Timothy Noël obtained his PhD from Ghent University in 2009 at the Laboratory for Organic and Bioorganic Synthesis. Next, he crossed the ocean to work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow on the development of new continuous-flow methods for cross-coupling chemistry. In 2012 he moved to Eindhoven University of Technology to become an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2017. He joined the University of Amsterdam in 2020 as Full Professor of Flow Chemistry at the Van \\\'t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences. His research interests are flow chemistry, homogeneous catalysis and organic synthesis.

He received for his work several recognitions, including the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, the DECHEMA award, the Hoogewerff Jongerenprijs and the IUPAC-Thalesnano Flow Chemistry Award. He also serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Flow Chemistry since 2019.

Prof C. Oliver Kappe is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Graz (Austria) and Scientific Director of the Center for Continuous Flow Synthesis and Processing (CCFLOW) at the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH (RCPE). He received his diploma (1989) and his doctoral (1992) degrees in organic chemistry from the University of Graz where he worked with Gert Kollenz on cycloaddition and rearrangement reactions of acylketenes. After periods of postdoctoral research work on reactive intermediates and matrix isolation spectroscopy with Curt Wentrup at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia (1993-1994) and on synthetic methodology/alkaloid synthesis with Albert Padwa at Emory University in Atlanta, USA (1994-1996), he moved back to the University of Graz in 1996 to start his independent academic career. He obtained his „Habilitation“ in 1998 in organic chemistry and was appointed Associate Professor in 2000. Since 2011 he is Professor for „Technology of Organic Synthesis“ (Organische Synthesetechnologie) at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Graz. He has spent time as visiting scientist/professor at e.g. the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA, K. Barry Sharpless, 2003), the Toyko Institute of Technology (Toyko, Japan, T. Takahashi, 2008), the Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Orlando, USA, 2010) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013-2015).

Professor Kappe has an extensive general experience and a more than 30 year track record in synthetic and physical organic chemistry, process intensification using batch microwave technology and flow chemistry/microreaction technology, communicated in ~450 scientific publications (Publons, WoS h-Index 80; 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher). For the past decade the focus of his research has been directed towards flow chemistry/microreaction technology, encompassing a wide variety of synthetic transformations and experimental techniques. His research group is actively involved in projects dealing with API synthesis and sustainable manufacturing, employing a number of different enabling and process intensification technologies. For his innovative work in microwave chemistry he received the 2004 Prous Science Award from the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and the 2010 100.000 € Houska Prize, in addition to a number of other awards. In 2015 he was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2018 is received the IUPAC-ThalesNano Award in Flow Chemistry.

Prof. C. Oliver Kappe is the Founding Editor (Editor-in-Chief from 2011-2018) of the Journal of Flow Chemistry (Springer) and a board member of the Flow Chemistry Society. He currently serves as an Editor for Chemistry-Methods (Wiley) and has been an Editor of the Journal QSAR and Combinatorial Sciences (Wiley-VCH, 2003-2007). In addition he serves on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Green Chemistry, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering (RSC), Organic Process Research & Development (ACS), and Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry (Elsevier). For several years he has been teaching courses on flow chemistry for Scientific Update.

Dr Marcus Baumann graduated from Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) in 2007 before moving to Cambridge/UK to study for a PhD with Prof. Steven V. Ley FRS. On completion of his PhD in 2010 he was awarded a Feodor-Lynen postdoctoral fellowship by the Humboldt foundation allowing him to join the research group of Prof. Larry E. Overman at the University of California in Irvine. After two years in Irvine, he returned to the UK to work with Prof. Ian R. Baxendale at the University of Durham applying flow methodology to the scaled synthesis of biologically relevant chemical entities.

In 2017 he became an Assistant Professor for Continuous Flow Chemistry at University College Dublin, where his group’s efforts centre around the development of new continuous flow methods applied to the effective generation of various target molecules. In 2021 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. Current areas of interest include process development, reaction scale-up, photochemistry, telescoped multi-step sequences and flow biocatalysis.

Dr. Amol A. Kulkarni is a Scientist in the Chemical Engineering & Process Development Division at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune (Since 2005). He is a chemical engineer by training (B. Chem. Eng. 1998, and Ph.D. in chemical engineering 2003 from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai. He did his post doctorate at the MPI-Magdeburg (Germany) as a Humboldt Fellow (2004) and was an IUSSTF Research Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA in 2010.

