KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Pierangela Cristiani chair the Working party “Microbial corrosion” (WP10) of the European Federation of Corrosion since 2013. Master Degree in Biology (Università degli Studi di Milano), she early led researches in the fields of microbial corrosion and antifouling treatments employed at the Italian National power utility ENEL. After the privatization of ENEL and the delivery of Research Departments to the private company CESI SpA, her career has continued in a succession of both European and Italian research projects and services for industrial companies (in Europe and USA). Since 2006, she returned exclusively devoted to public research activities, reversing the company back to public research entity named "Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico - RSE". The development of bio-electrochemical systems of energy interest and in a logic of power-to-gas, such as microbial fuel cells and microbial electrosynthesis is her other main research line, since 2008. Biomass energetic processes, biological risk assessment for industrial facilities, risk assessment of geological gas storage, natural water environment protection, and other topics complete her expertise. Her research is carried out in collaboration with several Universities and Institutes, producing more than 100 journal papers and more than 150 congress publications.
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Dr. Javaherdashti has a background in materials science and metallurgical engineering. He has been involved in more than 400 corrosion management projects in various industries including oil & gas and power plants worldwide. Leading author of eight books published by publishers such as Springer, CRC Press, Elsevier and recently Wiley, Dr. Javaherdashti has authored several research papers and root cause analysis reports. His expertise is in corrosion management, Microbial corrosion (MIC), mathematical modelling and future studies.
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He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the State Key Laboratory for Corrosion and Protection, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China courtesy of TWAS – CAS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award from May 2009 – April 2010 and a visiting researcher at Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical Chemistry (INIFTA), La Plata, Argentina courtesy of TWAS – UNESCO Associateship appointment. He has 23 years’ experience in teaching and research in the University system. He has led many research projects in the area of corrosion mitigation such as corrosion inhibitor development in acidic condition, corrosion inhibitor development for oil and gas industry. He has attracted a research grant worth over 1.5 million US dollars as a principal investigator (PI) and co-investigation (Co-I). He has authored/co-authored over 150 research articles in international peer reviewed journals mostly ISI rated including several critical reviews and book chapters and some of his publications have been highly cited. He is on the editorial board of thirteen (13) international journals and served as a reviewer to more than one hundred and fifty (150) international journals. He has three (3) granted United States patents and other invention disclosures. He is the co-editor of a book entitled “Corrosion Inhibitors in the Oil and Gas Industry” published by Wiley in 2020 and an author of the book “Polymeric Materials in Corrosion Inhibition: Fundamentals and Applications to be published by Elsevier in 2022. His research interests is extensively on investigation of corrosion and corrosion inhibition phenomena in different environments. His current research is on polymer composites/nanocomposites for corrosion protection and environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitors development for industrial metals. He is a member of a number of professional Associations including International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), American Chemical Society (ACS), and Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN) amongst others. |
Dr. Saviour A. Umoren is currently working at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials (IRC-AM), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
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His research activities were mainly carried out in the engineering laboratories of the University of Bergamo. The research topics from 2006 to date have mainly concerned metal materials, corrosion and durability of materials for the civil and industrial sector, science and technology of cementitious materials. His researches addressed mainly focused on the typical issues of the sd. ING-IND / 22: the study of metal materials, corrosion of materials, cementitious materials and microstructural investigation. The topics concerned the characterization, evaluation of the mechanical and rheological behavior of cementitious materials, the study of particular forms, corrosion mechanisms and protection techniques, the characterization and fractographic and morphological investigation of materials. The research carried out in the field of corrosion and protection of metallic materials aimed to the study of stress corrosion cracking (EAC) and hydrogen embrittlement of high strength low alloy steels (HSLA ) for the transport of high pressure gas over long distances. Problems related to NN-SCC (Near Neutral Stress Corrosion Cracking) phenomena found on underground pipes have been addressed. The study of corrosion and SCC of pipeline steels was extended as part of research on CCTS (CO2 Capture Transport and Storage). In the context of corrosion problems in industrial plants and infrastructures, the cooperation with the main public and private companies is active since several years for the study of corrosion problems in geothermal environments, in plants for the production of bio-fuels, on infrastructures of the motorway network and railways, also of historical / architectural importance. Issues related to the design of cathodic protection systems of structures subject to general corrosion were also faced. In particular, studies have been carried out to simulate by finite elements methods the potential and current distribution under cathodic protection of systems with distributed linear anodes (bottoms of the storage tanks), the evaluation of corrosion phenomena due to electrical interference in drinking water pipes and galvanic anodes or impressed current systems design for naval applications. As part of the corrosion problems of light alloys, researches have been performed to evaluate the behavior of coated magnesium alloys for bio-medical applications. More recently, a new trend has been activated linked to the study of the corrosion behavior 3D printed materials manufactured by innovative additive manufacturing techniques and new friction joining technologies (Friction Stir Welding, FSW). The research on the durability of the structures concerned the study of problems related to the corrosion of steel reinforcing bars for reinforced concrete structures and prevention through the use of appropriate mix inhibitors. |
Dr. S.Lorenzi is currently working in the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DISA), University of Bergamo.
