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Researcher within the Sustainable Transport area at Leartiker. PhD on Materials Science and Technology by the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU in 2020. Before, she carried out Physics and Electronics Engineering Bachelor’s degrees and New Materials’ Master’s degree in the University of the Basque Country. During the last 7 years she has focused on the characterization, modelling and simulation of elastomeric materials and components, mainly for the automotive sector. She has also participated and led several research projects and published several scientific papers at high standard international journals. Currently at Leartiker, her research activities are mainly focused on the study of the dynamic mechanical behaviour and durability of elastomer materials (rubber and TPEs), not only in terms of characterization bat also in modelling or digitalization strategies.
Dr. Pierre Furtwengler joined Renault engineering team in 2018 and is in charge of polymer material development and prescription for under bonnet applications. He is know technical polymer specialist for Renault Group. He obtained his PhD at ECPM (Strasbourg) in the BioTeam in renewable polyol synthesis from sorbitol and PU foams formulation. He received the 2018 best PhD award from French Plastic Engineer Society (SFIP).
Lennaert Klerk obtained a MSc in both Physics and Chemistry and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Utrecht University. Following this he made the move to Industry, first working at the resins business of DSM, then moving to AkzoNobel, where he had several roles first in the corporate analytical department, and later in a corporate open innovation role. In 2019 he joined Kraton as the European technical manager for Specialty polymers and since 2022 he is the regional technical manager for all Kraton Polymer activities in Europe. activities in Europe.
Oliver spent the last eight years in various functions in the elastomer and TPV business. At ExxonMobil he was account manager for automotive customers in Europe before moving into a technical role supporting the EPDM and TPV industry. He then oversaw sales planning for elastomers in Europe and Americas before moving into his current role where he is focusing on new application developments and on sustainability with Santoprene® TPV in Europe. Oliver holds Master degrees in mechanical engineering and sales engineering and is based in Germany.
Jose Manuel Moises Gonzalez, ReNeuvo Group Inc. President & CEO. Jose Gonzales graduated with a Degree in Engineering, Master’s Degree in Communications and B.Sc. with Honors in Microwave Telecommunications from the University of Budapest. Participated in the creation of six companies, three of which are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Also has developed and implemented market research strategies to support new product distribution channels in Canada, Europe and Latin America.
Olu is a consultant at NexantECA with 9 years of experience across the oil and gas value chain. He has experience in assessing production economics, supply-demand fundamentals as well as preparing price forecasts spanning the petrochemical industry value chain. He is a part of NexantECA's subscriptions analysis of profitability and pricing across the global petrochemical industry.
Liliana Joosten received her masters degree at Maastricht University in Biobased Materials in 2020, working on the synthesis and processing of UHMW PA. Since October 2020 she is part of the VITRIMAT consortium, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant agreement No 860911, at University Claude Bernard Lyon and is doing research in the area of processing of vitrimers.
Daisuke Koda received his Master Degree in Bio-engineering chemistry from Kyushu University, Japan in 2009. He immediately joined Kuraray Co.,Ltd. and had been developing bio-based elastomer products and functionalized polymers.
After his career on market development of elastomer products in 2020-2021, he joined Elastomer Business Unit in Kuraray Europe GmbH as a manager of technical service and market development.
Nick White is Vice President of Business Development, Process Oils at Ergon, Inc., and has 20 years of experience providing technical and commercial solutions to the polymer and process oil industries. Starting his career as a technical salesperson for Process Oils Inc., Nick has helped customers to incorporate process oils into various process oil applications over the years. Nick has been particularly active in the past 10 years, helping process oil customers find a fit for plant-based and recycled molecules.
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