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Thelmo A. Lu-Chau is chemical engineer by the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo (Perú) and PhD in Chemical Engineering by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain). He is currently working as Associate Professor at the Dept. Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Sciences (Lugo) of the USC. His research areas include the production of biofuels (ethanol, butanol) and biopolymers (PHA) from lignocellulosic biomass and cereals, the production of enzymes (glucanases and ligninolytic ...

Dr. Noelia Pérez-Rodríguez holds a PhD in Agro-Food Science and Technology and has over 6 years of expertise in the areas of Biomass Conversion and Bioprocess Technology with focus on the development of biorefinery strategies for total and sustainable conversion of biomass (lignocellulosic materials) into biobased products. Dr. Pérez-Rodríguez’s research interests include: i) biomass pretreatment and hydrolysis using chemical, physico-chemical or biological methods; ii) biomass conversion by ...

Detlef Schmiedl (PhD) is working at Fraunhofer ICT since 02/2006 as scientist & is project leader as well as senior scientist at Fraunhofer ICT. He is a chemist & has long term experience in processing of lignocellulose & chemical modification/ tailored functionalization of tannin & lignin as well as in base catalyzed chemical depolymerization of several lignin types into monomer & oligomer oxy-aromatic building blocks. Additionally he has long term experiences in analytical ...

Gopakumar Sivasankarapillai (Ph.D.) is a member of the research group of the chair of Forest Biomaterials, Freiburg material research center, the University of Freiburg since 2014. I am involving, various routes for the synthesis of lignin and tannin derivatives, various chemical modifications of cellulose and xylans for the design of functional composite materials.