Invited Speakers

Bader M. Al Saleem

Manager of Renewable Energy Project, Ma'aden Corporate

Jeremy Fetvedt

Chief Engineer, 8 Rivers Capital

Wes Stein

Chief Technologist, Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI)

Trevor Brown

Executive Director, Ammonia Energy Association

Alessandro Stagni

Assistant Professor, Chemical Plants, Politecnico di Milano

Mehdi Jafarian

Senior Research Associate, University of Adelaoide’s Centre for Energy Technology

Chunfeng Song

Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University

Emiliano Casati

Postdoctoral Research Associate, PREC group, ETH Zurich

Johannes Schenk

Professor, Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy, Montanuniversität Leoben and K1-MET GmbH, Leoben, Austria

Graham Nathan

Professor, Director Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide

Alan Weimer

Clark Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado

Jon Gibbins

Professor of CCS, University of Sheffield

Jenny Larfeldt

Adjunct Professor, Chalmers University

Akihiro Hayakawa

Associate Professor, Tohoku University

Ashvin Hosangadi

Vice President & Co-founder, CRAFT Tech

Cédric Philibert

Senior Analyst of Energy and Climate, IFRI, Centre Energy and Climate, and IEA (ret.)

Wenting Sun

Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

​Subith Vasu

Associate Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida

Mourad Younes

Science Specialist, Saudi Aramco Research & Development Center

Andrea Gruber

Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Energy Research

Mohammed Juaied

Research Science Consultant of Technology Strategy & Planning, Saudi Aramco

Christine Mounaïm-Rousselle

Full Professor, University of Orléans

Wojciech Lipiński

Professor, Australian National University

Anne Dekeukelaere

Managing Director & Co Founding Partner, Cementis

Uwe Riedel

Professor, University of Stuttgart. Director of the DLR-Institute

​Agustin Valera-Medina

Reader/Associate Professor, Cardiff School of Engineering

KAUST Speakers

Ayman Elbaz

Senior Research Scientist, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Gaetano Magnotti

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Bassam Dally

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Thibault Guiberti

Research Scientist, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Session Chair

Aldo Steinfeld

Full Professor, Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich

James Turner

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Hong G. Im

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

​Mani Sarathy

Associate Director of Clean Combustion Research Center and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

William L. Roberts

Director, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Vice President for Research

Donal D. C. Bradley

Vice President for Research Distinguished Professor, Materials Physics & Device Engineering, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia