Topical Advisory Panel

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Clinical & Health Sciences, University of South Australia, UniSA Cancer Research Institute, HB6-25, North Terrace, City West Campus, Adelaide 5000, Australia
Interests: lipid vesicles; supported lipid bilayers; permeation enhancers; cellular membrane mimics; liposomes

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Aramco Services Company, Aramco Research Center, Boston, MA 02139, USA
Interests: polymer chemistry; gas separation membranes; reverse osmosis water purification; glassy polymers; mixed-matrix membranes; material science; crosslinking; functional polymers; industrial separations

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Centre for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, Qatar
Interests: membrane technology for water treatment and energy applications; reverse osmosis; forward osmosis; nanocomposite membranes; membrane separations; fuel cell membranes and electro-catalysts; membrane characterization and testing; membrane fouling; produced water treatment

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C2TN, Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, 2695-066 Bobadela LRS, Portugal
Interests: functionalization and characterization of macromolecular materials; polymeric supporting systems; radiation processing; membrane reactors; biomaterials; skin scaffolds; biomedical applications; environmental applications; conservation and restoration applications
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Institute of Chemistry & Biology of Membranes & Nanoobjects (CBMN), CNRS UMR 5248, Université de Bordeaux, Institut Polytechnique Bordeaux, 33600 Pessac, France
Interests: lipid membranes; amyloid forming proteins; peptide/membrane interaction; lipid membrane perturbation; lipid membrane morphology; self-assembly
Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: electromembrane systems; osmotically driven membrane processes; mass transport in membranes; membrane processes for food processing, desalination, water treatment and sustainable energy
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Research Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, c/o University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, Cubo 17/C, 87030 Rende (CS), Italy
Interests: zeolite membranes: preparation and characterization; mixed matrix membranes: preparation and characterization; desalination; water treatment; drug delivery systems; catalytic membrane reactors; gas separations
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Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Kangwon National University, Kangwondaehak-gil 1, Chuncheon-si 24341, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea
Interests: biochar technologies; characterization of dissolved organic matter; membrane-based processes; membrane fouling; oxidative processes; reverse electrodialysis; seawater desalination

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Water Supply, Sanitation and Environmental Engineering Department, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: membrane technology (microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis): control of particulate / colloidal fouling, fouling of RO due to cationic polymers, scaling in BWRO and SWR; desalination of seawater and brackish water; water reuse: reuse of domestic wastewater treated effluent into ultrapure water; biological stability of drinking water; smart dosing control: coagulants and antiscalants; natural organic matter characterization; development of early warning tools/indicators/methods to assess fouling in integrated membrane systems
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School of Clinical and Applied Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, PD611, City Campus, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK
Interests: membrane proteins; membrane transporters; molecular mechanisms; recombinant membrane protein production and purification

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College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: plant; plasma membrane; dynamics; endocytosis; single-molecule analysis
Chemical Engineering Department, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, 90840 CA, USA
Interests: membrane fouling; electrodialysis; membrane filtration; membrane distillation; water quality; waste management; resource recovery

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Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavacata, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy
Interests: fuel cells; batteries; electrolyzers; hydrogen production; polygenerative systems; green mobility
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School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30, Lenin Avenue, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
Interests: electrospinning; solution blow spinning; polymer ferroelectric; fluoropolymers; polyesters; biomaterials; thin films; magnetron sputtering
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, ETSIIyT, University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Spain
Interests: biopolymer membranes; mixed-matrix membranes; membrane synthesis; modeling; perfusion bioreactors; photocatalytic membranes; tissue engineering
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Center for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Polymer Research, Head of Department Process Engineering, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Interests: gas permeation; vapour permeation; pervaporation; membrane module and process design (including hybrid processes); modelling and simulation of permeation behaviour, membrane module operation and process performance; membrane pilot plant operation

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Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: reverse osmosis; desalination; membrane fouling; ion transport; membrane process modeling; osmotically driven membrane processes; salonity gradient energy
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iBB—Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, nº1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: bioprocess engineering; biopharmaceuticals; bioseparations; bioreactors; membrane processes
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Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Interests: nanocomposite membranes; polymer electrolyte membranes; PFG-NMR; fuel cell; lithium batteries
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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Interests: membrane proteins; neuronal disease; memory; structure-function relationships; electrophysiology; voltage-clamp fluorometry; NMDA receptor; Na,K-ATPase
Research Center for Membrane and Film Technology, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodaicho, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
Interests: graphene-based membranes; superwetting membranes; mixed matrix membranes; pervaporation; water purification; gas separation
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Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, A919 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Interests: epithelial physiology; membrane transport; ion channels; electrophysiology; patch clamp; sensory neurons; urinary system

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Faculty of Food Science, Szent István University, 1118 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: development of hybrid membrane technology (mainly MF/UF/NF); membrane dispersion and micro encapsulation; MBR; spray drying; particle characterization

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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
Interests: seawater desalination; presseure retarded membrane distillation (PRMD); draw solution assisted reverse osmosis (DSARO); economic evaluation; energy efficient process; RO; FO; ED; crystallization; industrial process; optimization of the process

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Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., Krasnodar 350040, Russia
Interests: ion exchange membrane; electrodialysis; membrane modification; surface phenomena; selective separation
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Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Interests: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; artificial lung; CO2 removal; respiratory insufficiency; ARDS; ECMO; ECCO2R
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Department of Higher Mathematics, National University of Oil and Gas “Gubkin University”, Leninsky Prospect, 65-1, Moscow 119991, Russia
Interests: mathematical modelling of reverse osmosis, nano-, ultra-, microfiltration and electrodialysis; interaction between colloidal particles and charged membrane surface; asymmetry of transport characteristics of step-charged bi-layer and linearly-charged one-layer membranes; hybrid and nanocomposite membranes; modelling of complex porous media (like ion-exchange membranes) using the cell method; magnetic and electric field action on Newtonian and non-Newtonian (micropolar) fluid flows through a porous membrane
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Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Interests: physicochemical process on water and wastewater treatment by incorporation of membrane
European Membrane Institute Twente (EMI), Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7522NB AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: gas separation; hollow fiber; mixed matrix; carbon membranes
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 6, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: desalination; blue energy; ion-exchange membrane processes; electrodialysis; reverse electrodialysis; redox flow batteries; membrane distillation; computational fluid dynamics; heat and mass transport phenomena; numerical simulations; process modelling
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