Plenary Lectures
Discover below the plenary speakers of the ECTP 2026 conference. Keynote and Invited speakers coming soon!
Plenary Lectures
Professor Eric F. May
Role of Cryogenic H2, CO2 and CH4 in Decarbonised Energy Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Managing Director, Future Energy Exports CRC
Director, Gas Capture Technologies Pty Ltd.
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Eric May is Managing Director of the Future Energy Exports (FEnEx) CRC and was named the 2021 Western Australian Scientist of the Year. His research team works closely with industry, conducting projects in hydrogen liquefaction, LNG production and decarbonisation, gas separations, CCS and fluid property prediction. Eric was awarded the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year as part of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science. In 2017, he co-established Gas Capture Technologies Pty Ltd, a spin-out company for patented technologies to capture methane from coal mines, land-fill gas and other sources. Launched in 2020, the FEnEx CRC brings together over 36 industry, government and university partners with resources of $163 million to conduct industrial-scale research that supports LNG and Hydrogen exports from Australia.
Professor Gabriele Sadowski
25 years of PC-SAFT – the journey towards modeling complex molecules
TU Dortmund University, Germany
Laboratory of Thermodynamics
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Gabriele Sadowski received her PhD in physical chemistry and became Associate Professor at TU Berlin in 1992. She has been Full Professor for Thermodynamics at TU Dortmund University since 2001. She is also spokesperson for the Center for Advanced Liquid Phase Engineering Dortmund (funded with 70 million euros in 2020) and, from 2024, also Director of the Chemistry and Sustainability Research Center at the University Alliance Ruhr. She is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech and 2022 was appointed to the German Council of Science and Humanities , which advises the German government on science policy issues. Her research focuses on investigating the thermodynamic properties of complex systems, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical molecules. Her group developed the thermodynamic model PC-SAFT. She is the co-author of more than 350 scientific papers and more than 500 conference contributions in the field of chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical engineering. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation (2011) and the Michael Michelsen Prize from the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (2021).
Professor J P Martin Trusler
Made to Measure: Advancing Thermophysical Property Measurement Techniques
Imperial College London, U.K.
Department of Chemical Engineering
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Martin Trusler is Professor of Thermophysics in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. Prof. Trusler’s research interests focus on measurement and modelling of the thermophysical properties and phase behaviour of fluids, especially under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, with applications in carbon capture & storage, hydrogen infrastructure and the energy industries widely. In 2016, he was awarded the Guggenheim Medal for contributions to research in thermodynamics by the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, an Associate Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and former editor of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics. Over his research career, he has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals, supervised 35 doctoral students to completion and led numerous research projects sponsored by industry and public funding agencies. As a consultant, he has worked with leading companies on a variety of energy-industry related problems. He is currently, Co-Director of the Digital Rocks research programme at Imperial.