Seambiotic Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof. Ami Ben Amotz presents his views at 2nd Algae World Europe Conversations.
For our most recent Algae Conversation, we sat down with 2nd Algae World Europe speaker Prof. Ami Ben Amotz, one of the foremost Marine Algae Experts in the world. This hardworking phycologist founded Seambiotic Ltd after his retirement from Israel’s National Institute [...]

Algae Producers, Researchers, Algae Biofuel Technology Developers, End-users and Investors from 30+ countries gather in Brussels-BELGIUM to seek clarity at 2nd Algae World Europe. The May 31- June 1 conference offers a view into 4 essential aspects of the Algal value chain.
Brussels, BELGIUM- May. 6 /Press Release/ –2nd Algae World Europe is meeting in Brussels on May 31- [...]

Travel disruptions across Europe due to the volcanic ash cloud have led to the rescheduling of the highly popular, 2nd Algae World Europe!
We are meeting back in Brussels on 31 May to 1 June. All other details remain unchanged.
Mark your calendar on the NEW DATES: 31 May-1 June to join us for the highly anticipated event [...]

With over 8 years experience in the Renewable Energy Sector, Mr. Tsoupeis has become a veteran.  His Design, Engineering, and Completion of a pilot plant, to refine waste vegetable oil into ASTM D-6751 approved Biodiesel, was completed in September 2004.
Mr. Tsoupeis has performed several feasibility studies for the Biodiesel and Algae production markets.  Research and [...]

2nd Algae World Europe is fast approaching next week, and we are pleased to inform that participants are coming from 30 countries and from different regions, including West & East Europe, Asia, North & South America.
The pie chart below offers a breakdown of attendees by industry profile:

Attendees at 2nd Algae World Europe can look forward [...]

For Episode 2 of Algae World Conversations, we engaged in an interesting email exchange with Solix Biofuels’ Vice President of Business Development, Dr. Joanna K. Money. Dr. Money is instrumental in developing the Company’s long-term business strategy, and has over 20 years of corporate and industry experience in the Biotechnology sector. Dr. Money provided a [...]

Matt Peak joined Prize Capital to serve as Director of Technology Ventures, leading its prize creation and investment initiative in partnership with the World Bank Global Environment Facility (GEF), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the X PRIZE Foundation.
Before Prize Capital, Matt served as the first employee at CFX Battery, Inc., a venture-funded startup designed [...]

Sjors van Iersel (MSc) has been working as a bioenergy consultant since early 2007. His main expertise is on the use of algae in renewable energy production and related business development.
Currently, he is finalizing his second report on algae-based biofuels for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The first report, published in 2009, [...]

David Pyrce is Executive Vice President of Kent BioEnergy and is responsible for business development and commercial strategy.
A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Pyrce founded three companies, all with successful exits. One of these companies has a current public market value in excess of $3 billion. Mr. Pyrce has over 25 years of broad executive management experience [...]

Education:
PhD studies, University of Technology Graz, Austria
Master of Process Engineering, University of Technology Graz, Austria
Work Experience:
2002-2004: Researcher, Department for Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Technology Graz, Austria
2005: Researcher, Polish Academy of Sciences, Center of Polymer Chemistry, Zabrze, Poland
2006 ongoing: Head of R&D Biotech, BDI – BioDiesel International AG, Grambach/Graz, Austria
2nd Algae World [...]

Dr Jos B. Peeters is Founder and Managing Partner of Capricorn Venture Partners NV, a Belgian based pan-European manager of venture capital funds seeking to invest in technology-based growth companies. Whilst raising a Capricorn Health-tech Fund Capricorn Venture Partners is currently investing out of its Capricorn Cleantech Fund, which focuses on innovative growth companies in [...]

Dr. John Benemann has worked in the area of microalgae mass cultivation, for wastewater treatment, specialty food and feed production, biofuels and greenhouse gas abatement, for over 30 years.  Among others, he was founder, along with Dr. Joseph Weissman, of SeaAg, Inc., a Florida clam aquaculture company that mass cultured microalgae for raising seed clams.
He [...]

Carel Callenbach lived in different countries since childhood which resulted in speaking 7 different languages fluently. After studying Tropical Agricultural Technology and finishing his MSc Agricultural Economics / Marketing and Marketing Research at Wageningen University (1993 -The Netherlands) Carel began his professional career in The Netherlands at the Van Hall Institute Leeuwarden as lector Marketing [...]