He works in the area of design and development of microreactors and exploring their applications for continuous syntheses of pharmaceutical intermediates, dyes, perfumery chemicals and nanomaterials. He has established the first of its kind microreactor laboratory in India. He also works on multiphase reactors, boiling reactors, design of fluid devices, new impeller concepts and experimental fluid dynamics.

He has been awarded with VASVIK Award by VASVIK Foundation for Excellence in Industrial Research (2016), Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the Dept. of Sci. and Tech. (2015), OPPI Young Scientist Award (2015), Scientist of the Year Award of NCL (2014), CSIR Young Scientist Award (2011), INSA Medal for Young Scientists (2009), Young Engineer Award by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2009). He is also a member of the Selection Committee of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and FWO Foundation (Brussels).

He has published over 90 papers in international peer reviewed journals, supervised 7 PhD students (7 ongoing), filed over 35 patents and also designed several flow reactors that are licensed to Indian industries. He also works on industry sponsored design and feasibility projects and consultant to many industries. He is on the editorial boards of a international peer reviewed journals like Journal of Flow Chemistry (Springer), Advanced Powder Technology (Elsevier) and on the Advisory Board of Reaction Chemistry and Engineering (RSC UK). He is also on the international scientific committee of IMRET and a member of the national organizing committee for ISCRE-2020

Eric has a degree in chemical engineering and a PhD in quantum physics from Paris University. He spent most of his carrier in large chemical companies such as Rhodia, Perstorp, PTT Global Chemical and Solvay where he had various positions in R&D, strategy, business management or M&A.

Eric is the inventor of 30 patents. For two years, Eric has been developing the KHIMOD heat exchange reactor technology for flow chemistry applications.

Dr. Haruro Ishitani is a Project Professor at the Green Sustainable Chemistry Social Cooperation Laboratory, School of Science, The University of Tokyo. With over two decades of experience in academia, Dr. Ishitani specializes in the development of heterogeneous catalytic continuous-flow organic synthesis, focusing on sustainable and carbon-neutral chemical processes.

Dr. Ishitani began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at The University of Tokyo (1998-2001) and later at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2001-2002), where he investigated stereoselective reactions and the acidic properties of siliceous mesoporous materials. He became an Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2002-2015), where his research focused on the catalytic properties of nano-space materials. He returned to The University of Tokyo as a Project Associate Professor (2015-2021) and was promoted to Project Professor in 2021.

His research has significantly contributed to the field of catalytic continuous-flow reactions and the development of high-value compounds. He has published extensively, with his recent work focusing on carbon-neutral synthesis methods and the advancement of sustainable chemistry.

Antimo Gioiello is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Perugia (Italy). After studying organic synthesis, Antimo obtained his PhD in medicinal chemistry. He was visiting scientist at the University of Western Brittany (UBO, France), University of Vienna (Austria) and GSK (UK). Antimo has led several academic and industrial collaborations and his work experience spans various stages of early drug discovery in the area of druggable and orphan steroid receptors. His main research interests include the development of chemical probes and enabling synthesis for lead discovery and optimization. He is co-founder of Tes Pharma and serves as President of the Società Chimica Italiana – Umbria. He has co-authored more 100 scientific papers and holds patents in steroid field.

Renzo Luisi is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Bari “A. Moro” – Italy. He graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Bari (Italy) in 1996 and received the PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2000. He was appointed Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2005 and Full Professor in 2020. The main research interests rely on organometallic chemistry (mainly organolithium chemistry), Boron, Fluorine and Sulfur chemistry, synthesis and reactivity of small heterocycles, asymmetric synthesis, dynamic NMR spectroscopy. Recently, his research interests shifted towards sustainability in modern synthesis by using flow chemistry and enabling technologies. He published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, several book chapters, and reviews.

In 2022 he was the recipient of the award “Organic Chemistry and Methodological Aspects” by the Division of Organic Chemistry – Italian Chemical Society.

He is the International Coordinator of the Horizon Europe Project SusPharma - Merging Sustainable and Digital Chemical Technologies for The Development of Greener-By-Design Pharmaceuticals.

