Jia Wei Chew is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Prior to this, she was the Technical Director at Particulate Solid Research Incorporated in Chicago. And before that, she was an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with research focusses on fluidization, membranebased separations, and machine learning. She has over 260 publications, ten patents/technical disclosures, and is on the editorial boards for various peer-review journals including Journal of Membrane Science Letters, Advanced Powder Technology, AIChE Journal, Membranes, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Scientific Reports. Her research has been recognized by various awards, including the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Particle Technology Forum (PTF) Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2013, the Singapore Youth Award in 2015 and the AIChE PTF Sabic Young Professional Award in 2017. Ray Cocco is the President and CEO of Particles in Motion. Previously, he was with PSRI for 16 years, where he had the role of President and CEO. PSRI is a consortium-based company with 30 member companies headquartered in Canada, France, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the United States. Before PSRI, Ray spent 17 years with The Dow Chemical Company, where he led research and development efforts in numerous particle technology platforms, including the production of WoodStalkTM (a particleboard made of straw) for Dow BioProducts, the production of vinyl chloride monomer, and RCl oxidation using fluidized beds, the production of hydrocarbon using circulating fluidized beds, the development of polyolefin catalyst for fluidized beds, and in the production of aluminum nitride and silicon carbide ceramic powders using moving bed reactors.
