On Sustainable Glass Processing and Applications


Bio | CV | Publications

This major symposium is in honor of the distinguished work and lifetime achievements of Prof. Alicia Durán, a very well-known professional with deep impact in On Sustainable Glass Processing and Applications.

Alicia Durán is a Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Madrid, Spain. She received a degree in Physics, from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) and a PhD in Physics from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain.

Dr. Durán has directed 15 PhD theses, 9 International and one Extraordinary Prize UAM and more than 40 MSci theses. She has published over 270 articles in WOK/Scopus journals with more than 6900 citation and s an H index (WOK) 50 (the highest index in Spain in Science Materials, Ceramics). She has published 14 books and 14 book- chapters, and has given more than 40 international invited talks/keynotes from 2010-2022.

Prof. Durán became from as Associate Editor to co-editor in chief of International Journal of Applied Glass Science (IJAGS) in 2018, with Mario Affatigato as new editor-in-chief. The strategy included the design of special issues. In particular, Women in Glass in June 2020 that constitutes the first issue fully dedicated to women working in glass all over the world, gathering 17 papers from women working in 14 countries in a wide range of topics. The impact of this issue has been very important, taken as an example of how to promote the work of women in science and especially in glass sector. The guest editors, Kathleen Richardson, Lili Hu and Alicia Durán also reflect the goal of integrating West and East in our journal. A new special issue dedicated to FUNGLASS, the European glass project with the highest budget ever financed by EU, was published in October 2021. A special issue focused in the Future of Glass, was launched for opening the International Year of Glass 2022, and Glass and Sustainability is the new project of special issue to appear in July 2024.

The International Year of Glass 2022 (IYOG2022) was an idea born in the US in the frame of the movement announcing the arrival of the Age of Glass. The special issue of IJAGS devoted to the Glass Age published the article: “Welcome to the Glass Age” by D. Morse, J. Evenson.

Durán, as President of the International Commission on Glass (ICG), accepted the challenge of presenting the IYOG to United Nations, and getting the support of the Permanent Mission of Spain at UN in New York. She has intensively worked as chair of this initiative receiving the support of more than 2500 institutions from 96 countries of the five continents. After a long route, writing different documents and advancing the support of other countries, the IYOG2022 was finally approved by unanimity at the General Assembly of UN on May 18, 2021 with the explicit signature of 19 countries. Hundreds, thousands of activities were developed across the planet in all fields of glass: industrial fairs and congresses, courses and webinars, congresses and contests, and many art activities from the more than 450 museums and artist gathering the IYOG. Welcome to the Glass Age was published in English and Spanish, as well as itinerant exhibitions, videos and magazines.

Durán is the leader of the research group GlaSS at the Institute of Ceramic and Glass, ICV (CSIC), nominated as Excellence group of CSIC, in the first top 10% of the 1650 research groups of CSIC (http://glass.icv.csic.es/)

The general objective of the research group GlaSS is the design, processing and characterization of glasses, glass-ceramics and sol-gel materials, going from the structural features to properties (optical, mechanical, chemical, thermal, electrical, etc.) and applications.

The research lines focus on topics going from basic research up to applications in the industrial glass sector and other final users of glassy materials. The main research lines are condensed in 3 topics, financed from different sources including R&D European programme, Spanish R&D programme as well as other international projects and contracts with companies: Glasses and glass-ceramics produced by melting, Sol-gel materials for sustainable applications and Industrial collaboration: energy saving, food safety and environmental issues.

Topics connected to energy and environment research were the aim of most projects developed in the last 20 years, focused in the Glass and Sustainability. Different materials and components for fuel cells (PEMFC membranes, sealing glasses and glass-ceramics for MCFC and SOFC), solid electrolytes and electrodes for Li-batteries, low temperature sealing in solar energy devices, come together with protective and environmentally friendly anticorrosive coatings, mesostructure coatings with photocatalytic activity for abatement of water or gas pollutants, solar cells and nano glass-ceramics with photonic applications produced by melting, sol-gel and SPS. Energy saving is an important issue with different approaches, from industrial glass furnaces to solar and heat control glasses for buildings.

Glass and Sustainability were also the driving force of research and topics developed across the planet during the IYOG, including glasses in biomedicine applications, renewable energies and glass, glass in buildings and transport, decreasing CO2 emissions and foot print of glass processes, optical fibers and ICT or 5G, as well as protecting glasses and glasses in art for enhancing well-being. Education and promotion of equality are key tools to get these goals.