Christian Holtze studied chemical engineering at Technical University of Berlin and at MIT. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces on miniemulsion polymerization. After a short lectureship at Babes Bolyai University, Romania, on numerical programming, he went for a postdoc at Harvard University on microfluidic emulsification. Dr. Holtze joined BASF in 2007 leading a research team on high throughput formulation. He developed technologies on parallelized microfluidic formulation in collaboration with Harvard University and transferred the technology by setting up a bespoke BASF-lab on microfluidics and flow chemistry. Since 2017 Dr. Holtze is the Academic Partnership Developer for BASF’s British Alliance for Research and Innovation, and he is Principal Scientist for Flow Chemistry. Growing the partnership considerably and structuring it in trans-disciplinary research clusters, he laid the foundations for two major publicly funded programmes, which he is managing: BASF’s research effort within Flue2Chem (UKRI, 2022 – 2024) focusing on the combined development of a catalyst and process for CO2 à ethanol and the IConIC Prosperity Partnership on Flow Chemistry (EPSRC, 2023 – 2028) with Imperial.

Benjamin Martin is leading a global team of flow chemistry specialists within the chemical development department at Novartis. After studying organic chemistry, Benjamin obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of Leicester, UK. A Marie-Curie fellowship postdoc followed in the group of Professor Jean-Marie Lehn at the College de France in Paris, and subsequently he completed an industrial postdoc in the crop-protection research department of Syngenta in Basel.  The move to Novartis was quickly followed by a specialization in the emerging field of flow chemistry, and over the years he has been involved in many projects covering hazardous-, fast- and cryogenic- chemistries as well as redox reactions, all commonly showing benefits when integrated into continuous processes on industrial scale. The field has grown rapidly due to industry-academia partnerships, and Benjamin has been working at that interface for over 15 years.

James Gardiner obtained his PhD from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 2004. He then travelled to Switzerland as a NZ FRST Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich with Prof Dieter Seebach, and in 2008 moved to Australia to the University of Melbourne as a Research Fellow with Prof Andrew Holmes. In 2010 he joined CSIRO and has been involved in various commercial and industry initiatives to develop processes for the synthesis and manufacture of bioactive entities, polymers and advanced materials. This has included continuous flow catalysis and processing for the synthesis of APIs. In 2019 he co-chaired the inaugural Australian Flow Chemistry Symposium which coincided with the opening of CSIRO’s centre for industrial flow chemistry (FloWorks). Recently he has had a focus on providing equitable access to essential medicines in the Asia-Pacific region.  

Prashantha Kamath received his M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and PhD from Mangalore University. During his PhD he developed the HHIS methodology to access diverse heterocycles, under supervision of Dr. Mukul Lal. He started his industrial career as a research associate with Syngenta Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. Goa in 2006. At present he is a Group Leader, Process Research in Syngenta Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. Goa.  His research interest includes development of new methodologies to access heterocycles, green chemistry, flow and electro chemistry.

Marc Piepenbrock was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1977 and after having spent his first 20 years in his native country decided to move the England for his academic career. Consequently, he graduated with the degree of MChem from the University of Hull in 2002 and moved on to work on his PhD thesis from the same institute under the supervision of Prof. Stephen M. Kelly and Prof. Mary O’Neill. In 2006 he obtained his PhD for his work on mercury and cadmium telluride nanoparticles.

He then went on to join the Supramolecular Chemistry Group of Prof. Jonathan Steed at Durham University where he spent three productive years publishing twelve papers in the field of low molecular weight gelators for chemically tuneable materials.

After more than twelve years in the UK he decided to return to his home country where he joined the application laboratory of Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik GmbH near Frankfurt. He started work as a project manager, enabling chemists and process engineers from fine chemical, specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries to transfer their batch chemistry into continuous flow processes. Now the Head of Process Development he supervises the implementation of the Ehrfeld technology to a great variety of chemistry both on a laboratory as well as pilot and production scale. He is excited to promote this approach to intensifying chemical processes in India together with Ehrfeld’s partner Büchiglas India.

Suhas Jawlekar is a chemical engineer from ICT, Mumbai with 21 years of work experience in pharmaceutical industry. He works with Dr. Reddy’s Lab - A leading pharmaceutical organisation. His spectrum of knowledge includes API process development & scale up, flow chemistry & continuous manufacturing, particle engineering  & polymorph development. Apart from scaling up 25+ API products of varying complexity, he has been leading flow chemistry & continuous manufacturing program at Dr. Reddy’s. He & his team has commissioned a green field continuous manufacturing plant that is first of its kind in API industry. He has presented his work at various national & international forums. He is certified six sigma black belt.

Dr Satyanarayana Thirunahari is currently working as a General Manager at Laurus Labs Limited,
Hyderabad, responsible for process engineering of active pharmaceutical ingredients, scale up and
technology transfer to manufacturing scale. He has 15+ years of experience in working with various
industries like Dr Reddys Labs Hyderabad, Applied Process Company Limited Ireland, ICES Singapore
etc. He holds a PhD degree in chemical engineering from National University of Singapore. He
published 7+ articles in international journals and gave several talks in various national and
international conferences. He has 17+ patents to his name. His core expertise areas are process scale
up & technology transfer, continuous/flow manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, polymorph & particle
engineering, process analytical technologies, application of AI/ML methodologies in chemical
engineering etc.

