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MDPI would like to invite all recognized experts in their field to attend our Topic Workshop | Scientific Advances in STEM. The aim of this workshop is to provide a platform for scholars in disciplines related to science and engineering to discuss and contribute to the advancement of these fields.

Webinar: Topic Workshop | Scientific Advances in STEM
Date: 12/1/2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. (CET)
Register in advance for this webinar here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the workshop. The number of participants in the live session is limited, but the recording will be made available shortly afterwards. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Workshop Chairperson:

• Ana María Beltrán Custodio, University of Seville (US)

Dr. Ana M. Beltrán has a Ph.D. in material science and is currently an Associate Professor of Material Science at the University of Seville (Spain). Her scientific interests include the characterization of different materials, both at a macroscale (concerning the mechanical properties of biomaterials) and at a nanoscale, through transmission electron microscopy (structural and compositional analysis of bio-nanostructures, semiconductor, and catalysts) to understand their behavior. She has been the Guest Editor of Special Issues for the journal Metals, and she also contributed to MDPI’s first multidisciplinary topic involving the journals Metals, Polymers, Foods, Sustainability, and Sensors, from which a book was published. She is currently involved in the running of a second multidisciplinary topic entitled “Scientific Advances in STEM: Synergies to Achieve Success”.

Workshop Speakers:

• Frank Jörg Clemens, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Überlandstrasse

Dr. Frank Clemens is a Group Leader (Smart Ceramic Processing) at the Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Switzerland. His scientific and applied research belongs to the thermoplastic processing of powder-based sensors, actuators, and structural materials. His group focuses on national and international projects in this field, and he works with physicists, chemists, material scientists, and engineers to investigate activation energies on different processing steps. In addition, he has also developed new strategies for the processing of functional ceramics and soft sensor materials and structures. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and between 2010 and 2021, he was a lecturer at ZHAW (Switzerland). He has more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and patents.

• Dr. Carlos Bengoechea, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain

Prof. Dr. Carlos Bengoechea is an Associate Professor at the University of Seville, Spain, where he teaches different courses, such as Chemical Engineering or Polymeric Materials. He has wide experience in the development of applications (e.g., plastics, emulsions) that add value to by-products of the industry (e.g., soy protein, porcine plasma). Currently, he is supervising an R&D project on green superabsorbent materials for personal care applications using different by-products.

We are pleased to provide this excellent opportunity to all the brilliant researchers to propose and develop new approaches, exchange perspectives, and encourage new lines of research.

To find out more about the speakers and the program, please visit https://sciforum.net/event/SASTEM. We hope you can join us for this event.

Shun Li
MDPI Guest Editor Club
Conference Secretariat