Biographical note

Dr Camiel Janssen is an associate professor at the department of Chemical Engineering of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He obtained his Master degree from Groningen University and his PhD from Delft University of Technology. After a post-doctoral fellowship at UNAM he joined the European Patent Office as an international patent examiner but returned after some time to Mexico to rejoin academia. His main lecturing interest is in transport phenomena and in process design and optimization. His research group focusses on solvent engineering, with a special emphasis on separation technologies. He develops novel solvents such as ionic liquids, biodegradable deep eutectic solvents and switchable SMART solvents, that can change from hydrophobic to hydrophilic for instantaneous liquid-liquid extractions.

Professor Léon Janssen is emeritus professor in Transport Phenomena at the University of Groningen. He is a graduate from Delft University and he has been visiting faculty at University of Delaware (USA), Harbin Institute of Technology (PRC), InstituteTechnology Bandung, Universitas Parahiangan and Universitas Sam Ratulangi (Indonesia). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Society of Arts and Sciences, an officer in the Knighthood of Orange and Nassau and a fellow of the Plastics and Rubber Institute. He was Chairman of the EFChE Working party on Non-Newtonian Fluid processing and member of the Scientific Board of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He has supervised the work of 31 PhD students at Groningen, published 163 peer reviewed journal articles and 7 scientific books. He has been member of academic assessment committees in the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia. His main research activities were on reactive extrusion, bioplastics from starch and product engineering.