Marc Winter is an expert in the industrialization of flow processes. He works as Application Engineer Manager in Corning\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Advanced-Flow™ Reactor business since 2007 and leads the Application Engineering Team. He has already conducted many successful projects helping international customers to move to continuous production. Among the most notable ones, he supported a customer in setting up large-scale nitration under cGMP conditions for pharmaceutical production. In addition to his everyday task of assisting customers, he is a co-author of scientific articles, has submitted patents in the field of micro-reactors and flow chemistry, and has presented results at scientific conferences. Before joining Corning he gathered international experience by working in small and large-sized companies in industries like energy, food, automotive, and pharma. Marc Winter holds an engineering degree in chemical and process engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Aachen (Germany).

Dr Mike Kenny is the Business Development Manager at AM Technology, who manufacture the Coflore range of continuous flow reactors.
Dr Kenny graduated with a PhD degree from the University of Bath in 2018, having worked on the synthesis of highly cytotoxic cyclopropabenzindoles, as part of a project funded by Prostate Cancer UK under the supervision of Prof. Michael D. Threadgill. Today, Dr Kenny works with the chemical industry to both bring new chemical processes, and convert existing batch processes, into continuous manufacture.

Dr Tarver studied at the University of Sheffield and completed his PhD under the supervision of Varinder K. Aggarwal in 1997. His first appointment was as a medicinal chemist at Organon labs at Newhouse, Scotland. In 2004 he moved into a scale up and optimisation role leading a team of chemists in scale up, route evaluation, reaction optimisation and technology development. In 2010 he moved to Cyclofluidic Ltd. where he worked to develop the flow chemistry portion of a fully automated closed-loop flow chemistry system. In 2017 he moved to NewPath molecular developing flow chemistry methods and chemical automation. In 2018 he moved to the Drug Discovery Unit of the University of Dundee where he is Team Leader of the Synthetic Methodologies team which covers roles such as flow chemistry, scale up chemistry, plate based chemistry and new technologies.

Prof Tanja Junkers graduated with a PhD degree in physical chemistry from Goettigen University in Germany in 2006, having worked on the determination of kinetic rate coefficients for radical reactions during polymerizations. Following that she was a research associate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Between 2008 and 2010 she was appointed as senior research scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Early 2010 she was then became professor at Hasselt University in Belgium, where she founded the Polymer Reaction Design group. 2018 she joined Monash University in Australia as full professor, focusing on her work on continuous flow polymerizations, digitization of chemistry, (nano)particle formation and design of complex precision polymers. She has published over 200 articles and is a thought leader in the field of polymer synthesis in continuous flow.

Mr. Amin Ismaili is currently working as Head – Process Engineering Research & innovation (PERI) at Deepak Nitrite Limited Vadodara, He is having bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Gujarat University with 33 years of industrial experience in all aspects of process engineering. Prior joining Deepak Nitrite, he worked with Alembic group company, Cadila Pharmaceutical ltd and Torrent Pharmaceutical. During his journey he has worked on 360 deg aspect of process engineering like innovative technology development from lab to commercial, process equipment design, basic & detail engineering, plant trouble shooting, capacity debottlenecking related issue in pharma and specialty chemical industry. Since 2007 he exclusively works on developing different innovative technology for process intensification and continuous flow chemistry. His dream is ‘HOME FACTORY’ concept i.e to develop Platform Technology which can produce tons of intermediate products in 10 x 12 ft room without use of any solvent and without generation of any effluent.  He has filed 17 patents + published articles and papers in various journals & magazines + actively participated as a speaker in various research conferences, workshops and engineering colleges.

Chandrakant is Manager Sales, Advanced-Flow Reactors (AFR), Corning Reactor Technologies, Corning India where he is responsible for growth and driving the Flow Reactors market to generate potential new business opportunities with a focus on flow technologies.

Chandrakant has been with Corning Reactor Technologies for over eight years and has 16+ years of broad and diverse experience in developing market for new products in reactors and mixing technologies for Pharmaceutical and Specialty Chemical companies. His key focus area is to develop markets for the adoption of continuous flow technologies from lab to production.

Chandrakant holds a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from North Maharashtra University, Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT).