Ingvar Landälv is born 1950 and is a Swedish citizen. He graduated in 1975 with a MSc in Physics & Chemistry. He has more than 30 years experience of process R&D, design, engineering, construction and operation of gasification based process plants based on oil, coal and biomass as feedstock. He holds a number of patents [...]

As Chief Marketing Officer, Eelco focuses on marketing bio-methanol as an attractive, sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative for a variety of fuel and other applications. Eelco is also involved in the introduction of a bio-fuel certificatesystem that captures relevant sustainability data and can be traded internationally. BTL & Bio-Based Chemicals 2010 Rotterdam Speaker Day 2 [...]

Sean Simpson holds a PhD from York University and a Masters degree from Nottingham University, UK. Prior to founding LanzaTech in 2005, Sean had several years experience in bio-products development working with Hoffmann La-Roche in Basel, Switzerland, the Japan International Research Centre for Agricultural Sciences, and Genesis R&D in Auckland, New Zealand. BTL & Bio-Based [...]

Michiel Carbo (1978) graduated from the Technical University of Eindhoven with a Master’s degree in studied Building Services, and attended the postgraduate course ‘Process and Equipment Design’ at the Chemical Engineering department of Delft University of Technology. He has been with the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) for 6.5 years, and conducted research [...]

Stephen Piccot serves as Director of Advanced Energy and Transportation Technologies for Southern Research Institute and has overall responsibility for the Institutes operations in North Carolina.  He has  30 years of experience executing and leading environmental, energy and transportation technology research, development, and demonstration efforts.  Mr. Piccot founded the Clean Energy Development Center in Durham, [...]

Spencer Swayze is Senior Manager of Business Development for Ceres Inc. He joined Ceres in 2006 to build the company’s dedicated energy crop business for biofuel and biochemical applications. Prior to Ceres, Spencer was an Associate at PTV Sciences in Austin, TX.  Spencer holds an MBA from The McCombs School of Business at the University [...]

Juliette Imbach graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Chemistry in Paris where she did a PhD in Solid Chemistry. Later, she worked for a consulting company specialized in innovation for 6 years where she developed the energy business unit. In 2007, she integrated a techno economic service in the CEA, a French government-funded technological research [...]

Dr. Stefan Tostmann is presently the Head of Unit, Energy Technologies and Research Co-ordination, 2009. He studied law in Germany & France in 1980- 1985 and obtained his PhD from the  Free University of Berlin, 1998 He has led activities to focus EU Energy Research Work Programme on less projects with more impact, in line [...]

New Zealand-based clean technology company LanzaTech has attracted US$18M Series B financing from investors led by China focused venture capital firm Qiming Ventures. LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. The financing follows LanzaTech’s signing with Baosteel, China’s largest steel and iron conglomerate, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences [...]

The French CEA (the Atomic Energy Commission, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique, now to be called the Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission) and its industrial and financial partners are launching the first phase of construction of a pilot thermochemical biomass-to-liquids (BTL) unit in Bure Saudron, which is located 80 km from Nancy in northeastern France. The [...]