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He conducts scientific studies on corrosion prevention and corrosion-resistant material technologies with researchers at various universities in France, Italy, Turkey and Spain.
Currently, Dr. Ben Amor and his team continue to work on the following topics;
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Dr. Ben Amor is full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (HIEST). He is currently director of Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (HIEST) in Carthage University. |
He was involved in field development projects, support to field operations, Research & Development projects, internal training of young engineers, and teaching at universities. He published over 70 papers. He received the NACE Fellow honour award in 2010 and the Ohio University Senior Research Fellow Award in 2016.He is a NACE certified CP specialist. During his carrier he was seconded to ZADCO (UAE), Qatargas (Houston), PTTEP (Thailand), Total Netherlands and The Petroleum Institute (UAE). He joined Total in 1982 and received his PhD degree Electrochemistry in 1981 from INPG Grenoble / France. |
Before retirement, Dr Yves Gunaltun was one of the corrosion experts at Total headquarters. |
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Dr. İlker Bekir Topçu is currently professor in the Civil Engineering Department, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey. He graduated from Engineering and Architecture of State Academy in 1980, and obtained his Master’s degree from the Institute of Science, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey, in 1984 and joined the teaching profession as a research assistant in 1982 at the Anadolu University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Science, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 1988. He has worked as a visiting scientist at Lehigh University, from 1990 to 1992, and Northwestern University, from 1996 to 1997. He has published 200 refereed papers in international and national journals, 229 proceedings papers in international and national congress and symposiums, 13 book chapters and 57 actual papers. His papers cited more than 9700. He supervised 16 PhD and 43 Ms Thesis. His research interests are lightweight, heavyweight and high-strength concretes, concretes using industrial wastes such as fly ash, bottom ash, silica fume, waste tire, waste glass and waste concrete, Khorasan mortars, concrete as a composite material, using admixtures and additives in concrete, Ferrocement and using artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic techniques in concrete technology. He is currently supervising 8 Ph D and 8 Ms Thesis. Married and has a daughter. In 2018, ASCE 2017 Outstanding Reviewer was selected. In 2019, it became the 4th in the Top Ten Awards given by the ESOGÜ Rectorate for academic publications and 11th in 2020. In July 2020 prepared by a team of US and Dutch scientists, scientists around the world who took part in the 196 most influential people from science to the list of Turkey. In an article prepared by Stanford University researchers in October 2020, it was among the top 2% of the names in the world in the evaluation made according to various citation indicators such as citation, h-index, hm-index. He has been ranked 30th in the world and 1st in Turkey amongst 27014 authors in the subject area of "Building and Construction" in a list of top scientists subject-wise, this independent study conducted by Stanford University Scientists. In World Scientist and University Rankings 2021, it was ranked 1st in ESOGÜ and 190th in Turkey with h-index 45, i-10 index 83 and 8711 citations. In 2021, he ranked 43rd among scientists in Turkey. He was also deemed worthy of the "Eskişehir Osmangazi University 2021 Honor Award" for his contributions to the field of Building Materials with his scientific studies that he has carried out for more than 40 years in his department and for pioneering the establishment of laboratories in this field at university.
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His subject expertise and focus is on corrosion, corrosion control, corrosion-resistant materials and corrosion inhibitors – principles and mechanisms. He is the first researcher who used Dynamic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (DEIS) method in corrosion inhibitor studies. He investigates the long term evolution of impedance in a corrosion cell on adding an inhibitor. Through this technique, he can quantify and qualify the effectiveness of inhibitors and coatings. Besides corrosion, he has research interests in plastic and rubber material technology, also plastic and rubber additives. His dynamic and well-equipped laboratory has currently become a knowledge and research centre for many postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students, masters and bachelor’s degree students. Corrosion-resistant steel, Al, Cu and brass alloys, Mg-based bioresorbable medical implants and corrosion-resistant construction materials are some of the ongoing topics for research in his laboratory. He has given numerous invited lectures at many national and international conferences as well as he has authored more than 55 SCI scientific papers in high impact journals. He has seven ongoing patents to his credit based on boron-doped corrosion inhibitors. Since September 2020, he has been working on biodegradable implants as a visiting professor in Bergamo University, Italy. |
Dr. Husnu Gerengi is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Duzce University in Turkey. He is the one of the representative members of Turkey in the International Corrosion Council (ICC) since 2015.
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