Invited Speakers

We are proud that CHoPS 2024 will host a diverse range of plenary and keynote talks given by eminent experts from academia and industry. The confirmed invited speakers are listed below, along with talk titles and summaries of their biographic information.

Additional invited speakers, will be added to this page in due course. Further details on all speakers, their presentations and scheduling will appear at a later date.

Plenary Speakers

John W. Carson

President Emeritus, Jenike & Johanson, Inc.

Plenary Title:

“The high cost of performance and structural failures of silos and their transfer systems”

Willie Hendrickson

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of AVEKA Group

Plenary Title:

“Industrial Solids Processing from Discovery Through the Valley of Death to Consistent Production……Why is This so Hard?”

Arno Kwade

Professor & Director of Institute of Particle Technology,TU Braunschweig, Germany

Plenary Title:

“Particle technology as a key enabler for sustainable high performance batteries and their recycling”

Catherine O’Sullivan

Professor of Particulate Soil Mechanics, Imperial College London, UK

Plenary Title:

“Linking particle scale interactions to bulk behaviour: a geomechanics perspective”

Rachel Smith

Professor of Particulate Manufacturing, University of Sheffield, UK

Plenary Title:

“Predicting the performance of particulate products: linking process and performance models”

Keynote Speakers

Jia Wei Chew

Professor in Chemical Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

Keynote Title:

“Fluidized Bed Scale Up for Sustainability Challenges”

Harald Kruggel-Emden

Chair of Mechanical Process Engineering and Solids Processing (MVTA), TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Keynote Title:

“Numerical investigation of multidimensional particle fractionation in microchannels”

Carlos Labra

Director of EDEM Products, Altair, Barcelona, Spain.

Keynote Title:

“Present and Future of Computer Modelling in Particle Technology: From Academia to Industry.”

Vanessa Magnanimo

Associate Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands.

Keynote Title:

“Upscaling granular solids and flows”

Luis Martin de Juan

Advanced Process Modelling at AstraZeneca, Sweden.

Keynote Title:

“Strategies for particulate systems design in formulated products”

J.P. Morrissey

Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK

Keynote Title:

“GrainDB: Making experimental measurements FAIR”

Hideya Nakamura

Associate Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

Keynote Title:

“Temporal and spatial scaling of granular flow by NN-based DEM surrogate model and coarse-graining DEM model”

Massimo Poletto

Professor, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.

Keynote Title:

“Measurement of Flowability and Layer Spreadability of Polymeric Powders for Powder Bed Fusion Processes at Ambient and Process Conditions”

Nathalie Vriend

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Keynote Title:

“Imaging stress distributions in granular hopper flows and avalanches using photoelasticity.”

Kenneth Williams

Professor & Research Director, Centre for Bulk Solids and Particulate Technologies, The University of Newcastle, Australia.

Keynote Title:

“Maritime bulk material safety in remote operations: Practicalities in delivering Science to Ship loading Operations”