Prof. Durán was President of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) in 2018-2021, and Treasurer (ICG) 2002 - 2015.

She has received several Awards, including the Internacional Prize Vittorio Gottardi of ICG, Prize RAICES (ROOTS) of International Cooperation in Science and Technology, granted by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina, Guest Professor Wuhan University of Technology, China, Glass person of the Year 2019. Phoenix Award International Glass Industry, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. In 2022 she received the Prize to Research life SOCIEMAT-Spanish Chapter American Ceramic Society, the Otto Schott Award 2022, the President’s Award ICG, instituted by ICG to relevant work for the association and was nominated Honorary member of The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS
A round table discussion open to everyone interested will be organized at a specific date and time during the symposium. It will be a platform for high level representatives of various industries, technologies, and academic disciplines to freely discuss and debate all topics of this symposium, and identify positive and efficient pathways towards sustainability in industrial practices, technologies, and research.

You are cordially invited to actively participate in this symposium by submitting and presenting a paper, or by attending the round table. We look forward to meeting you in Panama, December 2023

CHAIRS

Dr. Florian Kongoli
CEO/President
FLOGEN Technologies
Canada, [Bio]

BIO of Florian Kongoli

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Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc.,(www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute
incorporated in Canada and USA that today have offices and representations in more than 15 Countries around the the world while carrying out high tech projects in more than 40 countries.
Since 2007 he is Chairman of FLOGEN STAR OUTREACH (www.flogen.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to (1) achieving sustainability through science and technology, (2) raising the profile of science and engineering in the society and (3) properly honoring scientists and engineers.
Since 2003 Dr Kongoli has been President of the Organizing Committee of the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summits (SIPS) held every year in several countries around the world with an average participation of 500 authors from academia, industry, government and the entrepreneurship world representing an average of 80 countries.
Dr Kongoli has about 25 years of rich scientific and applied technology experience through direct involvement in numerous invited engagements in all continents. He has managed, involved, or actively participated in about 200 projects, 40 types of reactors, 10 industries, in 45 countries and in 6 continents. Dr. Kongoli has published 113 books and more than 200 scientific articles. He has delivered in numerous countries around the world about 220 plenary, keynote and invited presentations as well as articles, technical reports and research presentations. He has served in many leadership positions in national and international organizations and in many Professional Award Councils such as the Industrial Achievement Award Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control. He is Editorial Board member of several International Journals.
He is an elected Honorary Member of the Lorraine Academy of Sciences and Elected Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded in 2017 the title "The Environmental Tech CEO of the year 2017" by CEO-Monthly UK magazine. He was awarded Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his contribution toward sustainable development through FLOGEN Sustainability Framework by Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic)/Faculty of Applied Informatics. He is honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro and Laureate of Gold Medal of the City of Nancy, France. In 2022 he was honored by the Congressman elect of Rio de Janeiro State, Alan Lopes, who will propose to the State Congress to adopt FLOGEN Sustainability Framework developed by Dr. Florian Kongoli in the state law for evaluating any proposed public or private project in the state. Also, in 2022 he was invited to give the Opening Sustainability Plenary Lecture at the United Nation Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 February 2022 about FLOGEN Sustainability Framework at the International Year of Glass 2022.
He has participated in business and government delegations in numerous countries accompanying Prime Ministers, Ministers and other government officials.
A more detailed biography can be found at: http://www.flogen.com/elt/pdf/Kongoli_Short-CV.pdf

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Dr. Sener Oktik
Sisecam Board Member
Sisecam
Turkey, [Bio]

