SPEAKERS

Peter Maienfisch studied chemistry at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland, where he received his PhD in 1983. After a post-doctoral stay at Caltech (Pasadena, CA, USA) Peter joined Animal Health Research of Ciba-Geigy in Basel in 1984 and became group leader in Insecticide Research in 1988. Following the creation of Novartis in 1996, he was appointed Head of Chemistry 2 in Crop Protection Research and with the creation of Syngenta in 2000 he became Group Leader Insecticide Chemistry, Analytics & Automation. In 2007 he took over the responsibility for portfolio management of the insecticide research projects. Since 2011 he leads the Insecticides & Seedcare Research Portfolio teams, responsible for research strategies and projects. Since 2015 he is Honorary Professor of the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Shanghai, China (http://www.ecust.edu.cn/s/2/t/209/c/1298/d/1327/list.jspy).

His track record of innovation and successful introduction of new technologies includes authorship of more than 160 scientific papers and patents. Furthermore he is the inventor of thiamethoxam (Actara®, Cruiser®, one of the leading insecticides world-wide, and a co-organizer of many international congresses, including IUPAC Crop Protection congresses and the International Symposium on Fluorine in the Life Sciences on Bürgenstock. He is a member of the Swiss & American Chemical Societies and the CHIMIA Editorial Board.

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Prof. Yaping Zhao received his Ph.D. degree from Jiangsu University in 1997. Before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Jiangnan University from 1997-1999, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University from 2009-2010. His major research focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of Chemistry and Process Engineering in Supercritical Fluids, with applications related to nanomaterials, two-dimensional materials, polymeric foams, and silica aerogels. Since 2019 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids. He has published more than 130 articles and holds more than 20 patents. He has set up a series of commercial plants in China for extracting bioactive and natural ingredients for pharmaceutical and food applications and has developed a green technique to produce graphene and other two-dimensional materials using supercritical carbon dioxide. In 2015, he was recognized as an entrepreneurship and innovation talent in Jiangsu Province, China.

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Dr Xin Jin is a professor at China University of Petroleum (East China). His research area is focused on nanocatalysis, synthesis of bio and CO2 based chemicals and life cycle assessment for chemical processes. He is the recipient of ACS Catalysis Early Career Award and China Innovation and Entrepreneur Gold Award for leading work in renewable energies.

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