Our Speakers - EOSC & CTSI Conferences

- 2018– Now Principal Researcher at TATA Steel, Ijmuiden
- 2014–2018 PhD with Marie Curie scholarship, TU Delft
- 2012–2014 Research at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- 2008–2012 Masters in Materials Science and Engineering, KTH, Stockholm
- 2003–2008 Bachelor in Materials Science and Engineering: Sharif University, Tehran

Co-Owner and Managing Director
tripleS GmbH & Co. KG
Schwarzwaldstrasse 3
77770 Durbach / Germany

Previous Job Titles:
Director for Electric Steelmaking at Horst Wiesinger Consulting
Head of Process group EAF and LF at Siemens VAI
Manager EAF at Siemens VAI (former FUCHS Systems)

Diplom-Ingenieur FH for process and environmental engineering

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2009 Bachelor: East China University of Science and Technology
2014 Diploma: University of Kaiserslautern in Germany
Since 2014: Research associate at Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering at TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany

research topics:
CFD-based kinetic evaluation
Modeling of high-temperature experiments

Brett Belford, BEng (Mech), Pr. Eng
Senior Divisional Specialist Green Steel, SMS group GmbH
Employed in the pyrometallurgical industry for 14 years. Experienced in the design, analysis, fabrication, installation and commissioning of ferroalloy and non-ferrous furnaces and associated technology equipment.

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Has a MSc in Applied Physics and a PhD in Applied Earth Sciences at TU Delft. Working for Tata Steel in IJmuiden for more than 20 years and for the last 10 years mainly focussing on projects in hot metal desulphurisation and BOF steelmaking. Has a strong interest in applying advanced data analysis techniques to improve the steelmaking processes.

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Education:
2007 BSc Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade
2018 MSc Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade
2018 - now PhD student Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade

Experience:
2008 - 2013 Carmeuse, Lab leader
2013 - 2017 Carmeuse, Quality Manager
2017 - now Carmeuse, Field Support Engineer Steel

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Geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied STAHLINSTITUT VDEh

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Professor Geoff Brooks – has published over 250 papers on
fundamentals aspects of iron and steelmaking, has been invited to speak
at many leading Universities around the world and has worked closely
with steel companies in Europe, Asia and North America. He is currently a
Professor of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. Geoff has
been previously an Associate Professor at McMaster University in Canada
and a Senior Lecturer at University of Wollongong. In 2013, Geoff was
awarded the prestigious John Elliott Lectureship Award by the AIST
(Association for Iron and Steel Technology), USA. He was also awarded the
2018 EPD Distinguished Lecturer by the TMS. Geoff and research
collaborators have also been awarded a number of international awards
such the 2015 MetSoc Award, 2015 Marcus Grossman Award ASM and
2020 Williams Award IOM3. He is a fellow of the Institute of Materials.
Minerals and Mining

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Dr. Jan Daldrop is Business Unit Lead Machine Learning at Smart Steel Technologies (SST) with a focus on applications of artificial intelligence algorithms to steelmaking. He is leading the development of the key software products of Smart Steel Technologies, which include SSTs AI for Energy, Temperature, Casting, Rolling and Sureface

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2011 - now Netherlands

* Principal researcher. Tata Steel, IJmuiden
* Process Engineer. Danieli Corus

2003 - 2009 Belgium

* Research assistant, Faculty of Business and Economics
* M. Sc. Statistics
* M. Sc. Industrial management

~ 2002 China

* B. Sc. Metallurgy Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China

Felix Firsbach is Ph.D. metallurgist from RWTH Aachen. His first assignment was as R&D lab manager and global steel expert at the largest producer of quicklime and other fluxes and refractories: Lhoist in Belgium. Since 2021 he is a steel plant consultant at Badische Stahl-Engineering focusing on the worldwide green steel transition.

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Carsten Gondorf completed his Master's degree in material engineering with specialisation in foundry technology at RWTH Aachen University.
Since 2021 he's a research assistant at the department for industrial furnaces and heat engineering at RWTH Aachen University in the working group "Renewable energies and low-CO2 process heating.

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2021 graduation in mineral processing (Master thesis: "Citric acid leaching of BOF slag")
since 2021 pHD student at the chair of mineral processing/ MUL

Abdelrhman Ibrahim Hassan
Assistant Professor, Ferrous Metallurgical Department
Tabbin Institute for Metallurgical Studies (TIMS)
Tabbin, Iron & Steel St., P.O. Box:109 Helwan, Cairo, Egypt. Pos. code: 11421
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Ph.D in Ferrous metallurgical Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia, 2016.