BIO of Sener Oktik

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Prof. Dr. Şener Oktik graduated from Ankara University with a degree in Physics in 1976 and received his M.Eng. in Applied Physics in 1977 from the same university. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. from Durham University (UK), Department of Applied Physics and Electronics in 1982. Prof. Oktik became Associate Professor in 1986 and a full Professor in 1995. During his academic career, he has worked as a lecturer, research scientist, senior researcher and administrator, senior administrator at Durham University (UK), Lecce University (Italy), Stuttgart University (Germany), Selçuk University and Muğla University (Turkey). Prof. Oktik was the third and fourth term of President/Rector of Muğla University between 2002 and 2010. He has also worked as a senior research scientist, technologist, and senior executive in industrial research and technological development laboratories in England at BP Solar, Sunbury, Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (ICI), Paints Division Slough Research Labs, and Industrial Research Labs of Durham University (UK), Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW))(Germany) and in Turkey at Anel Group, Arıkanlı Holding and Şişecam). Prof. Oktik joined Şişecam Group as the Chief Research & Technological Development Officer (CTO) on 1st January 2012 and worked in this capacity until his retirement in March 2020. He has been a member of many NGO and occupational organizations throughout his carrier. Currently Prof. Oktik is a member of the Advisory Committee of International Commission on Glass, “ICG”, Conference on Coatings on Glass and Plastics, ”ICCG”, Society of Vacuum Coaters “SVC”, The Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (Slovakia), a member of the Scientific Committee of “European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference EU-PVSEC” and representing Turkish Physical Society at the European Physical Society (EPS). At the national level, he is the Honorary Chairman Turkish Solar Energy Industry Association, a member of steering committee of Turkish Clean Energy Foundation, a member of advisory committee to Turkish Science, Technology and Innovation Policies Council, a member of board of trustees of Sıtkı Koçman Foundation and Turkish Fundamental Sciences Research Foundation. Prof. Oktik is a member of the Board of Directors of SİSECAM (Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş) since 2020 and a senior lecturer at Kadir Has University. He is author/co-author of over 120 scientific and technical publications and inventor/co-inventor of two world patents.

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Dr. Erik Muijsenberg
Vice President
Glass Service
Czech Republic, [Bio]

BIO of Erik Muijsenberg

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Erik Muijsenberg is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Eindhoven from the Class of 1990. For the eight years following graduation, he was employed by TNO Glass group in Eindhoven focusing his efforts in furnace modeling and glass melt technology. In 1997 he became the TNO Glass Department leader.
In 1998 he became a GLASS SERVICE B.V. Managing Director, the first GLASS SERVICE subsidiary office in Maastricht, the Netherlands. After eleven years he moved to GLASS SERVICE headquarters in Czech Republic to become group Vice President. GLASS SERVICE employs over 100 engineers with offices worldwide including Czechia, Slovakia, Netherlands, Germany, UK, France, USA, China and Japan. Glass Service daughter companies are well known worldwide FlammaTec for combustion systems and FIC UK for Electric melting solutions.
In 1997 Erik was awarded the Otto Schott Award.
In 2012 he received the Adolf Dietzel Industry Award from the German Glass Society for his contribution to the development and acceptance of glass furnace modeling & optimization in the German glass industry.
He was chosen as a Fellow member by the British Glass Society in 2014.
Erik is also active Vice Chairman and past Chairman of the Technical Committee 21 - Furnace Design & Operations - of the International Commission on Glass (ICG).
As of 2016 Erik became an ICG Steering Committee member.
In 2017 he became a Phoenix Award Committee member. Since 2023 Erik is the Vice Chairman of the Phoenix Award Committee.
Erik has actively promoted Industry 4.0 smarter model based predictive furnace and forehearth control and CO2 emission reductions to the Glass Industry for over twenty years.

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Mr. Lucien Belmonte
Executive President
Brazilian Association of Glass Industries
Brazil

Dr. Delia S. Brauer
Professor of Bioactive Glasses
Friedrich Schiller U.
Germany, [Bio]

BIO of Delia S. Brauer

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Delia S. Brauer is Professor of Bioactive Glasses at the Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, University of Jena, Germany. After finishing her studies in environmental chemistry, she completed her PhD on phosphate glasses at the University of Jena. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, and Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London, UK. In 2012 she returned to Jena as a junior professor and was made a full professor in 2017. Her research focuses on degradable and highly disrupted glass systems, glass/water interaction, glass-based materials for biomedical applications and glasses as therapeutic release devices. She was awarded the Gottardi Prize of the International Commission on Glass in 2015 and was made a Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology in 2016. She is a member of Technical Committees 03 (Glass Structure and Properties), 23 (Education) and 04 (Glasses for Medicine and Biotechnology) and has acted as chair of TC04 from 2018 to 2022.

