Keynote Speakers

Dalila Hammiche is Lecturer Class “A” at Université Abderrahmane Mira – Bejaia, Algérie. She published more than 30 indexed publications, three (3) books, chapter book (Nova Science Publishers). Her research areas are in:

- Aspects of processing and structure-property relationships of polymer composites.- Composite interfaces, thermoplastic composites, and nanocomposites.

- Development of eco-composites: bio-based composites and recyclable all-polymer composites.

- Natural fiber composites, Nanocomposites, Biopolymers, Cellulose and Cellulose Nanowhiskers.

Denis Rodrigue obtained a B.Sc. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1996) in chemical engineering from Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Canada) with a specialization in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. In 1996 he moved to Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada) where he is now full professor. Since then, he has been an invited professor at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), the Technical Institute of Karlsruhe (Germany), the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), the University of Arts and Sciences of Hunan (China), the Technical University of Lodz (Poland) and the University François Rabelais of Tours (France).

His main research areas are in the characterization and the modelling of the morphological / mechanical / thermal / rheological properties of polymer foams and composites based on thermoplastics and elastomers. His main focus is related to polymer recycling and rheology. 

He is the co-editor of two international journals:

Current Applied Polymer Science Journal of Cellular Plastics and a member of the editorial board of three others:

Applied Sciences, Section Materials, Cellular Polymers, Elastomery

Pr Erchiqui, a physicist by training, holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Laval University (Canada) and has solid industrial experience within the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). He has been involved in several modeling technology development activities for NRC and its transfer to industrial partners, mainly from the US and Canada. He works in biocomposites, the characterization of materials in large deformation and modeling and optimization in bioplasturgy. His experiences have demonstrated his leadership qualities through publications, personalized invitations for conferences (France, USA, Malaysia, Japan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, etc.) or as a invited professor. In 2018, he was received by Toyota Boshoku (Japan) to present an initiative research on the development of bio-composite panels, based on hemp and thermoplastic, for automotive sector. He has also participated in international delegations: Québec scientific delegation to Japan in the field of composites (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Nagoya University and Tokyo University) and academic delegation (France and Morocco). In thermoforming modeling, he is one of the most cited researchers, according to SCOPUS, publisher Elsevier (4th). He has over 250 scientific contributions to his credit, including over 100 refereed journal articles, over 125 papers from international conferences and several book chapters. He has also published several technical and scientific reports for NRC.

Maria Paz Weisshaar completed her PhD from the University of Göttingen in Germany and postdoctoral research at the Max Plack Institute for experimental Medicine in Göttingen, Germany as well as The CNRS Institute for Molecular and cellular Biology in Strassburg, France, The University of Birmingham, Uk, University of Chicago,USA and the Tsukuba Fermentation research Institute, Japan. She is professor for Biochemistry/Pharmacogenetics/ Genetic engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and has 30 Years of experience in research management, teaching and university management. Is the CEO of two start-ups in Chile and UK in biomedical science. She has more than 30 Publications and one important Patent in USA.

Prof. Mustapha Jouiad obtained his PhD in Materials Science and his Master degree in solid state physics from University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France in 1996 and 1993 respectively. Prior Joining Laboratory of Physics and Condensed Matter (LPMC) at Université de Picardie Jules Verne, He served as professor and principal investigator in Materials Science program at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. He was the head of Advanced Materials and Multiscale Characterization Lab. He worked at very prestigious institutions such as University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and National Labs such as CNRS France and Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL). His research interests are in Functional Materials and Multiscale Characterization with applications in energy and environment. His approach allows large probing of materials structure fabricated by physical and chemical means using various characterization including analytical microscopy. The multiscale characterization provides with better correlation between the material microstructure at different scales (Micro & nano) and its respective macroscopic behavior. It gives also access to the relevant parameters influencing the material processing and its properties. The targeted achievement is to be able to predict material properties to optimize materials processing and design.