Imperial College Club of Germany – Annual Conference 2012
Speaker biographies
Professor Klaus Hellgardt, Reader in Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
Research Area:
 Sustainable Reaction Engineering and Catalysis
 Algae and cyanobacteria (hydrogen, biofuels, biomass, bioceuticals)
 Biomass Reforming (APR, biogas, oxygenates),
 Biofuels (biodiesel, pyrolysis oil upgrading),
 Bio-photolytic and photo-electrochemical Hydrogen Production,
 Hydrothermal and supercritical fluids processing (algae, biomass, heavy oil)
 Flow Chemistry (multiphase electrochemical flow, partial oxidations, aminations,
esterification, amide reduction)
 Unconventional Fuel Cells (Carbon/Air, reverse sold oxide, sulphide)
 Flux Response Technology,
 Hydrotreating (HDS, HDN, HDM – heavy oils)
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Mr Jeff Michel, an independent energy researcher in Germany since the 1980's, and
graduate of MIT USA.
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Dr Jerald Sadoff, Senior Advisor Crucell Vaccines Institute
Before joining Crucell, Dr Jerald C. Sadoff is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Aeras
Global TB Vaccine Foundation. He has held the current position since June 2003. Throughout
his career, Dr Sadoff has chaired or served on over 20 national and international task forces,
initiatives, consulting groups and Advisory Boards. Over the last 30 years, he has authored some
300 articles, book chapters, and abstracts. At Merck, Dr Sadoff served as the Executive Director
of Clinical Development
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Dr Jörn Schmidt, Department of Economics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Dr Jörn Schmidt is a specialist in multidisciplinary work, currently research fellow at the Group
„Sustainable Fisheries“, Department of Economics, University Kiel. He is experienced in
zooplankton ecology, fish larvae ecology, fisheries assessment and modelling and contributed to
EU (FACTS, STORE) as well as national projects (GLOBEC Germany). Jörn is co-chair of the
ICES "Study Group on Integration of Economics, Stock Assessment and Fisheries Management“
(SGIMM) and German member of the Science Committee (SCICOM) as well as member of the
Publication Committee (PUBCOM) of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
(ICES). He was main contributor to a EU Study on European Fisheries and Climate Change.
Currently he explores the possibilities of games for education and stakeholder participation in the
EU project (SOCIOEC).
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He co-developed the game 'ecoOcean' for an exhibition in the German Museum in Munich. This
game desk was developed within a project financed by the Cluster of Excellence “Future Ocean”
at Kiel University. It received the ICES "Out of the box" Award (Special Merit Award), ASC
Nantes for the "ecoOcean" game. The underlying idea was to develop an appealing device to
illustrate the basic problem of fisheries (common pool) to the general public.
Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean"
"Sustainable Fisheries"
German member of the Science Committee (SCICOM) of the International Council for the
Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Co-speaker of the Post-Doc Network
Environmental Officer of Wirtschafts-und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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