Committees

Committees

Conference Chair

Jorge Alberto Medina, Universidad de los Andes
Conference Co-Chair

María del Pilar Noriega, Daabon Group
Secretariat

Jairo Ernesto Perilla, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Institutional Organization

Laura Florez, Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación del Plástico y del Caucho (ICIPC)
Felipe Salcedo, Universidad de los Andes
Regional Suport

Humberto Arturo Gómez, Universidad del Norte
Edgardo Arrieta, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Organization

Polymer Processing Society
Universidad de los Andes
Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación del Plástico y del Caucho (ICIPC)

Scientific Committee

General Symposia

Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)
- Dietmar Drummer (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
- Hesheng Xia (Sichuan University, China)
- Jeng-Ywan Jeng (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
- Jeremie Soulestin (Institut Mines Télécom Lille Douai, France)
- Kentaro Taki (Kanazawa University, Japan)
- Juan Carlos Cruz (Uniandes, Colombia)
Extrusion
- Chris Rauwendaal (Rauwendaal Extrusion Engineering, Inc, USA)
- Christian Hopmann (Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV), Germany)
- Costas Tzoganakis (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- José A. Covas (University o Minho, Portugal)
- Krzysztof Wilczynski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
- María del Pilar Noriega (DAABON, Colombia)
Functional Additives and Reactive Processing
- José-Marie Lopez-Cuesta (Centre des Matériaux, IMT Mines d’Alès, France)
- Marianna Kontopoulou (Queen’s University, Canada)
- Suprakas Sinha Ray (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa)
- María Virginia Candal (Universidad Internacional de Valencia, Spain)
- Hidayah Ariffin (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
Injection Molding
- Albert van Bael (KU Leuven, Belgium)
- Andrea Guevara Morales (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico)
- Gan-Ji Zhong (College of Polymer Science and Engineering, China)
- Andrew N. Hrymak (Western University, Canada)
- John Vlachopoulos (McMaster University, Canada)
- Laura Florez (PMTec, Colombia)
- Lih-Sheng Turng (University of Winsconsin- Madison, USA)
- Roberto Pantani (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Polymerization and Synthesis
- Cesar Augusto Sierra Avila (Universidad Nacional, Colombia)
- Christoph Weder (Adolphe Merkle Institute, Switzerland)
- Dagmar R. D’hooge (Ghent University, Belgium)
- José M. Kenny (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy)
- Larissa Alexandrova (UNAMP, Mexico)
- Tony McNally (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
- Yusuf Menceloglu (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Polymer Blends and Alloys
- Ica Manas-Zloczower (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
- Johan Verbeek (University of Auckland, New Zeeland)
- Khalid Lamnawar (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France)
- Cengiz Altan (University of Oklahoma, USA)
- Mónica Lucia Alvarez (EAFIT Colombia)
- Rubén González Nuñez (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico)
- Toshiaki Ougizawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Cyrille Sollogoub (ENSAM, France)
Polymer Composites
- Carmen Rosales (Universidad de Simón Bolivar, Venezuela)
- Celina R. Bernal (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Elif Ozden-Yenigun (Royal College of Art, United Kingdom)
- Julio A Acosta Sullcahuaman (PUCP, Peru)
- Junwei Gu (Northwestern Polytech University, China)
- Samuel Kenig (Shenkar College of Engineering & Design, Israel)
- Octavio Manero Brito (UNAM, Mexico)
- Murat Yazici (Bursa Uludag University, Turkey)
Polymer Foams and Membranes
- Volker Altstädt (University Bayreuth, Germany)
- Chul B. Park (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Ernesto Di Maio (Universitá degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
- Jose Ignacio Velasco (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Masahiro Ohshima (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Reza Nofar (Instanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces
- Rainer Dahlmann (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
- Tohid Didar (McMaster University, Canada)
- Upendra Natarajan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
- Jairo Perilla (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Fibers and Films
- Adbellah Ajji (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
- Rudolf Hufenus (Empa, Switzerland)
- Konstantin Kornev (Clemson University, USA)
- Takeshi Kikutani (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Xungai Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
- Yurong Yan (South China University of Technology, China)
- Miko Cakmak (Purdue University, USA)
Nanotechnology and Nanocomposites
- Felipe Salcedo (Uniandes, Colombia)
- Luyi Sun (University of Connecticut, USA)
- Phil Coates (University of Bradford, United Kingdom)
- María Luisa Arnal (Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela)
- Ana Vera Machado (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Mechanical Properties and Fracture
- Luiz A. Pessan (Universidad Federal de San Carlos, Brazil)
- Gilles Regnier (ENSAM, France)
- Tim A. Osswald (University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA)
- Patricia María Frontini (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Mixing and Compounding
- Omar Augusto Estrada Ramírez (ICIPC, Colombia)
- Bruno Vergnes (MINES ParisTech, France)
- Daniel Schwendemann (Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
- Pablo Raimonda (Universidad de la Republica de Uruguay, Uruguay)
- Sabu Thomas (Mahatma Gandhi University, India)
- Wei Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Modeling and Simulation
- Ali Gooneie (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
- Evan Mitsoulis (National Technical University Athens, Greece)
- Fardin Khabaz (University of Akron, USA)
- Franco Costa (Autodesk, Australia)
- Jean-François Agassant (MINES ParisTech, France)
- Patrick D. Anderson (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Toshihisa Kajiwara (Kyushu University, Japan)
Rheology and Characterization
- Nino Grizzuti (University of Naples, Italy)
- Paula Moldenaers (KU Leuven, Belgium)
- Sebastião V. Canevarolo (Universidad Federal de San Carlos, Brazil)
- Silvio Ospina Salgado (ICIPC, Colombia)
- Sylvie Dagreou (UPPA, France)
Morphology and Structural Development
- Alejandro J. Muller (POLYMAT-UPV/EHU, Spain)
- Masayuki Yamaguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Patrick C. Lee (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Ines Kühnert (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany)
- Uttandaraman Sundararaj (University of Calgary, Canada)
Rubber and Elastomers
- Diego Hernán Giraldo Vásquez (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
- Kinsuk Naskar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
- Robert Eberlein (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
- Sadhan C. Jana (Univeristy of Akron, USA)
- Sven Wießner (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany)
Machine Learning in Polymer Processing
- Allen Jonathan Román (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
- Jie Zhang (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
- Juan Sebastian León Becerra (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia)
- Rodrigo Albuquerque (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
- Camilo Cruz (Bosch, Germany)