M.Sc. Metallurgy & Materials Science (1990, Dipl.-Ing. RWTH Aachen)

1990-present:
Experienced manager in multiple global functions around commissioning, sales, consumables, services and business-development for the steel producing and related industries.
(Mannesmann Demag, SMS Demag, Stollberg, Vesuvius, WEEBOTEC)

Focus on holistic approach

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Specialist engineer with Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH since Nov. 2021
phd-student with Prof. Senk (BOF slag) 2018-2022
BSc and MSc at RWTH Aachen

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Felix Kaiser completed his Master's degree in industrial engineering with specialisation in materials and process engineering at RWTH Aachen University.
Since 2020 he's a research assistant at the department for industrial furnaces and heat engineering at RWTH Aachen University in the working group "Renewable energies and low-CO2 process heating".

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Since 2015 Research Engineer at ArcelorMittal Global R&D Maizieres (Valorisation of steelmaking By-products)

Ph. D. in Materials Science at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Orléans
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)

Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 2002-2008.

Thereafter: Research scientist at the Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Institute of Aerodynamics of RWTH Aachen University; Dr.-Ing. in 2014.

Since 2015: Research and Development Engineer at NEUMAN&ESSER Process Technology GmbH.
Focus: Fluid Mechanics, Air Classification and Separation

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B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London
Since 2020 Senior Data Scientist at SMS digital GmbH

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Technical Physics at Vienna University of Technology

2017 start working for RHI Magnesita's steel division as Product Manager OEM, dealing with green- & brown-field projects of steel plants

Changover to Technical Marketing Secondary Metallurgy

Since 2019 resp. for sustainability & green steel topics within Technical Marketing Integrated Mills

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since 04/2012 ongoing: Deputy Head R&D (Iron- and Steelmaking) at voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH
since 04/2012 ongoing: Head of Process-, Product- and Materials Development Dep. (R&D-Steelmaking) at voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH
since 02/2007 - 04/2012: Project Manager R&D-Steelmaking at voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH

Project manager in Carbon2Chem project since 2021
working for thyssenkrupp Steel since 2008
PhD in Analytical Chemistry by university of Muenster, Germany.

Dr. Fabian Krause received his diploma and doctoral
degree in mechanical engineering from University of
Bremen. From 2006 to 2010 he was research assistant at
the Bremen IWT Foundation Institute of Material Science
in the department of “Multiphase Flow, Heat and Mass
Transfer”
Since 2010 he is a CFD expert at SMS Group

Current position:
Doktorand at KTH Stockholm in "INEVITABLE" project working with Björn Glaser

Specialization:
Engineering Materials Science (KTH Stockholm and ETH Zürich)
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (VNIT Nagpur)

Areas of interest:
Augmented intelligence, Composite materials, Machine learning operations, Time series analysis

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Professor for Process and Environmental Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Uppe Austria

A research engineer working collaboratively with Swansea University and TATA Steel Strip UK, to develop solutions to fuel consumption within blast furnace ironmaking. The scope of work includes industrial processing and novel techniques to determine and quantify differentiated carbon types in off gas dust, for the purpose of optimising combustion.

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I did my bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Hong Kong. In 2017 I came to Sweden and completed my Master Degree of Material Science Engineering at KTH. I started my PhD in 2019, and my research focus is in application of hydrochar in various iron and steelmaking processes.

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CV Dr.-Ing. Hans Bodo Lüngen für ECIC & ICSTI 2022
Age 67
Study of Metallurgy RWTH Aachen, Germany
With Steel Institute VDEh for 37 years from March 1985 to December 2021.
Last position: Executive Member of the Managing Board.
Today retired and consultant

As of 5 October 2022

Dr Yuriy Lytvynyuk is a Senior BOF Process Technologist at Danieli Corus, where he has worked since 2013. He has degrees from the National Technical University of Ukraine (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) in Physical and Chemical Theory of Metallurgical Technology and the Montanuniversität Leoben in Modeling and Simulation of Metallurgical Processes.

Guangyu Ma, Professor Senior Engineer, Ph.D. director of Institute of Environment & Resource, Ansteel Group Iron and Steel Research Institute, lead researcher, outstanding expter of Anshan city,
member of Energy and Thermal Engineering Branch of CSM, member of technical Committee of Environmental Product Declaration in CISA.

Sanjeev Manocha is the Business Development Director with LanzaTech leading Steel, Cement and Energy Intensive industry sectors. Sanjeev is Metallurgical engineer with Executive MBA, who started his working life in Iron and Steel Industry having served at various executive positions and served as board member with various businesses and institutes

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Metallurgical engineer with experience in steelmaking and refractories and working since 2018 at Lhoist in the technical sales area.

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After completing a master in industrial mathematics, Anna joined Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH in 2015 as a product development engineer. She worked on the topic of acoustic plant monitoring in iron and steel production. Currently she is Product Manager for Converter Steelmaking Automation.

