Appointed by Governor Brown February 2013, Reappointed by Governor Brown January 2016. Janea A. Scott is one of five Commissioners on the California Energy Commission. The Energy Commission is the State's primary energy policy and planning agency. Ms. Scott was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in February 2013 and reappointed in January 2016 to serve as the Commission's public member. She is the lead Commissioner on transportation and western regional planning, and in 2014 Ms. Scott led the 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update. Ms. Scott serves as the chair of the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative, a public/private organization focused on accelerating the adoption of PEVs to meet California's economic, energy and environmental goals. She is also a member of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee. Prior to joining the Energy Commission, Ms. Scott worked at the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Office of the Secretary as the Deputy Counselor for Renewable Energy and at Environmental Defense Fund in both the New York and Los Angeles offices as a senior attorney in the climate and air program. Ms. Scott was also an AmeriCorps member working at the San Francisco Urban Service Project from 1996-1997. Ms. Scott earned her J.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder Law School and her M.S. and B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

energy, bioenergy

Mustapha Benmoussa, Ph.D. is a CEO at AGT Nutraceuticals LLC and founder of Atlantic Green Technology, Inc. He received his Ph.D. from Laval University in plant biotechnology and performed post-doctoral research at Indiana University and Purdue University. Dr. Benmoussa occupied different managerial and academic positions along his research and development career. He used biotechnology and processing tools in both fundamental and applied scientific research to develop solutions in nutrition and bioenergy sectors. With his 25 year of experience in plant biotechnology and food science, he developed a microalgae biorefinery technology to produce algae biofuels and high-value chemicals for food, beverages, supplement, cosmetic and energy market.

biofuels

Prof. Jürgen Karl holds a degree in chemical engineering from Technical University of Munich. In 2007 he bacem Full Professor at the Institute for Thermal Engineering, Graz University of Technology. Since 2011 Prof. Karl heads the Chair of Energy Process Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, which is part of the newly founded Energy Campus of Nuremberg (EnCN). As coordinator of several European R&D projects and founder of the start-up company agnion Inc. he was mainly responsible for the development of the Heatpipe Reformer, an innovative indirectly heated steam gasification technology for the synthesis of Second Generation Fuels.

Energetic use of biomass, Combustion and gasification in fluidized beds,Methanation and SOFC fuel cells, Carbon capture and sequestration

Dr. Gokare Aswathanarayana Ravishankar Fellow, Elected 2003 Born in Bangalore, India on 12 February 1954. Educated at Vijaya High School, Bangalore, 1964-68; Vijaya College, Bangalore, 1968-72; Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, 1973-80; B.Sc. 1972; M.Sc. 1975; Ph.D. 1981. Vice-President, R&D (Life Sciences), Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Dr. C.D. Sagar Centre for Life Sciences, Bangalore, 2012 to date. Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Baroda, 1979-80; Crop Plant Physiologist & Head, Agricultural Research Division, M/s Alembic Chemical Company, Baroda, 1980-81; INSA Research Associate, Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu - Tawi, 1981-84; Scientist & Head, Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, CFTRI, Mysore, 1984-2012; Visiting Scientist to Korea Ginseng and Tobacco Research Institute, South Korea, 1984; Visiting Scientist, University of Alabama, Tuskegee, USA, 2000; Visiting Professor: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, 2004; Kaosiung Medical University, Taiwan, 2012; Ural Federal University, Russia, 2013..

Plant biotechnology, algal biotechnology, food biotechnology, plant tissue and cell culture, secondary metabolites, metabolic engineering, biodiversity utilization, biofuels

Dr. Jianbing Li is a professor in the environmental engineering program at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Regina in 2003. He has research interests in environmental remediation, energy recovery from waste materials, environmental modeling and risk assessment, and environmental systems analysis. He has published more than 180 journal and conference papers. He served as a guest editor for three international journals, and acted as a committee member for many international conferences. He also serves as a reviewer for many international journals and a variety of national and international research funding organizations.

He has research interests in environmental remediation, energy recovery from waste materials, environmental modeling and risk assessment, and environmental systems analysis

Evgeny Katz received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry (Moscow), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983. He was a senior researcher in the Institute of Photosynthesis (Pushchino), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983-1991. In 1992-1993 he performed research at München Technische Universität (Germany) as a Humboldt fellow. Later, in 1993-2006, Dr. Katz was a Research Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 he is Milton Kerker Chaired Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, NY (USA). He has (co)authored over 440 papers in peer-reviewed journals/books with the total citation more than 30,000 (Hirsch-index 84).

His scientific interests are in the broad areas of bioelectronics, biosensors, biofuel cells and biomolecular information processing.

Dr. Jaya Shankar Tumuluru works as a senior research scientist in the Biofuels Department at the Idaho National Laboratory. He is the principle investigator for the Biomass Size Reduction, Drying and Densification project supported by the Bioenergy Technologies Office at the Department of Energy. His research is focused on biomass pre-treatments and densification technologies. Before he came to INL, Dr. Tumuluru worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork, Ireland; postdoctoral researcher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; and research associate, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. His major research areas include biomass densification using pellet mill and briquette press, biomass storage (off-gas measurements and modeling the emission rates), food processing using extrusion technologies, and food storage modeling. Dr. Tumuluru has also worked on experimental data analysis using statistical methods, evolutionary and back propagation algorithms. He received his Ph.D. from the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department at the Indian Institute Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has received numerous honors, including outstanding reviewer for Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and INL’s Exceptional Contributions Program Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scientific and Technical Publication.