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Mr. Bertrand Cazes
Secretary General
Glass for Europe
Belgium, [Bio]

BIO of Bertrand Cazes

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Bertrand Cazes is the Secretary General of Glass for Europe, the trade association for
Europe's flat glass sector.
Bertrand is actively involved in all policy and regulatory issues affecting the flat glass sector at European level, be in terms of manufacturing, decarbonisation, energy-efficiency, sustainability and product policy. Bertrand is the industry’s chief lobbyist towards EU authorities based on his 20 years experience in interest representation.
With over 10 years at the helm of Glass for Europe, Bertrand has a strong insider knowledge of the flat glass manufacturing and glazing sector in Europe and a holistic perspective of the challenges faced by the building and automotive glass industry.
Bertrand is a graduate in political science and holds two master’s degree in the management of European Affairs from universities in Paris and London. Bertrand is a native French and speaks fluent English.

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Dr. John Parker
Professor
U. of Sheffield
UK, [Bio]

BIO of John Parker

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John Parker moved to Sheffield from the University of Cambridge in 1971, having completed a first-class MA in Natural Sciences, a PhD and a post-doctoral NERC fellowship studying aluminosilicates with incommensurate structures. At Sheffield, he has developed interests in both the optical/structural properties of glasses and the technology of bulk glass making. He is actively involved in the International Commission on Glass and is past-president of both the Society of Glass Technology and the European Society of Glass Science and Technology.

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Dr. Setsuhisa Tanabe
Professor
Kyoto U.
Japan, [Bio]

BIO of Setsuhisa Tanabe

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Setsuhisa Tanabe is a full professor at Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. He received his PhD at Department of Industrial Chemistry, Kyoto University in 1993. After working as an assistant professor, he became an associate professor in 2001 and was promoted to a full Professor in 2008 all in Kyoto University. He is the author of >250 original papers, >25 book chapters, and >40 review papers on luminescent glass and ceramic materials for upconversion lasers, optical fiber amplifier for telecommunication, LED phosphors and persistent phosphors. His h-index is 59 by Scopus. He has served as a plenary, keynote or invited speaker at more than 140 international conferences. He was the chair of Technical Committee on Photonic Glasses (TC20) of International Commission on Glass (ICG) during 2003- 2011 and was a member of Steering Committee of ICG during 2013~2020. On the occasion of UN International Year of Glass 2022, he served as the President of Japanese IYOG2022 Executive Committee in 2021~2022 as well as an International Committee member of IYOG led by Alicia Durán. He was a visiting scientist at Rutgers University, NJ, USA to work with Prof. Elias Snitzer during 1996-1997, also an invited professor at University of Rennes I, France in 2010 and 2016, and at University of Gdansk, Poland in 2019. He has been a main Editor of Journal of Luminescence since 2020 after serving as an associate Editor during 2014~2020. He is a Fellow of SPIE and ACerS

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Dr. Kerry Ward
Executive Director
Glass Manufacturing Industry Council
USA

Mrs. Urmilla Jokhu-Sowell
VP, Advocacy & Technical Services
National Glass Association
USA, [Bio]

BIO of Urmilla Jokhu-Sowell

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Urmilla Jokhu-Sowell, P.E., is the VP Advocacy and Technical Services for the National Glass Association (NGA), the largest glass and glazing trade organization in North America. Urmilla received both a bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Texas Tech University and is a registered Professional Engineer. Urmilla advocates for and promotes the use of glass in buildings and collaborates with several global organizations on developing industry standards, best practices, and technical education. She has leadership and representative positions on national and international glass-related organizations, including American Society for Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ASTM International, Glazing Industry Code Committee (GICC), and International Standards Organization (ISO).

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Mr. Vinit Kapur
Secretary
The All India Glass Manufacturers' Federation (AIGMF)
India, [Bio]

BIO of Vinit Kapur

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Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations and Bachelors of Commerce (Honours), Mr. Vinit Kapur is the Secretary of The All India Glass Manufacturers Federation (AIGMF) since January 2011.
Mr. Kapur represented as the Council Member of IYoG from India for the UN declared International Year of Glass 2022 (IYoG) under the aegis of International Commission on Glass; and India was able to deliver more than 30 IYoG events from mid-2021 till Dec 2022, mainly driven by activities involving Youth with event details available at www.aigmf.com

Prior to joining the AIGMF, Mr. Kapur worked as the Director (Coordination and Government Relations) in the Organising Committee for Commonwealth Games in New Delhi between 2007-2010.

Mr. Kapur served as the Public Diplomacy Officer in the Australia-India Council and The Japan Foundation under Australian and Japanese Governments in New Delhi between 1999-2005.

Mr. Kapur holds 28-years of expertise in Public Advocacy programs.

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