents and over 80 publications. Tania is also an editorial board member and reviewer for several international scientific journals.