Feedstock particle mechanics, biomass thermal pretreatments, biomass densification, and bioenergy technologies

Professor Ruan is the Director of Center for Biorefining and Professor of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Department at University of Minnesota, and Fellow of ASABE. He has published over 400 papers in refereed journals, books, and book chapters, and over 300 meeting papers and other reports, and holds many patents. He is also a top cited author in area of agricultural and biological sciences. He has served as guest editor and/or editorial board member of Bioresource Technology, etc. and an Editor-in-Chief and chairman of the board for International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.

Agricultural and biological sciences

Teresita Marzialetti completed her PhD in Chemistry from Universidad de Concepción, Chile, and postdoctoral studies at School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. She is an assistant profesor and the director of Catalysis and Biomass Laboratory at School of Engineering at Universidad de Concepción. She has published more than 30 journal and conference papers and has been serving as peer reviewer of many international journal of repute, and holds two patents. Her research interest is biomass conversion and valorization using thermochemical and biochemical pretreatment and processes involving heterogeneous catalysis. She is been also working on simulation and exergoenergetic analysis of biomass conversion processes.

Her research interest is biomass conversion and valorization using thermochemical and biochemical pretreatment and processes involving heterogeneous catalysis

Dr. Muhammad Farooq is a Researcher at Heriot-Watt University UK in Renewable Energy Engineering with a specific focus on the adsorption and regeneration for Carbon Capture and low-cost Bio-methane production from biogas. He is author of more than 25 Peer Reviewed Research Publications. From 2014-17, he presented research work at various International Conferences. In September 2017, he visited University of Cambridge, UK to attend an International conference funded by UK IBCarb. In April 2017, he was invited as Chair of technical session ''New trends in Biogas Production'' at 3rd International Conference on Biogas Microbiology, held from May 1-3, 2017 in Wageningen, Netherlands. He served as Technical Committee Member of International Conference on Renewable Energy and Conservation (ICREC-2017) held during June 12-14 June, 2017 in Perth, Australia. He is recipient of Travel Grant from UK ADNET to present his research work at International Conference Progress in Biogas held in Stuttgart, Germany from 8-11th March 2017. In October 2016, He was awarded with a Travel Grant by the International scientific committee of ICEEES to present his research results at International Conference on Energy for Environment and Economic Sustainability at Lahore Pakistan. He is recipient of travel grant from UK BBSRC for the oral presentation of his research findings at Biogas Science Conference in Szeged, Hungary held from 21-24th August 2016. In July, he presented his research at AD Network ECR Conference at University of Birmingham, UK supported by BBSRC UK. In June-2016, he attended 4th International Sulics Summer School on CCS Technologies-2016at Sotacarbo Research Center, Carbonia, Italy. In April-2016, he received Neilson Travel Award to attend the International Biomass Conference & Expo (IBCE) as Invited Speaker at Charlotte NC, United States. In Sept- Oct 2015, he visited Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China as Research Exchange Scholar under EU-CO2-TRIP Project funded by Marie Curie Actions IRSES for Clean Coal Energy Generation. In Aug-2015, he presented research findings at International Bio-energy Conference in Valencia Spain. In June-2015, he presented his work at ADBA-2015 held in NEC Birmingham, UK. During 2014, he attended & presented at various conferences in UK including Super-gen Bio-Energy Hub Annual Conference-2014 at Aston Conference Birmingham UK, Energy academy Conference Edinburgh UK and IMPEE Conference Heriot-Watt University, UK. He received UK ESRN Travel award to attend UK Energy Storage Confernce-2014 at University of Warwick UK. He also worked as Volunteer Organizer for Scottish Carbon, Capture and Storage Conference-2014 at Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, UK.

Renewable Energy Engineering with a specific focus on the adsorption and regeneration for Carbon Capture and low-cost Bio-methane production from biogas

Andréia Anschau received her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 2014 at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She became professor at Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Department at Federal University of Technology (UTFPR) in 2015. Since 2017 she cordinates the Master Program in Biotechnology at UTFPR. Professor Anschau is currently leading a multidisciplinary team of scientists, working in a broad spectrum of interests, focusing on yeast and microalgae fermentation, bioenergy, biomass and bioprocessing. She is working on the utilization of different waste materials as alternative, cheap and renewable substrates for the production of value added products such as biofuels

She is working on the utilization of different waste materials as alternative, cheap and renewable substrates for the production of value added products such as biofuels.

Doctorate Degree Supervisor for Chemical Engineering Students (Saja Mohsin Jabar) from 1/9/2018, Thesis ''Application of Nanoporous Material in a Membrane Adsorption Reactor (MAR) as an Integral System for Removal of Pollutant from Wastewater''. Master Degree Supervisor for Chemical Engineering Students (Ali Mohammed Hamza) from 24/12/2017, Dissertation: “Evaluation the Surface Modification of Magnetic Nanoporous Adsorbents in Drug Delivery System”.

•Electrochemical coating process. •Membrane separations; water and wastewater treatment. •Nanoporous Application as a catalyst in Petroleum refinery process, Biodiesel production and as adsorbents for purification of water and wastewater treatments. •Drug Delivery System by Nanoporous Materials.

Mr. Muhammad Usman, Former Director General of Agricultural Research System, Government of Pakistan who retired from service after a spotless career of about 35 years with senior level experience on research and development of integrated agricultural industries with regard to livestock and dairy development, poultry, aquaculture and apiculture, sustainable agricultural production system, fruits and vegetable, seed production, bioenergy and other cash crops

Basically, Mr. Usman is an Agricultural scientist, specialized himself on the improvement and advance breeding methodology of food and feed legumes from (ICARDA) from March – June 1990 at Aleppo- Syria, release several varieties and has more than 60 publications. During the service, Mr. Usman was responsible for Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Planning of project, financial activities and the research work conducted in Pakistan as per training obtained from the University of Queensland-Australia during February 1993.