Georges J. Kipouros has both a Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering and an M.A.Sc. in Metallurgy and Materials Science from University of Toronto. He has held many senior positions in academia at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and the University of Tokyo. Currently he holds a Professor Emeritus position at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dr. Hong Li holds a M.Sc. in Geomechanics and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in Mines. He has held various positions in industry with the Integrated Seismic System International (ISS), the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) of Japan, Geo-science Research Laboratory (GRL) Co. Ltd, the Japan branch of ANSYS Corporation, Geo-sphere Environmental Technology Corporation in Tokyo, and the Alberta Innovative Research Future (AITF). He is currently a Professor at Dalian University of Technology in China.

Ioannis V. Yentekakis graduated in 1983 from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, with a Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor C.G. Vayenas. From 1987-1888 he was employed as postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University, NJ, USA. In 1988 he returned to Greece, joined the ICE-HT/FORTH in Patras and the department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in both institutions. From 1995-2001 he served as Faculty Member (Lecturer and Assistant Professor) in the field of “Catalytic and Electro-catalytic Processes” at the University of Patras. Then, in 2001 he was elected as Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and in 2006 became a Full Professor. In 2013 he moved to the School of Environmental Engineering of TUC, where he is working up to today. For many years (1989-today), he sustains very close collaboration (frequent visits as Visiting Professor) with the department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, UK (Prof. R.M. Lambert).

Dr. Aref Lashin has obtained his Ph.D from Freiberg University of Mining and Technology through a joint program between Freiberg University-Germany and Benha University-Egypt. Currently he is working as a Associate Professor at the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University. He has authored more than 90 technical articles and supervised many Master’s and Ph.D students. Recently he has been involved with a set of geothermal energy projects in Saudi Arabia that incorporate international energy experts.

Dr. Mohamed Amish is a Program Leader in Oil and Gas Engineering. Mohamed’s teaching and professional practice and recognition are based on thirty-three years’ involvement with the oil and gas industry, comprised of fifteen years of professional academic teaching with Robert Gordon University (RGU) and eighteen years of varied oil field experience, specialising mainly in Petroleum Engineering.

Dr. Abdukarem Amhamed is a Chemical Engineer by training with more than 20 years of experience in the industry sector. He obtained his MSc in 2003 from Salford University, UK and PhD in 2009 from Bradford University, UK. He has held many senior research and management positions in industry including Strategic Research Project Lead between Qatar Petroleum and UOP Honeywell USA and previously as General Managing Director of Sirte Oil and Gas Company, Libya, among other senior roles. Currently he dedicates most of his time to the Qatar Environmental & Engineering Research Institute (QEERI).

Dr. Lateef Akanji holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Ibadan and Imperial College London, respectively. He worked in the petroleum industry for 11 years before moving into academia as an Assistant Professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He then moved to the United Kingdom and took a position as the Postgraduate Coordinator of Petroleum and Gas Engineering Programme at the University of Salford. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer and the MSc Petroleum Engineering Programme Coordinator at the University of Aberdeen.

Dr. Mehdi Ostadhassan holds M.S. degrees in Petroleum Engineering and Petroleum Geophysics and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering. He has worldwide experience in both industry and academia. Currently he is an Assistant Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of North Dakota.

Dr. Zaman ZiabakhshGanji holds a MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tehran and a PhD in Geosciences from VU University Amsterdam. He worked in industry for 4 years in reservoir engineering at Research Institute of Petroleum Industry and National Iranian Oil Company before moving to academia. He is currently completing his postdoctoral research at Delft University of Technology.

Dr. Abouzar Mirzaei Paiaman is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Petroleum University of Technology and Senior Petroleum Engineer at NISOC. He has held positions in both industry and academia and has published more than 40 papers in top journals of petroleum/chemical engineering and SPE conferences.

Dr. Ravi Sharma has a Masters of Applied Geophysics degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. He has held positions in in the Petroleum industry for 7 years at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, BP, Marathon Oil Corporation, Conoco Phillips, and the FerVID Group. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Naif Alqahtani, Ph.D. is an assistant research professor in petroleum engineering at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. Dr. Alqahtani holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum enginnering from Colorado School of Mines. 

Dr. Pedram Mahzari holds a M.Sc. degree in Reservoir Engineering and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering. He currently is a Research Associate at Heroit-Watt University.

Dr. Dhawal Shah holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore with the Singapore-MIT Alliance. He has held positions in academia for 6 years and is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.

Dr. Fiorenza Deon holds a Master's degree in Geology/ Mineralogy from La Sapienza University in Italy and a PhD in Mineralogy from Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) in Potsdam, Germany. Currently she is working on her postdoctoral research at Delft University of Technology in the Petroleum Engineering Department where she  primarily works with the Geothermal Capacity Building Program (GEOCAP).

Dr. David Alique obtained his grade in Chemical Engineering by University Rey Juan Carlos in 2004. After working for Repsol in an oil-refinery, his personal career has been focused on research, particularly on development of Pdmembranes for H2 separation in membrane-reactors. He finished the European PhD studies in 2014 with the maximum mark Cum Laude. He received financial support from FP7 Marie-Curie Actions for participation in European membrane courses and he spent 4 months in the University of Bologna (Italy) during 2008, completing the mobility experience with a postdoctoral stay in ENEA (Italy) during 2015. He has actively participated in 7 research projects, disseminating the main results in 35 international conferences, 8 papers in recognized indexed journals with high-IP and 1 book chapter. He also acts as reviewer for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and Desalination. Currently, he works as full-time Associate Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain).