Day 2 :
Keynote Forum
Tatsuo Kaneko
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Keynote: Ultrahigh performance transparent plastics derived from microbial amino acids
Biography:
Tatsuo Kaneko has completed his Ph.D at the age of 27 years from Tokyo Tech and Assiss. Prof. studies in 3 universities including Osaka Univ. He also joined the Bioengineering Department at UCLA as a Visit Assoc Prof in 2012. He is a full professor and the head of excellent core research center in the current affiliation, JAIST. Current research interests include gels, liquid crystals, engineering plastics, and biomaterials, for which he has published 150 papers in reputed journals and received several awards such as “Gottfried Wagener prize” The 9th German Innovation Award
Abstract:
Keynote Forum
Patrizia Cinelli
University of Pisa, Italy
Keynote: Biopolyesters and bio based additives based blends and composites for application in packaging and agriculture
Biography:
Prof. Patrizia Cinelli, PhD in chemistry partly performed at the USDA, Peoria, IL, USA, is associate professor in University of Pisa for Materials Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering. She is also associate to National Research Council, Institute for the Physical and Chemical Process, Pisa, for research activity in the project AGROCYCLE GA 690142. She has over 20 years of expertise working on biobased and biodegradable polymeric blends and composites, processing, characterization, modelling, and degradability, as supported by 57 reviewed papers on scopus, 23 h-index, 1538 citations, 8 patents, and 8 book chapters. Prof. Cinelli has participated in several EC project from FP5 to current Horizon2020, dealing with sustainable materials in particular for application in packaging and agriculture, and is personally involved in the running project AGRIMAX GA720719