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Anca Lucia has a PhD degree in materials chemistry from the National Graduate School in Chemistry, Mulhouse – FRANCE and a chemical engineer degree from Polytechnic International University of Timisoara (Romania) Anca boasts an extensive 10 years-experience in scientific research on the elaboration and characterization of organic- inorganic composites clay-biopolymer (macro-algae extracts). She devised four

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Emilio Molina Grima is the Chair of the Group of Biotechnology of Marine Microalgae in the University of Almería. He coordinated a multinational European Project on the production and processing of lipids from algae, and participated in four others; and coordinated several national R&D ones. He received the Scientific and Technological research prize of Almería

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Jorge Arenas-Vidal is Founder and CEO of the BioSerentia Group, a Business Accelerator for Life Sciences and Biotechnology Ventures and Projects. He is also co-founder and serves as interim CEO at BIOMASSBOOSTER, a functional genomics company of the Group devoted to provide disruptive biotech solutions to meet the efficiency challenges in the biofuels industry. He

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Juan Tomas Hernani is the General Secretary for Innovation within Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation since April 2009 and the President of CDTI. He is married with 3 children. He is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Bilbao; he is an economist and also hosts a Master of Science (M.Sc) in advanced manufacturing

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Jaime García Blázquez is a Graduate in Law & holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Regulations since 1996. He was Technical Consultant until 1998 when he joined Iberia Airlines´s environmental department. He has been Iberia´s Corporate Environmental Affairs Director since 2007, representing the company at IATA´s (the International Air Transport Association) Environmental Committee. 3rd Algae

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Professor Keith Cowan is Director of the Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Rhodes University (EBRU) in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is also owner of AKConsulting and as an independent consultant provides scientific management consulting services to chemical and agrichemical companies, national research funding agencies, other universities, and individual scientists. Prior to joining EBRU he was senior

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Frank Rogalla is Director of Innovation and Technology of Aqualia in Madrid, Spain, a private utility providing water and wastewater services for more than 25 M people. Previously he was Global Process and Technology Leader for a large Construction and Engineering Contractor, Black & Veatch, based in London, UK. After his studies of Environmental Engineering

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Stephanie Koch graduated in Marine Environmental Sciences (Diploma) at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. She started to work with microalgae as feed for aquaculture species at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. During her diploma thesis she investigated the effect of pCO2 on growth and calcification of Emiliania huxleyi. Stephanie joined E.ON Hanse in 2008 working

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Dr. 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

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Bill Barclay, Ph.D. is Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Martek Biosciences Corporation, a DSM Company.  In this position, Bill works in support of both Martek’s intellectual property and innovation teams.  Bill is responsible for developing and using IP-based information to help drive innovation within Martek and to improve the Company’s overall strategic perspective.  He also

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Miguel G. Guerrero is full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Sevilla (Spain), and develops his research activity at the the Instituto de Bioquimica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis (IBVF) – Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis, a Joint Research Center established between the University of Seville and CSIC, the Spanish Research Council.

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Augusto Rodriguez-Villa obtained a Law Degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Since graduating at age 22, Augusto has devoted his entire professional career to promoting and developing business initiatives and companies, that have resulted in the creation of 3,500 jobs. He has represented, in Spain and abroad, the interests of a number of

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Born in Rome, Stefano graduated in Chemistry at Milan University. Since 1986 he has been working for ENI Group in the fields of pipeline flow assurance and chemical kinetics for industrial catalysis and polymer degradation in the Chemical Engineering Department as researcher. Now he is involved in a project for biodiesel production from biomass. 3rd

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Enrique Espí received his BSc and MSc in Macromolecular Chemistry from the Universidad del País Vasco (University of the Basque Country), Spain, before obtaining his PhD in Chemistry from the same University. Since 1992, he has been with Repsol, a Spanish petrochemical company, where has worked in internal, national and international projects about polymeric materials,

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Dr. Bernardo Llamas is a Mines Engineer, he obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 2007. He’s currently an Associate Professor in the UPM, Engineering College (ETSI). Since 2006 he has been involved in several projects related to CO2 reduction emissions with focus on CO2 bio-fixation with microalgae. He holds one

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