Special symposia

Biopolymers, Biocomposites and Bioprocessing
- Caroline Schauer (Drexel University, USA)
- Hector Samuel Villada (Universidad del Cauca, Colombia)
- Jean-Marie Raquez (University of Mons, Belgium)
- Joung Sook Hong (Seoul National University, Korea)
- Juan Carlos Rueda Sánchez (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru)
- Luc Averous (Université de Strasbourg, France)
- Marcelo A.Villar (PLAPIQUI, Argentina)
- Petr Saha (Tomas Bata University, Czechia)
Circular Economy of Polymers
- Andres Rigail (ESPOL, Ecuador)
- Bernhardus van Hoof (Uniandes, Colombia)
- Jose Roberto Vega-Baudrit (LANOTEC, Costa Rica)
- Juan F. Rodriguez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
- Kim Ragaert (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
- Jong-Min Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Degradation, Biodegradation and Composting
- Gabriella Santagata (Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials (IPCB), Italy)
- Shih- Jung Liu (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
- Carlos Díaz-Acosta (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
- Humberto Arturo Gómez (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
- Bruno Fayolle (ENSAM, France)
Polymers in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- Hartiz Sardon (POLYMAT-UPV/EHU, Spain)
- Marco Aurelio de Paoli (Unicamp, Brazil)
- Pablo Ortiz (Uniandes, Colombia)
- Natalia Tarazona (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon , Germany)

Last update 2023-02-16