Intl. Committees
This summit is being organized by an international committee spanning six continents and representing major industrial ferrous, nonferrous, materials and recycling companies as well as universities from around the world. Please select a continent below to view the associated organizers.
AFRICA- Chung Tae Kim, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia
ASIA- Farman Ahmed, FMRRC/P.C.S.I.R., Pakistan
- Paul Butterworth, CRU International, Singapore
- Lijie Guo, University of Toronto, Canada
- Yoshihisa Hayakawa, Rikkyo University, Japan
- Wei-Hua Huang, Wuhan University, China
- Haruhiko Inufusa, TIMA Japan & Gifu University, Japan
- Yoshihito Kawamura, Kumamoto University, Japan
- Shuji Kitayama, Kobe Steel, Japan
- Hirokazu Konishi, Osaka University, Japan
- Lang Liu, XI'AN University, China
- Akinori Murao, JFE Steel Corporation, Japan
- Seiji Nomura, Nippon Steel Corp., Japan
- Takahiko Okura, Ehime University, Japan
- Hideki Ono, University of Toyama, Japan
- R. M. Gamini RAJAPAKSE, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- Koji Saito, Nippon Steel, Japan
- Kazuhiro Seto, JFE Steel Corporation, Japan
- Donald Shih, Magnesium Research Center, Kumamoto University, Japan
- Yuichi Shimakawa, Kyoto University, Japan
- Mikio Takano, Okayama/Kyoto, Japan
- Keyong Tang, Zhengzhou University, China
- Jun-ichi Tani, Nippon Steel Corp., Japan
- Nguyen Nhu Thanh, Leather&Shoes Research Institute, Vietnam
- Sabu Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
- Zhi Wang, Dongying Fangyuan, China
- Toshikazu Yoshikawa, Louis Pasteur Center, Japan
- Masahiro Yoshizawa-Fujita, Sophia University, Japan
AUSTRALIA- Raj Das, RMIT University in Australia, Australia
- Nasser Khalili, UNSW, Australia
- Liming Lu, CSIRO, Australia
- Douglas MacFarlane, Monash University, Australia
- Krishnaveni Venkidusamy, University of South Australia, Australia
EUROPE- Elias Aifantis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Shumskiy Viktor Alexandrovich, Science in the area of metallurgy, Kazakhstan
- Christian Andre Amatore, CNRS & PSL, French Academy of Sciences, France
- Juergen Antrekowitsch, Christian Doppler Laboratory, Austria
- Michaela Barinova, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic
- Mariana Calin, IFW Dresden, Germany
- Claudio Capiglia, Reliance Industries Limited, India
- Nikoloz Chikhradze, G. Tsulukidze Mining Institute, Georgia
- Andrey Dmitriev, Russian Academy of Sciences - Ural, Russian Federation
- Jean-Marie Dubois, Institut Jean Lamour, France
- Jean Etourneau, University of Bordeaux, France
- Nicholas Fantuzzi, University of Bologna, Italy
- Rasmus Fehrmann, DTU, Denmark
- Athan Fox, Ever Resource Ltd, United Kingdom
- Maarten Geerdes, Geerdes Advies, Netherlands
- Hasan Giray, Eti Krom, Turkey
- Dyubanov Valeriy Grigorievich, Baykov Metallurgy & Materials Institute, Russian Federation
- Leontyev Leopold Igoryevich, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Soteris Kalogirou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
- Sergey Kolyvanov, ООО TFZ, Russian Federation
- Vasant Kumar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Alois Loidl, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Rodrigo Martins, CEMOP/UNINOVA, Portugal
- Hasan Ozgunay, Ege University, Turkey
- Ioannis Paspaliaris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Francesco Pesavento, University of Padova, Italy
- Tetiana Prikhna, V. Bakul Institute NASU, Ukraine
- Bernard Raveau, University of Caen, France
- Gudrun Saevarsdottir, Reykjavik University, Iceland
- Henrik Saxen, Abo Akademi University, Finland
- Igor Startsev, VNIItsvetmet, Kazakhstan
- Harry van Goor, UMCG, Netherlands
- Tarasov Andrey Vladimirovich, Gintsvetmet Institute, Russian Federation
- Lothar Wondraczek, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
- Yuanzheng Yue, Aalborg University, Denmark
NORTH AMERICA- Katerina Aifantis, University of Florida, United States
- Antoine Allanore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Greg Baiden, Penguin Automated Systems Inc., Canada
- Douglas Bammann, Mississippi State University, United States
- Mike Baskes, Mississippi State University, United States
- John Baumgardner, Liberty University, United States
- David Carey, Bear Metallurgical Company, United States
- Migen Dibra, Migen Dibra Law Office, Canada
- Harold Dodds, University of Tennessee, United States
- David Dzombak, Carnegie Mellon University(CMU), United States
- Yakov Gordon, Hatch, Canada
- Michael Grant, Air Liquide, Germany
- Kyle Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
- J. Brian Jordon, The University of Alabama, United States
- Stewart Lewis, Pyramid Polymers LLC, United States
- Dennis Lu, ArcelorMittal, United States
- Stephen Miller, University of Florida, United States
- Nathaniel Morgan, Los Alamos National Lab, United States
- Ferid Murad, Stanford University, United States
- Kenneth Poeppelmeier, Northwestern University, United States
- Raj Prabhu, Mississippi State University, United States
- Arunachalam Rajendran, University of Mississippi, United States
- Hong Yong Sohn, University of Utah, United States
- Ponisseril Somasundaran, Columbia University, United States
- Tamer Turna, Bloom Energy Corporation, United States
SOUTH AMERICA- Paulo Assis, UFOP, Ouro Preto, Brazil
- Vanessa Bernal, Catalista Business Lab, Panama
- Marcos de Campos, UFF - Federal Fluminense U., Brazil
- Jairton Dupont, UFRGS, Brazil
- Mery-Cecilia Gomez Marroquin, National University of Engineering, Peru
- Joao Ricardo Ribas, Hospital Miguel Couto, Brazil
- Erivelto Souza, Federal University of São João Del Rei, Brazil
