10^th World Congress on Green Chemistry and Technology July 10-11, 2019 Paris, France | HOLIDAY INN PARIS - PORTE DE CLICHY

Dr. Dimitris Argyropoulos, Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina State University, is internationally recognized for his leading contributions to Green Chemistry using wood biopolymers. His work focuses at promoting our understanding of the structure and reactivity of lignin and the development novel NMR and material science techniques for the structural elucidation and the upgrading of these biopolymers representing otherwise unsolved, intractable problems in lignin based material’s chemistry. The efforts of his research group have been disseminated in excess of 200 scientific papers, numerous scientific conferences and invited presentations.

His research interests focuses at promoting our understanding of the structure and reactivity of lignin and the development novel NMR and material science techniques for the structural elucidation and the upgrading of these biopolymers representing otherwise unsolved, intractable problems in lignin based material’s chemistry.

Alexander O. Terent’ev was born in Moscow, in 1973. PhD degree (2000) and D.Sc. degree (2009). At this time he is Professor in D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Head of the laboratory in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, and Head of the laboratory in All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology.

His interests are organic chemistry, medical and agricultural chemistry, chemical technology. He published 120 research papers and 30 patents.

Robert Tuba obtained his MSc (1998) and PhD (2003) degree from University of Veszprém (University of Pannonia) with Professor Ferenc Ungváry. After a postdoctoral study at Eötvös Lorándt University with Professor István T. Horváth he joined the research group of Professor John A. Gladysz at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg as Alexander von Humboldt research fellow. From 2007 he was working at the GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals as process development supervisor. In 2011, he joined the Texas A&M University at Qatar as assistant research scientists. He was visiting associate in chemistry in California Institute of Technology at the research group of Professor Robert H. Grubbs in 2013. He is currently Head of Green Chemistry Research Group at Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RCNS-HAS).

His research interests include Homogeneous catalysis, organometallic chemistry, Olefin metathesis, Material science, green chemistry, environmental and chemical engineering.

Virinder Parmar, born on 2nd November 1948 at Allahabad (India) is a Naturalized US Citizen. He did B.Sc. Honors, M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Delhi (India), and has worked for nearly 10 years as a Postdoctoral/Visiting Scientist at Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), NYU-Poly and MIT (USA); the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London, UK). He has been a faculty at St. Stephen’s College and the University of Delhi for 44 years, he recently retired as Full Professor of Chemistry and has served as Head of the Department of Chemistry and as Chairman of the Board of Research Studies, and Provost of Gwyer Hall at this University. He has been a Visiting Full Professor at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanomedicine (INSET), University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML, USA) from March 2001 to December 2005, an Honorary Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) since March 2008, a Visiting Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University (IUPUI, Indianapolis, USA) in May-June 2015, an Adjunct Professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn (LIU, New York, USA) in January-April 2013, a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth (INADS, MA, USA) since November 2016 and a Visiting Professor at the Central University of Haryana (CUH, India) since February 2016. He was appointed Full Tenured Professor of Chemistry & First Head of the Department of Nanoscience of the newly formed Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering (JSNN) at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG, USA). He has been an awardee of Medals for Excellence in Research from the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI, Bangalore) for the year 2001 and of the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB, Lucknow) for the year 2009. He has been a recipient of the Academic Staff Award from the EXPERTS II Consortium of the European Union (EU) in December 2012 and April 2013.

Professor Parmar’s research interests include: Green/Sustainable Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Organic Synthesis, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Medicinal Chemistry, Biocatalysis and the Chemistry of Natural Products. He has mentored 85 Ph. D. and Postdoctoral Scientists in several Belgian, British, Canadian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indian and US Universities, and has published 492 research papers (in 2018: 7; in 2017: 7; in 2016: 11) in journals of high repute (published by ACS, RSC, Elsevier, Wiley, VCH, MDPI, Springer, Thieme, etc.; h-Index: 43/35; Citation Index: 47.26; Number of Citations: 8,300; Number of Reads: 169,000; Number of Readers: 4,200) in addition to being co inventor on 21 Patents and having co-authored six Books & Edited six special Issues of Journals. He has handled thirty two research projects involving grants of nearly US Dollars 11.60 million obtained from various agencies and corporations in USA, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy and India in international collaboration with twenty six research groups in USA, UK, Russia, Italy, India, Germany, France, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, The Netherlands and Belgium. He has organized 26 conferences/symposia/seminars/workshops/colloquia in the areas of his research interests. He has delivered Invited / Plenary Lectures at 147 international meetings and has given 398 Research Seminars at 293 Institutions in 31 Countries across the Globe. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal 'Biocatalysis and Biotransformation', and has been on the Editorial Boards of the Journals: ChemSusChem, Mendeleev Communications, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Natural Product Communications, Arkivoc, Molecules and ISRN Medicinal Chemistry. He is a regular reviewer for several journals published by the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry (London), Elsevier & Wiley-VCH, etc., and is a member of the IUPAC’s Subcommittee on Biomolecular Chemistry and the Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD).

Gerard Caneba is working as professor in chemical engineering department at Michigan Technological University, USA. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at University of California—Berkeley Campus.With collaboration and financial support of NASA-Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas), Dr. Caneba’s group embarked on research involving polymer composites with single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Current efforts in this area involve the formulation of SWCNT/ polymer composite films for use as solar energy absorbers in building interior surfaces and lightweight radiation shields.

His research interests includes controlled chain polymerizations, radiation-initiated FRRPP, thermoreversible nanobiomaterials, sustainability polymer materials/systems, enhanced oil recovery and cleanup operations, carbon Nanotube/polymer composites

Zhuohua Sun is a research scientist in the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) with Prof. Avelino Corma. He obtained the PhD degree in 2018 in University of Groningen under the supervison of Prof. Katalin Barta and Prof. Ben L Feringa. His research interest lies in the development of novel heterogeneous catalysts for the production of fine chemicals and catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass.

His research interest lies in the development of novel heterogeneous catalysts for the production of fine chemicals and catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. He has published 11 papers in Chem. Rev., Nat. Catal., JACS, Green Chem. and other high impact journals.