Plenary & Keynote speakers

Plenary Lecturers

	Professor Erik Heeres University of Groningen, the Netherlands VALORIZATION OF SOLID BIOMASS RESIDUES (LIGNINS AND HUMINS) USING CATALYTIC APPROACHES
	Professor Simoni Meneghetti Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Instituto de Química e Biotecnologia, Laboratório de Biocombustíveis e Energia – LaBEn, Maceió, Brazil EXAMPLES OF CATALYTIC SYSTEMS ABLE TO BE APPLIED IN BIOREFINERIES
	Professor Sergei Varfolomeev Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, Russia CHEMISTRY OF BIOMASS: NOVEL CATALYTICAL DEPOLYMERIZATION PROCESSES, NOVEL BIOFUELS, NOVEL BIOPLASTICS
	Professor David Chiaramonti University of Florence, Italy INDUSTRIAL-SCALE PYROLYSIS FOR ENERGY AND PRODUCTS: WHICH OPPORTUNITIES TO PRIORITIZE?
	Professor Jose A. Lopez-Sanchez University of Liverpool, United Kingdom UNCONVENTIONAL CATALYTIC ROUTES FOR THE VALORISATION OF BIOMASS USING LIGHT AND MICROWAVES
	Dr. Jean-François Joly IFP Energies Nouvelles, Lyon, France FUELS AND CHEMICALS PRODUCTION FROM BIOMASS: SOME SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES FOR ACCELERATING INNOVATION AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
Keynote Lecturers
	Professor Dr. S.R.A. Kersten University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF BIOMASS PYROLYSIS
	Professor Mark Tsodikov A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, Moscow, Russia PECULIARITIES OF POISONING DEGRADATION AND PLASMA-CATALYTIC LIGNIN REFORMING UNDER MICROWAVE IRRADIATION
	Professor Francesco Frusteri Institute CNR-ITAE “Nicola Giordano”, Messina, Italy DME SYNTHESIS BY CO2 HYDROGENATION ON HYBRID CATALYTIC SYSTEMS
	Professor Dmitry Murzin Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland CATALYSIS BY BASES IN BIOMASS VALORIZATION
	Professor Karen Wilson Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom DESIGNER CATALYSTS FOR BIOFUELS SYNTHESIS
	Professor Boris Kuznetsov Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia DEVELOPMENT OF NEWINTEGRATED CATALYTIC PROCESSES OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS VALORIZATION INTO VALUABLE CHEMICAL PRODUCTS