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Dr. MENG JinSong, vice-general manager of Angang Steel Co Ltd, is in charge of the company’s technology, quality and R&D. He has been engaged in steel-making technology and product development for many years. He used to be the manager of No.1 Steel-making Plant and the director of Science and Technology Development Department of Ansteel Group.

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Present work title is Principal specialist. Working experience in steelmaking about 30 years both in R&D and in production in Raahe steel works, earlier Rautaruukki and now part of SSAB Europe division. Latest work assignment have been participation of a team planning to make SSAB’s steelmaking process carbon neutral.

Energy engineer at the ICT-COISP laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa since 2018.
She works on improving the environmental impact of energy-intensive industries through the use of modeling and simulation tools.
She is currently doing a PhD in Emerging Digital Technologies at the TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.

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Senior expert in the department of energy, gas and industrial furnace technology. More than 20 years of experience in applied research, project management, energy efficiency of thermal process equipment and process measurement technology.

Konstantinos Rigas is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Materials Science, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, specializing in process metallurgy.

MSc in Engineering Materials Science, KTH, Sweden.
BSc in Physics, University of Patras, Greece.

Areas of interest: ladle metallurgy, process control, vibrations, two-phase flows

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Graduated of National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Chemistry of fossil fuels
Since 2006 - specialist ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih Coke plant, Ukraine
Since 2010 - project manager "Pyrolysis phenomena" Centre de Pyrolyse Marienau, France
Since 2021 - responsible of department Centre de Pyrolyse Marienau, France

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Johannes Schenk is a professor of ferrous metallurgy at the Montanuniversität Leoben and Chief Scientific Officer of the Austrian metallurgical competence center K1-MET GmbH. His research focus is on ironmaking and crude steel production. The current topics in the ongoing research projects are related to sustainable steel production.

As a mechanical & production technology engineer, Alexander is passionate about technologies to optimize and increase process efficiency. He has been serving customers in the high-tech sector for over 10 years. Over the past 5 years he has been fascinated by the possibilities of lasers to achieve this goal in the steel making industry.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. (CZ) Dieter Senk

Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Field of Research Activities:
Iron ore reduction
Steel making: BOF and EAF
Ladle metallurgy
Continuous Casting

Publications:
More than 400 between 1983 and 2022
5 patents

Degree in Industrial Engineering
Joined RHI Magnesita in 2006, starting in the design department - creating drawings of different aggregates and products for the steel industry.
Taking different roles in the area of technical marketing and product management starting in 2014.
Since 2020 technical marketing manager for integrated steel plants.

Trained as a chemical engineer at TU Delft, now working as principal research in the Refractories Center of Expertise at Tata Steel in IJmuiden.
Over 15 years of experience working with refractories in steel plants and reheating furnaces.
Focus on applying data science to better understand how refractories behave and optimizing their value in use.

A passion for delivering large-impact environmental projects and research related to engineering within the government, academic and industrial sectors. A Engineering Doctorate at Swansea University and Bachelor in Material Science.

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Co-Owner and Commercial Director of PERT-Italy
With more than 30 years of experience PERT delivers flexible, efficient and customized plant solutions and equipments to the steel industry.
One of the main targets of PERT mills is the sustainability. Water used to make steel and to cool equipment and products is continuously recycled .

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Fiona Turner is a Chartered Physicist with over 20 years experience in optical and infrared technologies.
She has been developing infrared thermal imagers and spot thermometers at AMETEK Land since 2010, where she is now Global Head of Product Management.

After obtaining his MSc in Metallurgy at Montan University Leoben, Paul Uhl-Hädicke has specialised in the creation of software tools for production and process optimisation in steel plants. As Founder and CEO of Fesios, his mission is to demystify the complexity of steel plant logistics and production through the use of discrete event simulation.

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Studied mechanical engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Joined IUTA in 2000.
Since then he has been working there in the areas of CFD and filtration.
The focus is on the investigation of particle dynamics including electrical effects.

Bernhard holds a master degree in industrial & mechanical engineering from Vienna University of technology. He started his career at VAI in 2011, since 2016 is the head of technology & innovation for converter steelmaking where is responsible for carbon, stainless and special steelmaking such as hot metal treatment, BOF, AOD and special converters

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Graduated in mechanical engineering and international business adminsitration.

Joint the iron and steel industry 15 years ago and is with PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES since then.

Had several positions for simulations and technology within the company and is now business responsible for converter steelmaking.

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Since 2020
developer at R&D Departement of SMS-group

Since 2006
postdoc at Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (experimental high-energy physics)

Since 2003
project associate at European Organization for Nuclear Research (detector physics)

2006 PhD, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Monika Zielinska joined ABB Corporate Research Center in Krakow in 2015. From 2019 is a member of the ABB Corporate Technology Center. Today, PhD student of implementation doctorate in range of cooperation between ABB and AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. The main research is Computational Fluid Dynamics in metallurgy industry.