Morgan Cabigliera is the President, CEO & co-founder of Algenics SAS. Prior to founding Algenics, Morgan worked for 8 years as a consultant in the setting up and business development of biotech companies in various bio incubators. Morgan’s responsabilities included overseeing all the strategic partnerships and financing of biotech startups from the seed to the [...]

Alexander Piek studied Food Technology at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, Germany. After finishing his Diploma thesis about algae extraction at the IGV Institute in Potsdam, Germany in 2003 he worked as scientific assistant in Phototrophic Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Lausitz, Germany.
In 2006 Alexander Piek joined GEA Westfalia Separator as a [...]

Doug Frater is the president and CEO of Global Green Solutions Inc (USA) which is a renewable energy project and technology development company with a biomass to energy technology in an early commercial phase and an algae growing technology in an early development phase.
Doug has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry in [...]

Dr Bernard Kudla has a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Genetics from Orsay Paris-Sud University.
He was directing R&D for industrial strains and processes developments in Ajinomoto, Tate&Lyle and Amylum groups for fifteen years during which he worked on metabolic engineering and large-scale fermentations.
Since 2000 Bernard has been working in smaller innovative companies and is currently [...]

Dr. Bryan Willson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU) and has worked for over 25 years to develop large scale solutions for global energy needs.  He is also co-founder and Chief Technology Strategist of Solix Biofuels (www.SolixBiofuels.com), a developer of large-scale production systems for algae-based biofuels.
In June 2009, Scientific American [...]

Mark Michiels is managing director at Proviron and is today responsible for innovations.
Proviron is a medium sized chemical company with his research focus on chemical from renewable raw materials. It is in this light that the algae research is started at Proviron.
Mark Michiels is electromechanical engineer from the free university of Brussels and has a [...]

Marc Van Aken has a background in high technology companies, both early and later stage. In the 90s, he was involved in the start-up of Internet Service Provider UUNET in the Benelux, where he held a number of roles in marketing, sales and general management. Later he moved on to become VP Strategic Marketing for [...]

Ami Ben-Amotz is presently Emeritus Professor of Marine Phycology at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Haifa, Israel.
Ami Ben-Amotz received his PhD at Weitzman Institute of Science (WIS), Israel, on studies with the alga Dunaliella. After post doctorate studies at Brandeis University, USA, on hydrogen production by marine algae he returned to Israel and [...]

Olivier Lépine, is currently Chief Operating Officer for AlgoSource Technologies, an engineering companies dedicated to microalgae process development and integration. The company provides integrated consultancy services for microalgae production projects from the recycling of industrial effluent up to biomass biorefining.
Olivier is also a board member and partner of Alpha Biotech, a company specialized in production [...]

Dr. Gerald R. Cysewski has over thirty years experience in microalgae research and commercial production of microalgae products.  He is the co-founder of Cyanotech Corporation of Kona, Hawaii, USA.
He initially served as the Company’s Scientific Director and became President and CEO of Cyanotech in 1990.  In May, 2008, Dr. Cysewski stepped down from the CEO [...]

Kyriakos Maniatis graduated with a BSc. from University College London (1977) and a Ph.D. from the University of Aston in Birmingham (1987) in Chemical Engineering.
He has traditionally managed the Bioenergy demonstration part of the EC Framework Programmes over the last 20 years. He is responsible for all technical issues related to 1st and 2nd generation [...]

Algae World Conversations are downloadable audio recordings of discussion with the industry’s most influential executives and researchers on key issues across the Algal value chain. The 2nd Algae World Europe team have launched this initiative to give listeners a foretaste of what to expect at the Brussels conference on 22-23 April. >>Find out more about [...]

As researchers continue to work hard on discovering, and developing strains of algae that yield greater volumes of lipids to process into biofuels, new and established algal biofuel companies are studying methods of scaling up lab processes to commercial levels.
According to a recent editorial in the Scientific American, scientists and engineers in the industry are [...]

Dr. Bryan Willson, co-founder and Chief Technology Strategist of Solix Biofuels has just confirmed his participation at the 2nd Algae World Europe conference.
Dr. Willson will be speaking on Solix’s efforts in developing a low cost PBR, touching on the driving biological factors, design rationale, modeling results, and projected product costs. To date, Solix has developed [...]

Prof. Dr. Ami Ben-Amotz, Chief Scientific Advisor to Seambiotic, will be speaking at 2nd Algae World Europe in Brussels. Dr Ben-Amotz, a world-renowned marine algae expert, will discuss marine microalgae production from power plant wastes, a technology Seambiotic pioneered 2 years ago.
 
World-renowned Marine Algae expert Prof. Dr. Ami Ben-Amotz, and Chief Scientific Advisor to Seambiotic [...]