{"id":654,"date":"2025-12-18T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/?page_id=654"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:54:44","slug":"plenary-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/plenary-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenary speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Since 2008 Irina Smirnova is a Professor at the Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg<\/strong>, Germany. She serves as the Head of the Institute of Thermal Separation Processes and vice-president of research of the TUHH.<\/strong> Her research interests include aerogels, high pressure processes, thermodynamics and separation technologies<\/strong>. Before that, the engineer was a visiting scientist at Sogang University in South Korea<\/strong> and worked until 2008 as a group leader and postdoctoral candidate at the Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering<\/strong> at the Technical University of Berlin<\/strong> and at the Institute for Thermal Process Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg<\/strong>. Smirnova studied physical chemistry<\/strong> at the State University of St. Petersburg<\/strong> and received her doctorate in 2002 from the Technical University of Berlin<\/strong> on the synthesis and application of aerogels in process engineering. She completed her postdoctoral qualification in 2008 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.<\/strong> In her scientific career, she has also been awarded the DECHEMA Young Academic Award, the Hamburg Teaching Award and the Ralf Dahrendorf Prize.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Denis Rodrigue<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Denis Rodrigue obtained a B.Sc. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1996) in chemical engineering<\/strong> from Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke<\/strong> (Sherbrooke, Canada) with a specialization in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. In 1996 he moved to Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/strong> (Quebec City, Canada) where he is now full professor<\/strong>. Since then, he has been an invited professor at the University of Guadalajara<\/strong> (Mexico), the Technical Institute of Karlsruhe<\/strong> (Germany), the University of Castilla-La Mancha<\/strong> (Spain), the University of Arts and Sciences of Hunan<\/strong> (China), the Technical University of Lodz<\/strong> (Poland), Polytech Tours<\/strong> (France) and Cracow University of Technology<\/strong> (Poland).<\/p>

His main research areas are in the characterization and the modelling of the morphological \/ mechanical \/ thermal \/ rheological properties of polymer foams, blends and composites<\/strong> based on thermoplastics and elastomers.<\/strong> His main focus is related to polymer recycling and rheology.<\/strong>
Prof. Rodrigue published over 500 peer-reviewed articles and 30 book chapters<\/strong> which ranked him in the top 0.05% of the most influential scholars in 2023 and 2024<\/strong> by ScholarGPS, as well as the top 2% in 2023 by Elsevier\/Stanford University<\/strong>.
He is the founding Editor of the Journal of Green Construction and Technology<\/strong> and currently the co-editor of two international journals<\/strong> (Current Applied Polymer Science and Recycling), as well as a member of the editorial board of five others<\/strong> (Biopolymer Applications Journal; Cellular Polymers; Elastomery, Journal of Applied Material Science and Algerian Scientific Journal Platform).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pierre Gavoille is in charge of the Gen4 and Innovative Nuclear R&D program at CEA Energy Division<\/strong>, covering the R&D activities mainly on Sodium Fast Reactors<\/strong>, as well as Molten Salt Reactors<\/strong>. The program also covers support from the CEA provided for LW-SMR and AMR Start-Ups, as well as research projects linked to the use of SMRs and AMR beyond electricity supply<\/strong> (industrial heat, hydrogen, synthetic fuels).<\/p>

Prior to this position, he was in charge, from 2018 to 2022, of the Thermal Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics Section<\/strong>, working on the simulation of nuclear reactor fluid mechanics<\/strong> under incidental and accidental conditions, both for LWR and Gen4 reactors.<\/p>

Prior to that, from 2013 to 2018, he headed the laboratory of microscopy on irradiated materials<\/strong>, alongside with managing the work on first generation fuel cladding for the ASTRID project.<\/p>

He began his career in industry<\/strong>, before to joining CEA in 2007, as a research engineer on irradiated materials.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Michael Buback was born in Nobitz\/Altenburg on Feb.16, 1945. He studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe<\/strong>, where he received his PhD on \u201cVapor pressure, density and electrical conductivity of ammonium chloride up to the critical point<\/strong>\u201d in 1972. After habilitation<\/strong> on \u201cQuantitative infrared spectroscopy up to high temperature and pressure\u201d in 1978, he was selected to be Heisenberg Fellow of the German Science Foundation<\/strong> (DFG). In 1981, he became professor of Applied Physical Chemistry at Georg-August-University of G\u00f6ttingen<\/strong> where he obtained a full professorship for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry<\/strong> in 1995 after declining offers for chairs on Technical Chemistry from Technical University of Dortmund and from University of Heidelberg<\/strong> (in conjunction with the position of a director at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe). Michael Buback published more than 380 peer-reviewed papers with more than 12500 citations and an h-index of 54.<\/strong> In recognition of his achievements he received the Dechema Award, the Bunsen-Denkmuenze, the Herman F. Mark Medal and became Member of the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences<\/strong> at Goettingen in 2000.
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Irina Smirnova Since 2008 Irina Smirnova is a Professor at the Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany. She serves as the Head of the Institute of Thermal Separation Processes and vice-president of research of the TUHH. Her research interests include aerogels, high pressure processes, thermodynamics and separation technologies. Before that, the engineer was a visiting scientist at Sogang University in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-654","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsf2026.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}